Sunday, April 1, 2007

week 12: interaction design;Ultimate Toobars

The David Pogue podcast on TedTalks was enlightening. My favorite illustration of the absurdity of design elements carried to an ultimate was his illustration of what the screen of Microsoft Word would look like if you open all the toolbars. Not much room to type! Here it is:


(screenshot above from the podcast)
You could do it yourself at home by opening MSWord and going to the view>toolbars menu. The default has only 3 of the 20+ available toolbars active.

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