Victor reviews the Ribbon. The Ribbon is one part menu bar and one part toolbar, a formula for simpler, faster access to commands across the Office suite of applications.
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06/29/08 03:28
I've only used Office 2007 a bit, and I found the ribbon to be much harder to adapt to than I think was really necessary. The main problem is that they hid the file menu. The weird Office icon in the upper left corner is actually the file menu, but it doesn't really look clickable. It looks like a banner ad more than anything else. It took me 15 minutes to figure out where the "print" command was hidden because of this.
07/02/08 13:57
I can only imagine they figured it would be hard the first few times but, as it's the most frequent thing we use, we'll inevitably memorize that.
The iPod has no on/off or volume labels and gets away with it. I guess Microsoft wants to be cool too :)
You can learn a lot about it from the designer's perspective here
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Victor Lombardi