{"id":3724,"date":"2011-08-30T19:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T00:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2011-08-30T19:28:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T00:28:57","slug":"improvements-in-windows-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/improvements-in-windows-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvements in Windows Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/b8\/archive\/2011\/08\/26\/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx\">Steven Sinofsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/b8\/archive\/2011\/08\/26\/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx\"><p>Only 2 of the top 10 commands customers invoke in Explorer are available in the Command bar, the main UI element for invoking commands. This further reinforced our thinking that there was a big opportunity here to improve Explorer by making common commands more readily available. A clear user interface design principle is that frequently used commands should be easy to get to&mdash;clearly we had not yet accomplished that with existing designs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also the comments by <a href=\"http:\/\/seldo.tumblr.com\/post\/9549775746\/this-is-genuinely-microsofts-idea-of-a\">Laurie Voss<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usabilitypost.com\/2011\/08\/29\/new-windows-explorer-ui\/\">Dmitry Fadeyev<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/explorer_bar\/\">Lukas Mathis<\/a>). I tend to agree with Fadeyev, contra Voss&rsquo;s snark, that lots of people using the context menu is a sign that the other methods need to be improved. The other interesting thing is seeing just how often Windows users Cut\/Copy\/Paste files. I&rsquo;m still not sold on the ribbon, though, having used it in Office 2011. But, as with Windows Phone 7, it&rsquo;s nice to see Microsoft explore a different direction.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Sinofsky: Only 2 of the top 10 commands customers invoke in Explorer are available in the Command bar, the main UI element for invoking commands. This further reinforced our thinking that there was a big opportunity here to improve Explorer by making common commands more readily available. A clear user interface design principle is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}