Office 12 User Interface Blog 26Sep05

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Jensen Harris started a webblog about the user interface of the new Office 12. He is working on the Microsoft Office "user experience" team.

"My name is Jensen Harris and I work on the Microsoft Office 'user experience' team. Our team is responsible for the overall interaction and visual design of the programs that ship in Office. Although we work very closely with the individual application teams (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.) to help solve difficult usability issues specific to those programs, our key responsibility is to design and develop the UI framework that people use to interact with all of Office. Some of the innovations that came from this team before my time working on it included red-squiggle spell checking in Office 95, command bars in Office 97, and Task Panes in Office XP.
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In this blog, I hope to write a lot about my thoughts about the ins and outs of defining and designing the user experience of Office. I'll be writing frequently about the future of Office but also sometimes the past. And there may be times I find it irresistible to delve into general user interface issues or even (gasp) software issues in general. Hopefully you'll indulge me once in a while."

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Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog