Office 2007 UI Bible
Jensen Harris, the interaction designer for Microsoft Office 2007 has posted on his blog Office 2007 UI Bible. This collection of posts gives a fantastic look at the reasoning that went into the latest redesign of Office. He gives statistics gleaned from the extremely large amount of usage data automatically recorded by Office (with consent, of course), explains what he thinks went wrong with the UI in previous versions, and even tells how the oddly-named Ribbon got its name.
This is a major piece of history and Microsoft should be commended for exposing all of this to the public.
Posted by coughlin at 4:19 PM