MS Office as a video game?
UI truism “Don’t make me think!” is too simplistic?
Game designer Danc over at lostgarden.com has a thoughtful post about how game design will improve application design. Oh yeah, Ribbon Hero is the name of the aforementioned video game, available as a download from Microsoft, that will transform using Office into a game. ZDNet called it “brilliant”. I think it’s very encouraging that way people are slowly rethinking the whole paradigm of ‘applications’ as nothing but tools to enable us to perform tasks. Who knows what the best and most usable way to present a tool is? As long as we entertain the possibility that we don’t yet have the best answer for that question, the sky is the limit.
Applications As Games
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