For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)
Continuing Office 12 UI features ...
"Today's episode: You're standing up on stage in front of a thousand people who have come to watch you talk. The house dims, and the bright glare of stage lighting burns down on you. Nervous, with sweaty palms and shaking hands, you prepare to start your presentation. What will the audience think of you? Will they like what you have to say? Have you prepared enough? Did you expect a larger audience? Smaller? Oh geez, I hope the demos work...
Many of us have been there... up on stage, getting ready to present a PowerPoint deck. Or maybe in an important meeting with clients or potential supporters of your big idea. You're probably presenting on a laptop with a TrackPoint or a TrackPad. These mouse substitutes are hard enough to use with great precision in general; when nervous, they can be almost impossible to use.
All of these thoughts are going through your head, your hands are shaking, it's tough enough to use a TrackPad anyway... and PowerPoint makes you click a tiny 12x12 button in the lower-left hand corner of the screen to start the presentation.
This is one of the only buttons in Office people regularly use under high stress, and it's arguably the smallest, hardest to click button on the screen." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"Today's episode: You're standing up on stage in front of a thousand people who have come to watch you talk. The house dims, and the bright glare of stage lighting burns down on you. Nervous, with sweaty palms and shaking hands, you prepare to start your presentation. What will the audience think of you? Will they like what you have to say? Have you prepared enough? Did you expect a larger audience? Smaller? Oh geez, I hope the demos work...
Many of us have been there... up on stage, getting ready to present a PowerPoint deck. Or maybe in an important meeting with clients or potential supporters of your big idea. You're probably presenting on a laptop with a TrackPoint or a TrackPad. These mouse substitutes are hard enough to use with great precision in general; when nervous, they can be almost impossible to use.
All of these thoughts are going through your head, your hands are shaking, it's tough enough to use a TrackPad anyway... and PowerPoint makes you click a tiny 12x12 button in the lower-left hand corner of the screen to start the presentation.
This is one of the only buttons in Office people regularly use under high stress, and it's arguably the smallest, hardest to click button on the screen." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
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