Scott,
that's funny, we had a meeting with our MS TAM (tech. account mgr) for our
MS support contract.
His presentation was made in Office 12 beta (never crashed) - and his
words struck me as quite
funny - MS imposes new products on the poor MS employees PC - they should
eat their own dog
food he said was the inhouse policy...
We just saw powerpoint's UI briefly before the presentation he made. The
UI is definitely simpler
although some things seemed out of place (tabs in toolbars for example).
My feeling remains the same, it was nothing we couldn't do in rev ;)
Menus with a WinXP or newer UI do need a custom stack menu approach but it
is not impossible.
What is missing in rev is making that menu stack API a bit more
interactive or rev-event capable
so we can add revolutionaries' intelligence ;)
just a thought
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Tonight the local CHI meeting, I listened to a presentation by Jensen
Harris, a key designer behind the new Microsoft Office user interface.
He
presented a history of Word and Office and how it evolved into Office
2003,
and then went into a live demo of the new office apps sporting the
ribbon
interface and contextual interaction. Mr. Harris acknowledged they (MS)
are
taking a risk in changing the UI/interaction of the apps. And it was
great
to hear someone so close to the project speak in detail about how it's
supposed to work and why they chose to do what they're doing.
A couple of things jumped out at me while watching the presentation:
1) the Runtime guys were on a similar track with their
somewhat-context-sensitive inspector thing (but there are way too many
sub-level choices to be made in the palette)
2) the fact that Rev developers can create rich menus by using stacks
would
seem to bode well for a future of making apps that run alongside the
Office
experience (regardless of how valid you think MS's UI direction is)
In the last few minutes of his talk, Mr. Harris demoed a UI treatment
that I
personally find very interesting and appealing: a floating contextual
palette of sorts. Initially it comes up ghosted (translucent),
positioned
out of the way from the item you are editing; the palette gets more
opaque
as you mouse toward it, and becomes more transparent as you mouse away
from
it. Pretty cool stuff.
There were a lot of good points made, and one that was quite refreshing
to
hear:
Remove to simplify.
I wrote down a bunch of points that seemed like they might worth
posting,
but Mr. Harris also has a blog where you can read his personal comments
about development of the project: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia Design
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