Visualize Whirled Peas (Galleries: Part 2 of 3)
A coninuation of Office 12 capabilities and the user interface design ...
"Yesterday, I started discussing the "gallery", which is a new control that appears throughout the Office 12 user interface. Today, I want to discuss the most obvious use of galleries in Office 12: choosing visual styles. The underlying graphics engine of Office has undergone a substantial upgrade in Office 12. If you've seen the charts and diagrams demoed online or in the PDC keynote, you've seen some of the possibilities. The quality of the graphics you can make are just dramatically better. (I find myself thinking: "is this really Office?" It's some really eye-popping stuff.) But, we knew that we'd be wasting all of these new capabilities if we didn't provide an interface to help people produce beautiful results without having to understand how many pixels they should offset a drop shadow, or where the light should precisely hit a 3D object. Hence, the gallery:" continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"Yesterday, I started discussing the "gallery", which is a new control that appears throughout the Office 12 user interface. Today, I want to discuss the most obvious use of galleries in Office 12: choosing visual styles. The underlying graphics engine of Office has undergone a substantial upgrade in Office 12. If you've seen the charts and diagrams demoed online or in the PDC keynote, you've seen some of the possibilities. The quality of the graphics you can make are just dramatically better. (I find myself thinking: "is this really Office?" It's some really eye-popping stuff.) But, we knew that we'd be wasting all of these new capabilities if we didn't provide an interface to help people produce beautiful results without having to understand how many pixels they should offset a drop shadow, or where the light should precisely hit a 3D object. Hence, the gallery:" continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
New capabilities add to the user experience.
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