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February 27, 2007
WYGIWYS
Jakob Nielsen explains that the new Office 2007 Ribbon is an implementation of What You Get Is What You See. Is that what it is? It's early days yet - for those diehards used to the older command oriented paradigm of sequenced commands in menu commands, toolbars and tabbed dialog boxes, the new WGIWYS is just blatantly In Your Face. As I work in Excel 2007, I keep looking at the Ribbon and losing focus on what I was attempting to do. No doubt, as we work more with these programs, we'll get used to the paradigm (or press Ctrl+F1 a lot).
Jakob also notes that, as trainers and writers, we should be providing deep, strategic computer insights rather than regurgitating the contents of the manual.
Food for thought? Spread the news.
Posted by Anandasim at February 27, 2007 08:15 PM
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