As any of those who know me will attest, I’m a UI design freak. I may not be able to draw properly but I know what looks good and works well. So, the following tagline about the OpenOffice 3.0 beta immediately caught my eye.
‘New, Fresh-Looking Icons’ - OpenOffice.org 3.0 got a new set of fresh-looking icons which makes OpenOffice.org a lot more fun to work with.
So, flush with anticipation to see what their 2008 take would be on an Office UI compared to the Ribbon from Microsoft I eagerly went straight to that link preparing to be wowed.
WOW, was the right word. Surely these are the icons that shipped with Windows 3.11 somewhere back in the early 90’s?
Not sure if they are really clever and this is retro chic to combat the Ribbon, or maybe that’s how they really think a modern UI should look…. as to being fun to work with, I can imagine it wil be a game.
