Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog

I couple of months ago I mentioned that we were working on a third color scheme for Office 2007, as well as continuing to tweak the visuals of the so-called "northwest" corner of the apps (the upper-left corner.) I was planning on waiting until we...

One of the projects our design team has been working on for the last year or so has been the development of a new suite of product icons for Office 2007. Here are the 32x32 versions of the icons which will appear in the final product: The design...

One of the many areas in which we've spent time since Beta 2 has been making working with the collapsed Ribbon a more realistic option. Since the very first public build of the new user interface, you've been able to collapse the Ribbon to just the...

On Monday, I wrote a little post with a screenshot of the third Office 2007 color scheme, Silver. I took the screenshot on Windows Vista both because that's all I had running on my home computer at the time and because I wanted to show some of the...

Last week , I wrote about some of the work we've done to make the minimized Ribbon work well with the new keyboard model. I even posted a movie showing the new feature in action if you want to see what it looks like. A few months ago as we were doing...

It's the age-old question of presenters everywhere: "Which PowerPoint slide design should I use?" I know the feeling so well of booting PowerPoint and looking through the same old 15 tired slide designs that everyone uses, knowing full well that I...

Today's Guest Writer: Rich Grutzmacher Rich Grutzmacher is a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. He helped coordinate one of the long-term, real-world studies conducted on early Office 2007 builds. This is the second in a series...

Before I write anything today, let me thank you for all of the kind birthday wishes on Thursday. The big day came and went and, surprisingly, I'm still standing. I don't say this enough, but thank you for coming back and reading what I write week after...

Today's Guest Writer: Rich Grutzmacher Today I present guest writer Rich Grutzmacher , Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. He helped coordinate one of the long-term, real-world studies conducted on early Office 2007 builds. For eight...

Today's Guest Writer: Rich Grutzmacher Rich Grutzmacher is a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. He helped coordinate one of the long-term, real-world studies conducted on early Office 2007 builds. This is the fourth in a series...

Today's Guest Writer: Rich Grutzmacher Rich Grutzmacher is a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. He helped coordinate one of the long-term, real-world studies conducted on early Office 2007 builds. This is the third in a series of...

I know I seldom do two posts in a day, but in addition to Rich's guest article , I wanted to point to a very interesting article Sander, one of our designers, wrote on the Excel blog . The article is focused around the charting experience, but he posted...

A couple of months ago I was interviewed by Shawn Murray, who is putting together a set of podcast-style interviews to help people learn more about Office 2007 and related products. These recordings are available as MP3 or Windows Media Audio (.wma) files...