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I feel the ‘solution’ MS Word, Excel, Chrome, SQL Developer ++ have taken on this is to give the user the bare minimum that everyone need to begin with and hidd
by punnerud 7y ago
I feel the ‘solution’ MS Word, Excel, Chrome, SQL Developer ++ have taken on this is to give the user the bare minimum that everyone need to begin with and hidden all the features. This way they get the best from both worlds. The difficult part is how to group those hidden features together.
- gmueckl 7y agoDon't think about this in terms of hiding features. That isn't the goal. The task is to put them somewhere in the UI wherentheyncan be explored and discovered while not being prominent. Hiding implies that features cannot be discovered by exploring the UI, which os rarely a good thing.
- dahauns 7y agoIt might be an unpopular opinion, but IMO the MS Ribbon UI is still one of the best examples of this kind of UI (at least in a somewhat current incarnation).
- gmueckl 7y agoMy main criticism of the ribbon is how it radically changes its structure when the window is resized. This creates menus out of formerly top level elements etc. Thus, Word at half screen width is a radically different UI than at full width. Then there are these almost invisible buttons next to the bottom group labels. Some features are hidden behind those but there is no good visual indication that these buttons open dialogs related to features the group. So I am not totally convinced that they are the best in this field.