Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • Office 2007 verdict

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    Ben
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    The “ribbon” UI works fairly well and actually exposes some features that were always there in the application but never really noticed or easily findable. The help system is also quite in-depth and useful. Some things have changed relatively dramatically. Making PowerPoint templates doesn’t require the tedious “editing” master slides. Rather you now create, edit…

  • A funny thing happened…

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    Ben
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    So this last week was a bit of a roller-coaster with all sorts of surprise projects and issues popping up on the radar screen. And last Friday as I got back to my office after the last round of meetings, I discovered a message on my phone. A good message. I had just won an…

  • Thoughts on Adobe’s Creative Suite 4

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    Ben
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    So I’ve upgraded to Adobe’s CS4. Overall it has been a good upgrade. Here are some of my random thoughts on it – perhaps they may be useful to others out there. First off – I passionately hate the new “we’re going to stick this amazingly huge, limited-purpose bar over everything” UI. Very un-cool. And…