Three user experience updates Office announced today
Three user experience updates Office announced today For an overview of these changes, check out this video by Jon Friedman, our Chief Designer for Office. Here are some highlights from their post: “Office is used by more than a billion people every month, so while we’re excited about these changes, we also recognize how important it is to get things right. These updates are exclusive to Office.com and Office 365 – the always up-to-date versions of our apps and services. But they won’t happen all at once. Instead, over the next several months we will deploy new designs to select customers in stages and carefully test and learn. We’ll move them into production only after they’ve made it through rigorous rounds of validation and refinement. The initial set of updates includes three changes. Simplified Ribbon. A new, updated version of the ribbon is designed to help users focus on their work and collaborate naturally with others. People who prefer to dedicate more screen space to the commands will still be able to expand the ribbon to the classic 3-line view. The first app to get this [ more… ]