Just a short note to let you know that I’ll be presenting a new session during MIX in Las Vegas on Friday, March 7 at 10:00 entitled “The Story of the Ribbon.” In this session, I’m going to present the story of the Ribbon–the customer problems that we were aiming to solve by designing a new user interface for Office, the prototypes we considered (but abandoned), the mistakes we learned from along the way, and the principles we used to create the Office 2007 user interface. It will be informal narrative, with lots of pictures and screenshots–my perspective as a member of the team who worked on the user interface from day one until the day we shipped

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