I was fine with the ribbon interface when I first encountered it with MS Word. I was in college then, and using that interface constantly. Now though, I occasi

I was fine with the ribbon interface when I first encountered it with MS Word. I was in college then, and using that interface constantly. Now though, I occasionally run into programs that I use once or twice per year that adopt Windows' ribbon interface, and yeah, it's definitely harder to find things than a drop-down menu interface would be. I have to imagine that there's also a factor of context-switching friction in mixing both icons and words. I think the old approach of "common familiar icons in toolbars, those and everything else in organized drop-down menus" was superior for this reason as well.