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I don’t know how they come up with the numbers but I still think that menus and toolbars were much more discoverable and faster to use than the ribbon :)
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I don’t know how they come up with the numbers but I still think that menus and toolbars were much more discoverable and faster to use than the ribbon :)
- oblio 8y agoQED. I rest my case :) https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2005/10/31/inside-deep-thought-why-the-ui-part-6-2/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2005/10/31/inside-d...
- lozenge 8y agoYes, I often open a document and decide I want to use a Tool. ;) https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2006/01/31/flea-market-of-functionality/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2006/01/31/flea-mar...
- int_19h 8y agoMore importantly for power users, they were much more customizable.
- oblio 8y agoThey checked that and power users didn't customize that much. There's a lot of studies that show that power users don't customize, since customizations are not portable across PCs/systems in general. I wasn't kidding when I said they went through a lot of numbers while designing the ribbon (I read the whole blog archive at one point). On top of that, the new UI is way more discoverable for new and intermediate users. And at the end of the day, beginners are let's say 10% of the users, intermediate users at various levels are probably something like 85% and power users are probably only 5% ;)
- velosol 8y agoPower users tended to use shortcut keys which are STILL (Office 2016) supported. Want to add an image from a file? Alt, I, P, F and you have a file picker on your screen ready to go.