Why is it called the Ribbon?
How a name was selected during the the development of Outlook 2003 ...
"Because you can never predict what name will end up sticking.
Back when my team was working on the UI redesign of Outlook 2003, one of the areas we were designing was what marketing later named the "Navigation Pane." But official feature naming happens late in the product cycle (usually after Beta 1), and so there's always some internal name that sticks around long after the official name comes into use.
When we were working on the feature list for Outlook 2003, the line item that became the Navigation Pane was called "Combined Outlook Bar and Folder List." Fortunately, a member of my team had the foresight to realize that it was a crappy name to have to live with for 2 years. He suggested that we name it the "WunderBar' instead. That worked out great because it was a snappy name, easy to say, it has positive connotations (Wonder) and it was funny because we had a large number of native German speakers on the team at the time. Later on, someone found a WunderBar candy bar and it also turned out that the ketchup dispensers in the cafeteria were called the "Wunder-Bar." All the better. Even today, many people internally still call the Navigation Pane by its original name and all of the code still refers to it as such.
So where did "Ribbon" come from?" continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"Because you can never predict what name will end up sticking.
Back when my team was working on the UI redesign of Outlook 2003, one of the areas we were designing was what marketing later named the "Navigation Pane." But official feature naming happens late in the product cycle (usually after Beta 1), and so there's always some internal name that sticks around long after the official name comes into use.
When we were working on the feature list for Outlook 2003, the line item that became the Navigation Pane was called "Combined Outlook Bar and Folder List." Fortunately, a member of my team had the foresight to realize that it was a crappy name to have to live with for 2 years. He suggested that we name it the "WunderBar' instead. That worked out great because it was a snappy name, easy to say, it has positive connotations (Wonder) and it was funny because we had a large number of native German speakers on the team at the time. Later on, someone found a WunderBar candy bar and it also turned out that the ketchup dispensers in the cafeteria were called the "Wunder-Bar." All the better. Even today, many people internally still call the Navigation Pane by its original name and all of the code still refers to it as such.
So where did "Ribbon" come from?" continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
Outlook 2003.
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