Hi Wolfgang, all, On 30 January 2013 18:37, Wolfgang Keller <felip...@gmx.net> wrote: > MS has always been at the antipode of ergonomics. And they keep moving > in the *wrong* direction. "Ribbons" as well as the totally ridiculous > Windows 8 GUI - try to accomplish *any* work with it, you'll rather end > up tossing the screen through the closed window of your office - are > just the latest cerebral flatulances emanating from their "product > managers' "brains".
Wow, you're noticing you're quite harsh there, right? I don't think you're entirely justified here: Microsoft do a lot of user testing and research, even if their execution is occasionally lacking a bit (as with Office 2007 and even more so with Windows 8). Also, the concepts behind the Ribbons and the Metro/"Windows-8-style" are completely different – the former shows everything at once to ease creation of content, the latter tries to hide everything that would distract from consuming content. So your observation that you can't really work with Windows 8 actually means that its designers have mostly reached their goal. It's of course debatable if that's a useful goal – especially considering how the Windows–Office tandem used to be Microsoft's moneymaker. Note how Office is still stuck on the desktop of Windows 8 (save for One Note). > *Never* take products made by managed corporations as examples to > follow. I am not sure this attitude helps. > Use *exclusively* whitespace to group objects. That's probably a good suggestion, but where do we take all that white space from? Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
