Comment on Why is UI design backsliding?
aluminium@lemmy.world 1 month ago
no, I’m willing to die on the hill that the ribbon UI is one of the greatest UIs period - especially how it was done in office 07 and 10. As a computer noob at the time, it was a huge improvement over the previous office 2003 UI.
The icons always gave you a good idea what something was doing, important functions were bigger and when you for example selected a table the table tab was visible and with a different color so you knew that you could do things with that table.
I think however many 3rd party programms did the ribbon UI poorly or had not enough features for it to make sense.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I will stand with you on the hill defending the Office 2010 UI, it was beautiful, clear and easy to work with.
The flat design of 2013+ was a mistake.
aluminium@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think the 2013+ design was fine at time but 10+ years of doing the same flat minimalist design over and over makes me hate it now!