The size of the Ribbon, screen real estate, ribbon scaling and minimization

• For Sale By Owner
• Scaling Up, Scaling Down
• A Disappearing Act
• The Biggest Loser
• The Size Of Things
• Taking the Minimized Ribbon to the Max
• Nice for Mice: Menu Tabs

Migrating to Office 2007

• Tools for the Transition
• Welcome to the New User Interface
• You Mean I Don’t Need To Retrain Everybody? (Real People Study, Part 2)

UI Themes

• Beauty and the Geek
• Black and Blue
• March Madness
• Silver Bullet
• Office 2007 Silver on Windows XP Silver
• Which Color When? (Part 1)
• Which Color When? (Part 2)

Keyboard control of the Ribbon

• Stroking the Keys in Office 12
• The Keyboard At Your Command
• Which Letter Is Better?
• Odds, Ends, Shortcuts, and Accelerators
• An Unintentional Week of Keyboard
• Verkl?rte Macht: Keyboard Revisited
• A Numbers Game

New fonts for Office 2007

• Making the Letters Better
• I Guess No One Cares About Fonts
• New Fonts For Documents

Customizing Office 2007 (Add-ins, RibbonX)
Note that most examples shown in the following posts do not work in B2TR or the RTM version.

• Let’s Talk About Customization
• It All Adds Up
• Because You Want To, Not Because You Have To
• Hello World, For Real
• Good Service for Add-ins
• Hollywood Meets Office Add-ins
• RibbonX Control Type Tour, Part 1
• RibbonX Control Type Tour, Part 2
• Finding a New Purpose
• RibbonX Control Type Tour, Part 3
• RibbonX Resources
• Ribbon Extensibility: A VBA Sample
• RibbonX Updates for B2TR
• Final Schema for RibbonX-based Solutions

From first sketches to the final design

• Be Willing To Be Wrong
• Formatting: An Act In Three Plays
• Thrown For a Loop
• Beta 1-derful: The ‘Top 30′ List
• Fast At Any Speed
• The Feature Bob Invented
• The Expert Mode Misadventure
• The Long Road to Contextual Tabs
• Picture This: A New Look For Office
• There’s No Place Like Home
• Drawn Together
• Choosing the Contextual Colors
• The Printer is Being Electrocuted!
• Get Your Office 2007 Beta 2 Today!
• Are We There Yet?
• The Spelling Check is Complete
• Iterative Design Process Applied to Charting (links to Meet Sander Viegers, Excel User Experience Designer)
• Evolution of the PowerPoint Home Tab
• Reality Check
• Beta 2 Technical Refresh Available Tomorrow
• Beta 2 Technical Refresh Available Now
• Office 2007 Released to Manufacturing

Design Tenets

• Most People Are Not Trained In Geology
• I Am Your Density
• The End of Personalized Menus
• The Myth of Ideal Organization
• Flea Market of Functionality
• Going Gray
• Set In Our Ways?
• Not So Set In Our Ways After All
• Which menu items get icons?
• Breathing New Life Into Old Features
• Catching the Plane

Design Ponderings

• The Importance Of Labels
• Help Is For Experts
• The 50/50 Rule
• Designing Against a Degrading Experience
• Giving You Fitts

An inside look into UI design, development and testing at Microsoft

• More Than Just the Two-Way Mirror
• Usability Redux
• 1000 Card Pick-Up
• Paper Prototypes
• The Myth of the Orange Dot
• Quality Is Usability
• Obsession to Detail
• Measuring Results
• Prototyping With PowerPoint
• Usability Stockholm Syndrome
• The Wall of Ribbons
• Tell Us What You Think About Office 2007 Beta 2
• Where do the Smiles go?
• Usability: Art and Science
• Real People Doing Real Work with Office 2007 (Part 1)
• You Mean I Don’t Need To Retrain Everybody? (Real People Study, Part 2)
• Putting the Feedback to Work (Real People Study, Part 3)
• Computers Can Do That? (Real People Study, Part 4)

Office Themes

• Office Themes: Getting Documents To Sing One (Beautiful) Song
• The Elements of Office Style
• Variations on a Theme by Office

New things in Office 12 involving the new UI

• Cover Pages: Cool Things In Office 12 (Part 1)
• For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)
• Know Your ABC’s (Office 12 Coolness, Part 3)
• Math On Demand (Office 12 Coolness, Part 4)
• Symbolism (Office 12 Coolness, Part 5)
• A Better Box Of Crayons
• Drop Me A Line (Office 12 Coolness, Part 6)
• It’s Gonna Be A Hot Summer
• Don’t Forget To Check Your Filters
• Double Feature
• Every Which Way But Loose
• No Longer Spellbound
• The 96,000 New PowerPoint Slide Designs
• Things of Beauty

Miscellaneous

• Learning From the MVPs
• Decoding Office Build Numbers
• Thanksgiving on a Wednesday
• Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System
• Icon Explosion
• Try Office 2007 Without Installing It
• New Product Icons for Office 2007
• Jensen’s index to his blog

The Office 2007 UI team

• Hello World
• It Takes a Village
• It’s the Reason for Being

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