GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism

Re:GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism by adestefan on Friday April 27, 2012 @08:01AM (#3898655)

Am I the only one that actually likes the ribbon? I can actually find the options I want to use in Office 10 instead of trying to dig through dozens of drop down menus.

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Re:GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism by snowwrestler on Friday April 27, 2012 @05:58PM (#3901195)

I love it too; much easier to find features I don't use regularly.

Fair or not, I feel like people who complain about it today (years after it launched) are just announcing, "I'm bad at adapting."

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Re:GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism by read_wharf on Friday April 27, 2012 @08:11AM (#3898683)

"Am I the only one ..."

The answer to this is always "no."

Except this time.

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Re:GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism by sokoloff on Friday April 27, 2012 @08:44AM (#3898775)

Amusing, but untrue. I took a (long) while to like the ribbon, but I have to say that I find it a large improvement in usability, and it makes it vastly more likely that I will accept "other than the basic/defaults".

It actively encourages exploration. That's good for some use cases, and it's certainly good for Microsoft.

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Re:GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism by rubynerd on Friday April 27, 2012 @11:09AM (#3899383)

I love it, I used to be on the fence until I discovered the magical ALT key

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