Usability: Art and Science

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Mark Mannors — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:17:20 GMT

Good to see you back writing regularily again, Jensen! As usual, very interesting stuff. Keep it up!

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Carlos B — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:52:10 GMT

Yeah, thanks for coming back!

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Rad Beltron — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:56:55 GMT

Ribbons? ...what useless bloatware ideas will M$ come up with next, and try to put a positive propaganda spin on? Nevermind... I don't want to know :P

Usability: Art and Science

Johan Roos — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:10:48 GMT

Just being curious:

The user interface usability testing must have been both a fascinating and an enormous project. How many experimental subjects did you have to bring to the labs? I suppose one test subject could only be used once?

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Francis — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:15:37 GMT

Fascinating! I love this blog.

I am surprised by the F10-pressing deus ex machina. Doesn't MS have a general UI testing tool? Perhaps a debugger-like tool with timers, watches, and event triggers?

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Bálint Kátay — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:46:09 GMT

I have a problem with the Outlook's message editor's ribbon: If you author a new massage or reply and you use the ribbon to access advanced (ex. formatting) features, than when you finish working and try to send the message, you try to click to the leftmost icon by instinct. Unfortunately there well not be the send button, you have to click to the Home ribbon, to reveal the send button.

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Stevbe — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:56:50 GMT

<It turns out that moving group labels to the bottom of each group in the Ribbon>

and the lable for my custom menu in Access2007 upgraded from 2003 ... "AddIns" ... nope ... that ain't it, it really is the menu for the app and I don't need any other. The group breaks ( | ) were removed and in general this looks like crap. While I am sure I can program up some nifty magic for custom ribbons this is a much longer process than drag-n-drop, property setting in 2003. 2007 takes a boat load more work and reduces the RAD nature of Office development.

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Judas — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:03:55 GMT

Same thing that happens to Bálint Kátay happens to me in outlook...a fix is necessary. Gñad to see you writing again jensen.

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