Dan ,
> Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox newsletter today is about the new "results > oriented user experience" being developed by Microsoft for its > bloated Office product line. > > I provide my thoughts and links at http://www.eclecticity.com/. > 3c65da4c in case anyone cares or wants to discuss it there. > Here's a quote from J. Nielsen's article (BTW the link you provide on your blog is wrong) : "The new interface displays galleries of possible end-states, each of which combine many formatting operations. From this gallery, you select the complete look of your target -- say an org chart or an entire document -- and watch it change shape as you mouse over the alternatives in the gallery. The interaction paradigm has been reversed; it's now What You Get Is What You See, or WYGIWYS." and my first reaction to this is : God ! this is one of most scary things I ever came across ! It might not be so important in case of a letter or a spreadsheet, but in general it means that users we'll have to chose from a set of PRE-DEFINED shapes... and who will pre-design those ? Microsoft ? Yikes !!!! Now we have WYGIWWAYTCF (what you get is what we allow you to choose from)... and furthermore, what if you want to design something totally new from scratch ? I might be overreacting a bit, but I'm sure there are plenty of different & more promising directions to explore for future UIs... JB _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
