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Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog

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2009 1

  1. Office 2010: New Product, New Blog

2008 3

  1. Table of Contents
  2. The Story of the Ribbon
  3. Let's MIX it up!

2007 1

  1. Not Gone

2006 139

  1. Using RibbonX with C++ and ATL
  2. Windows, Office, and Exchange Business Launch
  3. RibbonX Image FAQ
  4. Licensing the 2007 Microsoft Office User Interface
  5. Developer Resources for Office 2007 RTM
  6. The Office 2007 UI Bible
  7. Office 2007 Released to Manufacturing
  8. Final Schema for RibbonX-based Solutions
  9. Where Have I Gone?
  10. Taking a Few Days Off
  11. RibbonX Updates for B2TR
  12. Beta 2 Technical Refresh Available Now
  13. Beta 2 Technical Refresh Available Tomorrow
  14. The Quick Customize Menu
  15. Things of Beauty
  16. Reality Check
  17. Giving You Fitts
  18. Which Color When? (Part 1)
  19. On Writing
  20. Running With the Popular Crowd
  21. Evolution of the PowerPoint Home Tab
  22. The 96,000 New PowerPoint Slide Designs
  23. New Product Icons for Office 2007
  24. Nice for Mice: Menu Tabs
  25. Taking the Minimized Ribbon to the Max
  26. Office 2007 Silver on Windows XP Silver
  27. Silver Bullet
  28. Iterative Design Process Applied to Charting
  29. Computers Can Do That? (Real People Study, Part 4)
  30. Putting the Feedback to Work (Real People Study, Part 3)
  31. Presenting Office UI Prodcasts
  32. You Mean I Don't Need To Retrain Everybody? (Real People Study, Part 2)
  33. Let's Talk About Customization
  34. Where do the Smiles go?
  35. Usability: Art and Science
  36. Dipping Into the Well
  37. Introducing the Command Well
  38. No Longer Spellbound
  39. The Spelling Check is Complete
  40. Every Which Way But Loose
  41. You Windows 3.1 Lovers!
  42. Are We There Yet?
  43. The World's Longest Escalator!
  44. Ribbon Extensibility: A VBA Sample
  45. Welcome to the New User Interface
  46. Where Did That Feature Go?
  47. Tell Us What You Think About Office 2007 Beta 2
  48. RibbonX Resources
  49. Having Activation Problems?
  50. Some of the Best Beta 2 Resources
  51. Get Your Office 2007 Beta 2 Today!
  52. Catching the Plane
  53. The Printer is Being Electrocuted!
  54. Double Feature
  55. Click and Type in Word
  56. Icon Explosion
  57. Choosing the Contextual Colors
  58. The Deluge
  59. The Suggestion Box
  60. About About
  61. Through the Looking Glass
  62. Need Some Help with That?
  63. RibbonX Control Type Tour, Part 3
  64. The Secret of the Mysterious Buttons
  65. Drawn Together
  66. Breathing New Life Into Old Features
  67. Don't Forget To Check Your Filters
  68. Finding a New Purpose
  69. Office 2007 UI Greets Canada
  70. The Wall of Ribbons
  71. The Size Of Things
  72. A Numbers Game
  73. RibbonX Control Type Tour, Part 2
  74. Verklärte Macht: Keyboard Revisited
  75. Grading On the Curve (Why the UI, Part 8)
  76. Speaking This Thursday in Vancouver
  77. No Distaste for Paste (Why the UI, Part 7)
  78. RibbonX Control Type Tour, Part 1
  79. Inside Deep Thought (Why the UI, Part 6)
  80. Tipping the Scale (Why the UI, Part 5)
  81. New Rectangles to the Rescue? (Why the UI, Part 4)
  82. Combating the Perception of Bloat (Why the UI, Part 3)
  83. Hollywood Meets Office Add-ins
  84. Ye Olde Museum Of Office Past (Why the UI, Part 2)
  85. The Why of the New UI (Part 1)
  86. I'm Like Dave Barry Except Not Funny or Famous
  87. Video Killed the Screenshot Star
  88. March Madness
  89. Good Service for Add-ins
  90. There's No Place Like Home
  91. A Note From the Author
  92. Usability Stockholm Syndrome
  93. Obscure Options, Meet Super Tooltips
  94. Hello World, For Real
  95. Lingering Around
  96. Adding Groups to the Quick Access Toolbar
  97. Black and Blue
  98. Picture This: A New Look For Office
  99. Pixel Envy
  100. Which menu items get icons?
  101. It's the Reason for Being
  102. Designing Against a Degrading Experience
  103. Variations on a Theme by Office
  104. Naming Your Outlook Quick Flags
  105. Not So Set In Our Ways After All
  106. An Unintentional Week of Keyboard
  107. Odds, Ends, Shortcuts, and Accelerators
  108. The Elements of Office Style
  109. Which Letter Is Better?
  110. Prototyping With PowerPoint
  111. The Biggest Loser
  112. Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System
  113. Office Themes: Getting Documents To Sing One (Beautiful) Song
  114. The Keyboard At Your Command
  115. It's Gonna Be A Hot Summer
  116. Set In Our Ways?
  117. The Second Time Is Always Better
  118. The Expert Mode Misadventure
  119. Rich Menus
  120. Going Gray
  121. Control Your Text In Word
  122. What software do you love?
  123. Flea Market of Functionality
  124. A Separate Piece
  125. Obsession to Detail
  126. Drop Me A Line (Office 12 Coolness, Part 6)
  127. The Feature Bob Invented
  128. The End of Personalized Menus
  129. A Better Box Of Crayons
  130. Improve Your Outlook
  131. Selecting With the Magic Box
  132. Tools for the Transition
  133. Symbolism (Office 12 Coolness, Part 5)
  134. The Myth of the Orange Dot
  135. The 50/50 Rule
  136. Paper Prototypes
  137. Status Bar Update
  138. A Brief History of the Status Bar
  139. New Year, New Organization

2005 60

  1. On Hiatus
  2. I Am Your Density
  3. BayCHI Event Last Night
  4. Speaking in Palo Alto Tonight
  5. Math On Demand (Office 12 Coolness, Part 4)
  6. Fast At Any Speed
  7. Know Your ABC's (Office 12 Coolness, Part 3)
  8. For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)
  9. Breaking the Code
  10. Super Tooltips
  11. Cover Pages: Cool Things In Office 12 (Part 1)
  12. The Best Outlook Feature Ever
  13. Help Is For Experts
  14. I Guess No One Cares About Fonts
  15. Fun Factor
  16. Beta 1-derful: The 'Top 30' List
  17. Making the Letters Better
  18. A Clipboard for Formatting
  19. Grading On the Curve (Why the UI, Part 8)
  20. Decoding Office Build Numbers
  21. 1000 Card Pick-Up
  22. Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
  23. For Sale By Owner
  24. No Distaste for Paste (Why the UI, Part 7)
  25. It Takes a Village
  26. The Importance Of Labels
  27. Inside Deep Thought (Why the UI, Part 6)
  28. Happy Pretend Halloween
  29. Because You Want To, Not Because You Have To
  30. It All Adds Up
  31. Usability Redux
  32. Tipping the Scale (Why the UI, Part 5)
  33. More Than Just the Two-Way Mirror
  34. A Disappearing Act
  35. Scaling Up, Scaling Down
  36. New Rectangles to the Rescue? (Why the UI, Part 4)
  37. Excel Can Be 'Rand'om Too
  38. Stroking the Keys in Office 12
  39. Most People Are Not Trained In Geology
  40. Combating the Perception of Bloat (Why the UI, Part 3)
  41. Thrown For a Loop
  42. Learning From the MVPs
  43. Ye Olde Museum Of Office Past (Why the UI, Part 2)
  44. What programs get the new Office UI?
  45. Be Willing To Be Wrong
  46. Office 12: It's Not Just UI
  47. Dialog Launchers
  48. The Why of the New UI (Part 1)
  49. Thoughts on the Microsoft Company Meeting
  50. A 'Rand'om Word Trick For You
  51. Formatting: An Act In Three Plays
  52. Results-Oriented Design (Galleries: Part 3 of 3)
  53. Visualize Whirled Peas (Galleries: Part 2 of 3)
  54. I'm In Louvre! (Galleries: Part 1 of 3)
  55. It's All About Context
  56. Mythbusters: The Office 12 New UI
  57. Enter the Ribbon
  58. My Schedule at PDC
  59. Office 12 New UI: The Cat's Out
  60. Hello world!