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Ribbon may have been a bad idea, but MS claimed they did a bunch of UX research around it. Why is the standard menu metaphor better? Hunting through a hundred m
by hopler 8y ago
Ribbon may have been a bad idea, but MS claimed they did a bunch of UX research around it. Why is the standard menu metaphor better? Hunting through a hundred menu items whose names I don't need is a pain, especially if I don't have years of experience learning the options.
- vbezhenar 8y agoBut ribbon does not present those hundred items in a better way. It just presents most used items and rest are gone to some dark place. And those most used items already were present on toolbars.
- wvenable 8y agoEvery option that was on the menu is in the ribbon, there is no dark place. In fact, the ribbon probably surfaces even more options.
- ghaff 8y agoI saw a presentation at Mix once where they went through the redesign process in detail. For myself, and many others, the end result wasn’t great—and not only because it was different—but there was study behind it.