Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Apr 2009 09:36 UTC, submitted by davidiwharper
Windows Vista wasn't exactly a success, and as such, Microsoft needed different people to manage the development of Windows 7. One of those new people is Julie Larson-Green, who made a very good showing with Microsoft Office 2007, which took the bold move of replacing the menu-driven interface with the newly designed Ribbon interface. The Sydney Morning Herald (awesome name) decided to take a look at who, exactly, Larson-Green is.
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2005-12-31
I always find it strange that people tend to think of the UI as "a necessary evil that needs to be there in place for us to be able to perform all our cool actions". This is especially true for many open source projects.
I've always considered the UI as one of the key components of a graphical application, and downplaying the importance of "getting it right" - from a users perspective can effectively ruin an otherwise perfectly good application.
Designing a graphical application around the way it is going to be used, and making sure that the UI is good and intuitive, before designing the nitty-gritty functionality, seems to me like doing it right.
Unless you're working on a command-line tool where UI isn't really that important. Just seems that often it is the same programmers creating both kinds of programs leading to bad UIs becoming the standard.
Edited 2009-04-21 10:50 UTC