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I have never seen this work.
by gsich 8y ago
I have never seen this work.
- oblio 8y agoThe ribbon was built in large part based on telemetry. Say what you will, but it does it's job very well, provided you approach it with an open mind.
- eitland 8y agoYou mean later versions? Because I'm not aware they A/B tested it in the market before they launched the first one.
- ygra 8y agoThey did a lot of usability testing on the first iteration as well. They didn't test it in the market, since it didn't exist in a product yet, but they tested it. Jensen Harris [−π] has a large number of blog posts on the development and design history of that particular UI and a lot of information on why they have done things a certain way. [−π]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2008/03/13/table-of-contents/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2008/03/13/table-of...
- eitland 8y agoThe first version I can remember was amazingly bad. I remember the file menu operations being hidden behind the round logo in the upper left corner.
- gsich 8y agoI like the ribbons, at least in MS products.
- oblio 8y agoYeah, it's a tricky interface. It works best in applications with a ton of commands and it really needs a good UX team to pore over it and do user group studies. I've seen some (IMO) failed versions from smaller software vendors. The Microsoft ones are pretty good, for me at least :)