Comments on: What are they thinking?

By: sw

sw — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:40:06 +0000

1,2 got me, I could care less about 2, but 1 is truly scary.
3-5 they’re tear off menubars. I suspect the difference between them is whether or not the Icons are large or small, or text, and how large they were sized, the downarrows probably signify that there are more items in that tearoff. You can get somewhat of a similar effect in Word right now.
6-8 this is a standard outlook XP message style, the light blue denotes the title/header area, and the buttons and scrollbars are obviously XP.

This looks like an Outlook XP with Office Vista (Word) screenshot (Outlook can use a variety of Word to edit email), but that’s just what I think.

From the look of the File Menu, it looks like they are moving to where the Menus and Menu Bars are the same, and can be replaced and moved around at will. You can see a little of it already in Windows Media Player 10.

-sw

By: The Warne Account » Too many cooks spoil the office?

The Warne Account » Too many cooks spoil the office? — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:28:59 +0000

[…] easier, they’ve got it badly, badly wrong. Neb at Fury and Frost has published his analysis of the eight - count them, eight - different interface styles used in this one dialogue box. […]

By: mim

mim — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:14:47 +0000

Geeeez, look at the size of those icons! That’s horrifying! I hope there’s a details view that they’re not showing me. I mean for Vista.

For Office 12, well, it’s not finalized, I know, but how did there get to be ANY version with that ugly button?! That one at least jumps out super fast at a glance:p

By: neb

neb — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:52:41 +0000

We can do this post again when this supposed “final UI” is released. Regardless, I’ll bet it won’t look like Vista at all.
http://news.com.com/2300-1016_3-5805994-1.html

By: jacob

jacob — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:26:38 +0000

I believe this is just a mockup, and the final interface elements will be redrawn. They want people to focus on the locations of buttons, etc. but not their appearance.

By: neb

neb — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:01:24 +0000

Don’t masquerade as neb :)

By: jack

jack — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:50:22 +0000

Typical microsoft product. Too many cooks…too little original ideas. The design is probably consistant with their programming. Mac people like to get from point A to point in the fewest amount of steps. Pc people like to complicate things, so that even the simplest tasks have at least one or two extra steps.

By: neb

neb — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:26:11 +0000

It’s not final. This is beta.

By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Vista’s tutti-frutti interface design

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:40:12 +0000

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Vista’s tutti-frutti interface design

Fire and Fury carries a screenshot of a compose window (the new Outlook?) from Office 12. The author has gone over it and highl […]

By: gchavez

gchavez — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:12:02 +0000

Variety is the spice of life!

By: neb

neb — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:09:16 +0000

I never thought of it like that. The Toolbar BU demands 20% more pixels!

By: thenobot

thenobot — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:56:09 +0000

The ratio of pixels dedicated to “getting work done” vs. “interface adornments and empty space” is really really low too.

It’s as if there is the “Toolbar BU”, the “Scrollbar BU”, the “New Menus BU, and the “Diagonal Plus Sign BU” all with competing Senior Vice Presidents vying for a feeling of importance or imapact on the product.

Give me small groups broadly skilled developers or give me death!