Jensen Harris: The Story of the MS Office Ribbon

Posted on May 15th, 2010 in All Videos,Design

90 minutes

Jensen Harris, in 90 minutes of awesomeness, talks at Mix ’08 about the design process which led to the creation of the ribbon toolbar which appeared in Microsoft Office 2007 and has become a widely used design pattern. Revealed in the talk are many prototypes of early designs as well as the story behind the ‘ribbon’ name. Jensen still works at Microsoft and is now working on Office 2010.