Posts tagged with “word”
Worst. Logo. Ever.
And still no support for OpenDocument, a ratified ISO standard since 2006, but proudly supporting Word’s de facto .doc format and still using another new proprietary format? Shame on you Apple.
When interface design attacks
A friend pointed me in the direction of this blog entry as a demonstration that Microsoft’s UI designers are moving in the right direction. To a point I agree, it certainly looks nicer than Windows FP even if we ignore the worrying similarities to a deviantArt hax0r’s Mac skin for Windows. What’s actually bothering me here though is the usability. This interface uses what I call “secret tabs”, notice the titles of the un-selected tabs just floating in mid air with no indication as to what they actually are. You don’t know that’s a tab until you click on it, by which time it’s too late. It might turn out to be the “erase my harddrive” button, or a goatse hyperlink.
Considering all the freely available resource material on how to make an application GUI work for the user, this is well slack.