Quitting with the close box on Mac

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > Why did we need ribbons again?

I first learned of the Ribbon through a post Dan Shafer made here on 
this list back in 2005:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2005-October/067709.html>

I might have been more skeptical, but citing Jakob Nielsen made it 
interesting for me, so I read Dan's post, then Jakob's article, then 
subscribed to the RSS feed for the MS Office design blog.  Learned a lot 
from all that.

One of the things I've come to respect most about MS' design team is 
their very disciplined data-driven approach.  Sure, we rarely see their 
best work because between the usability lab and the product box 
marketers step in and muck it up.  But the core design team does some 
good work, at times very good IMO.

Long after it shipped one of the Ribbon team leaders, Jensen Harris, 
gave this talk at a UX conference - long, but IMO well worth the time:

UX Week 2008: Jensen Harris, "The Story of the Ribbon"
<http://vimeo.com/3305642>

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