Posts Tagged ‘office’
How Microsoft Developed Office’s Ribbon UI
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
I started watching this presentation earlier this afternoon and couldn’t stop watching. A member of the Office 2007 design team, Jensen Harris, spends about an hour-and-a-half discussing how Microsoft build Office 2007, epecially the “Ribbon” user interface paradigm.
If you liked the recent documentary, Helvetica, if you’re into design, usability, UI, etc., you’re going to love this presentation. Which means, 99% of you will probably be better off skipping this link entirely.
Start watching here, and click on the video to keep watching (it’s divided into 10 parts).
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Category business, design, technology | Tags: Tags: design, Microsoft, office, presentation, UI, usability,
Day One Hundred Fifty Six | Temporary Setup
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
My laptop’s dying and I have to wait two weeks before the new one I bought gets here, so I’m bringing my “vintage” 2005 desktop to work with for now. I rushed to set it up, so everything is the opposite of organized, or modern, or sparse, or any of the things I normally try to shoot for when setting anything up.
I couldn’t even upload the photos I shot today with the camera because my desktop is in that pristine, just-installed state and I haven’t gotten around to installing the software I need for work yet… the whole “laptop power cable frying” thing happened late enough in the evening that I decided to save this mess for tomorrow.
Thank goodness for the fact that my G1 auto-uploads my photos to Flickr, though. Made it so that I can post to Project 365 even during the most dire moments.
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Category Project 365, photography, technology | Tags: Tags: computer, office,