The outliers here are Calendar and People. However, look closely and you’ll see not every entry follows the guidelines. Every area of the platform has a brand name (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint).Every navigation entry consists of an icon and text.There’s a few guiding principles we might borrow from O365 at first glance. You are reading email, then you are working in a shared document, then you are reviewing a spreadsheet, then video chatting with a coworker.Īll these platforms use the 9-dot app launcher icon to jump from one context to another. These are platforms where users move between different contexts. Applications might not be the right word to use, but think about platforms like Office 365, Salesforce, and Google’s GSuite. I’ve been looking specifically at navigation for platforms that compose themselves from multiple applications. In UX, there’s time for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of a toast and tea. I’m not a good poet or a good UX designer, but I know what I like when I read poetry, and I know what works for me when I use software. When it comes to UX, I follow T.S Eliot’s philosophy that good poets borrow, great poets steal. I believe anyone who builds software that comes anywhere close to the user interface should know something about UX design. I do this partly because I want to fight the specialization sickness that hobbles our industry. Every so often I like to wander into user experience design meetings and voice my opinion.
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