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It did. I couldn't find anything before the ribbon bar, frankly, and using tools took significantly more time because I had to search for them in overly long me
by vertex-four 12y ago
It did. I couldn't find anything before the ribbon bar, frankly, and using tools took significantly more time because I had to search for them in overly long menus, or even submenus. Now they're mostly laid out directly in front of me, logically and visually ordered. I don't feel that menus are a good UI to anything.
It would seem that most UX people now agree with me, as traditional menu bars have been de-emphasised across nearly all the apps I use. Word was the only app which required me to delve into the menus in common use.
Why do you think the ribbon bar has a worse UX than a menu bar?
- quink 12y agoDon't you know that change frightens and confuses people? For anyone for who changes do just that, check this out, which I think is the most impressive example of data-driven UI design ever documented even remotely this well: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/table-of-contents.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/table-of-... I love the ribbon. If you don't, try one of two things. One, try double-clicking on one of the headers - it'll make the ribbon hide unless you click it. This makes it effectively work like the old menus, except more horizontal and graphical instead of vertical. The second is to scroll your mouse wheel while hovering over the ribbon.
- jimmaswell 12y agoChange does frighten and confuse people which is why the principle of least surprise is part of the human interface guidelines, but nobody seems to care about that anymore.
- jimmaswell 12y agoI don't know if I'd really say it's worse, except for that it breaks the standard expectation and user interfaces are supposed to follow a uniform design on one environment, but it's a change and I prefer interfaces not to change.