Table of Contents
Here's a categorized Table of Contents to help you discover posts you might find interesting or relevant.
If you're new here, I'd recommend that you start reading at the top.
Why a New UI for Office 2007?
- The Why of the New UI (Part 1)
- Ye Olde Museum Of Office Past (Why the UI, Part 2)
- Combating the Perception of Bloat (Why the UI, Part 3)
- New Rectangles to the Rescue? (Why the UI, Part 4)
- Tipping the Scale (Why the UI, Part 5)
- Inside Deep Thought (Why the UI, Part 6)
- No Distaste for Paste (Why the UI, Part 7)
- Grading On the Curve (Why the UI, Part 8)
Presentations
Overview of the New UI
- Enter the Ribbon
- What programs get the new Office UI?
- Mythbusters: The Office 12 New UI
- Office 12 New UI: The Cat's Out
- Why is it called the Ribbon?
- Outlook and the Ribbon
- Need Some Help with That?
- Through the Looking Glass
- Where Did That Feature Go?
- Running With the Popular Crowd
- Accessibility Begets Usability
Ribbon UI Elements
- I'm In Louvre! (Galleries: Part 1 of 3)
- Visualize Whirled Peas (Galleries: Part 2 of 3)
- Results-Oriented Design (Galleries: Part 3 of 3)
- It's All About Context
- Saddle Up to the MiniBar
- You'll Know It When You See It
- Super Tooltips
- Dialog Launchers
- A Separate Piece
- Rich Menus
- The Future of Task Panes
- Adding Groups to the Quick Access Toolbar
- Lingering Around
- Obscure Options, Meet Super Tooltips
- About About
- You Windows 3.1 Lovers!
- Introducing the Command Well
- Dipping Into the Well
- Recently Used Documents
- The Quick Customize Menu
- A Brief History of the Status Bar
- Status Bar Update
- Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
The Size of the Ribbon, Screen Real-Estate, Ribbon Scaling, and Minimization
- For Sale By Owner
- Scaling Up, Scaling Down
- A Disappearing Act
- The Biggest Loser
- The Size Of Things
- Taking the Minimized Ribbon to the Max
- Nice for Mice: Menu Tabs
Migrating to Office 2007
- Tools for the Transition
- Welcome to the New User Interface
- You Mean I Don't Need To Retrain Everybody? (Real People Study, Part 2)
UI Themes and Visuals
- Beauty and the Geek
- Black and Blue
- March Madness
- Silver Bullet
- Office 2007 Silver on Windows XP Silver
- Which Color When? (Part 1)
- Which Color When? (Part 2)
Keyboard Control of the Ribbon
- Stroking the Keys in Office 12
- The Keyboard At Your Command
- Which Letter Is Better?
- Odds, Ends, Shortcuts, and Accelerators
- An Unintentional Week of Keyboard
- Verklärte Macht: Keyboard Revisited
- A Numbers Game
New Fonts for Office 2007
Customizing Office 2007
From First Sketches to the Final Design
- Be Willing To Be Wrong
- Formatting: An Act In Three Plays
- Thrown For a Loop
- Beta 1-derful: The 'Top 30' List
- Fast At Any Speed
- The Feature Bob Invented
- The Expert Mode Misadventure
- The Long Road to Contextual Tabs
- Picture This: A New Look For Office
- There's No Place Like Home
- Drawn Together
- Choosing the Contextual Colors
- The Printer is Being Electrocuted!
- Get Your Office 2007 Beta 2 Today!
- Are We There Yet?
- The Spelling Check is Complete
- Iterative Design Process Applied to Charting
- Evolution of the PowerPoint Home Tab
- Reality Check
- Beta 2 Technical Refresh Available Tomorrow
- Beta 2 Technical Refresh Available Now
- Office 2007 Released to Manufacturing
Design Tenets
- Most People Are Not Trained In Geology
- I Am Your Density
- The End of Personalized Menus
- The Myth of Ideal Organization
- Flea Market of Functionality
- Going Gray
- Set In Our Ways?
- Not So Set In Our Ways After All
- Which menu items get icons?
- Breathing New Life Into Old Features
- Catching the Plane
Design Ponderings
- The Importance Of Labels
- Help Is For Experts
- The 50/50 Rule
- Designing Against a Degrading Experience
- Giving You Fitts
An Inside Look Into UI Design, Usability, Development and Testing at Microsoft
- More Than Just the Two-Way Mirror
- Usability Redux
- 1000 Card Pick-Up
- Paper Prototypes
- The Myth of the Orange Dot
- Quality Is Usability
- Obsession to Detail
- Measuring Results
- Prototyping With PowerPoint
- Usability Stockholm Syndrome
- The Wall of Ribbons
- Tell Us What You Think About Office 2007 Beta 2
- Where do the Smiles go?
- Usability: Art and Science
- Real People Doing Real Work with Office 2007 (Part 1)
- You Mean I Don't Need To Retrain Everybody? (Real People Study, Part 2)
- Putting the Feedback to Work (Real People Study, Part 3)
- Computers Can Do That? (Real People Study, Part 4)
Office Themes
- Office Themes: Getting Documents To Sing One (Beautiful) Song
- The Elements of Office Style
- Variations on a Theme by Office
New Features in Office 2007 Involving the New UI
- Cover Pages: Cool Things In Office 12 (Part 1)
- For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)
- Know Your ABC's (Office 12 Coolness, Part 3)
- Math On Demand (Office 12 Coolness, Part 4)
- Symbolism (Office 12 Coolness, Part 5)
- A Better Box Of Crayons
- Drop Me A Line (Office 12 Coolness, Part 6)
- It's Gonna Be A Hot Summer
- Don't Forget To Check Your Filters
- Double Feature
- Every Which Way But Loose
- No Longer Spellbound
- The 96,000 New PowerPoint Slide Designs
- Things of Beauty
Miscellaneous
- Learning From the MVPs
- Decoding Office Build Numbers
- Thanksgiving on a Wednesday
- Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System
- Icon Explosion
- Try Office 2007 Without Installing It
- New Product Icons for Office 2007
The Office 2007 UI team