I Am Your Density
Making the Office 12 interface look simple ...
"A comment we've heard again and again about the Office 12 interface after people use it or see it demoed live is: "wow, it's so much better than I imagined just by seeing the screenshots." Several people made that comment to me once again after my talk at PARC Tuesday night, and I wanted to write down some thoughts on the subject.
Fundamentally, there's a kind of UI that is built with great screenshots in mind. Generally including big, shiny buttons with copious whitespace on all sides, these interfaces look extremely simple and easy-to-use in "back-of-the-box" marketing screenshots. The screenshot-optimized interface is generally low-density, with only a few controls on the screen at once.
We've definitely thought about this in designing boxshots for marketing materials in past releases of Office. The picture we show on the back of the box is what the product looks like the first time you run it. But one of the problems with the current Office user interface is that it tends to degrade over time--toolbars pop up over your document and never go away, things get accidentally moved, Task Panes pop up automatically, etc. When we do site visits, we often see Office screens that look more like the picture below than the one on the back of the box." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"A comment we've heard again and again about the Office 12 interface after people use it or see it demoed live is: "wow, it's so much better than I imagined just by seeing the screenshots." Several people made that comment to me once again after my talk at PARC Tuesday night, and I wanted to write down some thoughts on the subject.
Fundamentally, there's a kind of UI that is built with great screenshots in mind. Generally including big, shiny buttons with copious whitespace on all sides, these interfaces look extremely simple and easy-to-use in "back-of-the-box" marketing screenshots. The screenshot-optimized interface is generally low-density, with only a few controls on the screen at once.
We've definitely thought about this in designing boxshots for marketing materials in past releases of Office. The picture we show on the back of the box is what the product looks like the first time you run it. But one of the problems with the current Office user interface is that it tends to degrade over time--toolbars pop up over your document and never go away, things get accidentally moved, Task Panes pop up automatically, etc. When we do site visits, we often see Office screens that look more like the picture below than the one on the back of the box." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
Office 12 Ribbon Density.
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