What struck me as interesting was that when faced with the problem of too many tiny icons, the MS Engineers’ first solution was the complete opposite of mine. Removing the buttons from the toolbar that are not being used is the obvious solution to me. Instead, they decided to add labels to everything. And so, the hugeness of the ribbon was created to accommodate all those new labels. Grouping and tabs were then created in an attempt to make the labels shorter so that more would fit. And so on, until you end up with this.
Posted on Saturday May 2nd, 2009
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