The Evolution of the Microsoft Office UI (Ribbon)

I would like to share with you an old post I encountered by Jensen Harris from “An Office User Interface Blog”.

The post is talking about the evolution of the Microsoft Office Ribbon. In this short post, Jensen provides download links to his MIX presentation about “The Story of the Ribbon”.

Among the links there is a PowerPoint presentation, providing some nice pics about how to Office UI evolved and about the Office 2007 prototypes before it was RTM’d.

So here are some pics from the first to last Microsoft Office (Click an image to enlarge):

If your looking for Office 2007, this one is in my next post: The Evolution of the Microsoft Office UI (Ribbon) – Office 2007 Prototypes.

The post is covering the Microsoft Office 2007 Prototypes before it was RTM’d.

Avi.