The Story of the Ribbon
From MIX 08 | Sunday, April 06, 2008
Farewell, menus and toolbars! Come hear the behind-the-scenes story of how the 2007 Office Ribbon user interface was imagined, designed, and validated. See never-before-shown early prototypes, hear about mistakes we learned from during the design process, and find out the principles of user experience design we used each step of the way in creating the first totally new user interface for Office.
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Jensen HarrisJensen Harris is the Group Program Manager of the Microsoft Office User Experience team and was one of the key designers behind the new Ribbon user interface introduced in Office 2007. Jensen joined Microsoft in 1998, and he has been focused on the overall UI model for Microsoft Office since late 2003. Prior to working at Microsoft, Jensen graduated with degrees in music composition from Yale University and Interlochen Arts Academy. He is the author of widely-used software, including the cross-platform, distributed caller ID system YAC. He publishes his thoughts on software design on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh.
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