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Friday, March 10, 2006

The new look for Office 2007

Office2007RibbonThe final version of the new look for Office 2007 was revealed yesterday (apparently at Cebit). Jensen Harris has some good screenshots in his blog, which is also has some other great UI-related stuff in it.

I really like the Office 2007 ribbon. We’ve been looking at how it could be used in some of our projects, and I have to say it does open up some really interesting ways for designing UI:s, especially if the user has a lot of tasks he can perform. Office has always been leading the way for Windows application UI design, sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad way (remember Clippy?), and it seems like that is set to continue.

Excel2007I’m dying to try out the new Office. I on purpose skipped on the Beta 1 even though I had a chance to get it after PDC, but now I’m really looking forward to Beta 2. All of the screenshots I’ve seen look awesome, and the new visual styles for stuff is really hot. Some of the new stuff in Excel seem to rock as well. Screenshot included on the right.

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