Microsoft Office 2010 technical preview The version where the Office UI finally, inexorably jumps the shark?
Why I like Apple, reason #427.1: spellcheck knows “kinda”
Office 2010 screenshots emerge
Assuming this is truly what Office 2010 is going to look like, and that it’s not an internal in-progress build, I have only two thoughts:
- It used to be that Microsoft drove the ‘de-facto’ standard for UI design, and Office and the Microsoft UI guidelines pretty much set the tone for everything else on the desktop. This has waned over time, but is still true in many ways for Windows desktop software, and especially for Windows enterprise software.
- I’m really, really happy to see this, because it means that companies like ours will have work to do for years to come.
Love the mixed metaphor of Yes and Cancel.
What’s that bottom box for? Quantity? (Only later do I realize, it’s for color choice - which in this instance, is white only.)
One of the near-constants on the iPhone platform is the overall polish of the applications (with exceptions, of course). This isn’t inherent in the platform; Xcode will let you lay out anything you want, and there’s no legal mandate to make a beautiful app, but it’s just something people do. Call it craft?
So why it is that developers on other platforms, no matter how well-intended, just can’t get the subtleties of the UI, like the crowdedrightupagainsttheedge spacing on the login field here (left)? Just a few tweeks (right) and it breathes so much better on the screen.
