Fool's design
2013-03-14 04:20
Forum: The lounge
Topic: Opinions and suggestions
Replies: 62

(2) If you have access to the style sheet for layout and placement I would experiment with slightly increased padding-top for the user comment ( or maybe padding-bottom after the header, ex: by Fool's design » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:50 pm ) so that there is a little space after the header before the u...
Fool's design
2013-03-14 02:58
Forum: Fool's design, editorials.
Topic: Office 2013 - Scrollbars, the madness of a splitted mind
Replies: 3

Office 2013 - Scrollbars, the madness of a splitted mind

Fool's design. Office 2013 - Scrollbars, the madness of a splitted mind. Microsoft's design team has zero clue about the importance of clarity in in the visual cues. Visual cues must be very clear and well, VISUAL , to take the burden off the eyes and the brain. After all, computers are here to help...
Fool's design
2013-03-14 02:26
Forum: Fool's design, editorials.
Topic: Windows 8 dislikes more than one instance of an application
Replies: 6

... P.S. is there an EDIT timeout? Yes, there is currently a 7 minutes time window to edit a post. We have a lot of experience from "big" forums and allowing to edit posts for longer periods of time is dangerous because it would be possible to delete old content. For example if an account...
Fool's design
2013-03-14 02:07
Forum: The lounge
Topic: The fools of MSFN forums
Replies: 163

Don't know why this topic was in the "Junks" section. It's moved to "General discussion" now. Any old link will not die, even if linked to the old section. We renamed some forums and this one probably got stuck in the "Junks" and forgotten about.
Fool's design
2013-03-13 12:44
Forum: The lounge
Topic: Opinions and suggestions
Replies: 62

"!" , Dude, you're kicking ass and taking names. The blog is shaping up nice. http://www.msfn.org/board/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbup.gif Questions and Suggestions ... Thank you for the kind words! Have seen people already quoting and linking to the articles in here, which is nic...
Fool's design
2013-03-10 18:17
Forum: Fool's design, editorials.
Topic: Office 2013 - Gray galore!
Replies: 0

Office 2013 - Gray galore!

Fool's design.

Office 2013 - Gray galore!

Which one is disabled? ALL of them look disabled. Gray on gray on lighter gray. Gray here and gray there. Gray up and gray down.

We call it, gray galore!
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Fool's design
2013-03-10 18:06
Forum: Fool's design, editorials.
Topic: Office 2013 - Outlook, useless to right-click on an email
Replies: 1

Office 2013 - Outlook, useless to right-click on an email

Fool's design. Office 2013 - Outlook, useless to right-click on an email. Right-clicking on an email in Outlook is useless. Why is that menu even there? The "Copy" is disabled! What? "Select Hyperlink" must be used BEFORE the "Copy" menu is activated! Right there you force the user to one extra unne...
Fool's design
2013-03-08 20:34
Forum: Fool's design, editorials.
Topic: Office 2013 - Mysterious invisible moving handles in Outlook
Replies: 2

It seems that it uses % so to the users' eyes, it is effectively random.
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Fool's design
2013-03-07 18:17
Forum: Fool's design, editorials.
Topic: Office 2013 - THE SHOUTING MENUS
Replies: 4

Office 2013 - THE SHOUTING MENUS

Fool's design.

Office 2013 - THE SHOUTING MENUS.

YOU MIGHT HAVE TO TURN YOUR PC VOLUME DOWN WHILE USING OFFICE 2013!
THE MENUS ARE YELLING AND SHOUTING AT YOU!!
CAN YOU HEAR THEM!!!?
WE SURE CAN!!!!
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Fool's design
2013-03-07 14:21
Forum: Fool's design, editorials.
Topic: Office 2013 - Full screen menus, lost at sea
Replies: 2

Office 2013 - Full screen menus, lost at sea

Fool's design. Office 2013 - Fool Full screen menus, lost at sea. Menus usually drop down, right? Well, not in Microsoft land anymore. Their handle disappear, they might "close", they might go "back" or perhaps, they might just sit there on full screen, laughing at you, lost at sea. Clicking on "FIL...