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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by 411111111111111 on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:40PM (#33779267)
I haven't used it in a while but I've got to admit that I've missed a lot of extremely obviously placed buttons in the Microsoft office suite.

They've designed it in a way that makes my brain go into ad-mode, which basically filters half of the interface until I'm really paying attention to and go through it several times

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by Arainach on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:54PM (#33779464)
What part of this triggers "advert mode"?

https://i.imgur.com/AIPcXVd.png

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by pfraze on Monday November 28, 2022 @07:56PM (#33782238)
The ribbon interface suffers from poor scan-ability. The problem is actually a common one with MS products since they introduced Metro: they use too much vertical space with irregular layouts. Your eyes just scan more quickly if there’s regularity in the layout and grouping along a single axis.

The trick I’ve found with the ribbon is to anchor against the labels at the bottoms of each grouping. Why they’re at the bottom and not the top, I can’t say, but those labels help me scan if I start from them.

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