User interface design is tough work. It's a little science, a dash of art and lots of guesswork--all of which Microsoft applied to Office 2007's "ribbon."
Joe Wilcox writes:Last week, I spoke with Julie Larson-Green, who joined Microsoft in 1993 and has worked on user-interface design for her career there. Larson-Green played a pivotal role in the development of the new Office user interface, which main element is the ribbon. Now as corporate vice president for Windows Experience Program Management, she is responsible for taking some of the concepts introduced in Office 2007 and applying them to Windows.
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