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2013-02-27 12:05 »

Fool's design.

The butchering of Office 2013 - Visual clues are gone.

Appearantly, visual clues are not desirable anymore. Perhaps due to lack of enough white and gray space in Outlook. They need to save all that white and gray space as much as they can. How else would you burn the users' eyes? How else would you be able to distract the users as much as possible, which seems the goal of this user interface.

As you can clearly see from the pictures below, there is no way to know, without user interaction, that there are more folders above or below. No way to know where your position is inside that scrollable control. No way to know if that control even is scrollable!

After all, why would you want to give the user visual clues to help them?
Let them have to use mouse hover to get a visual clue. Yes, let them eat cake!

What you see:
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What you see upon hovering the mouse over that section:
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Again, we find the following image very fitting:
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2013-02-27 12:13 »

Imagine all those wonderful support scenarios.

  • MY FOLDERS ARE GONE!
  • Sir if you could just click on the arrow and scroll down...
  • WHAT ARROW? I DO NOT SEE AN ARROW! MY FOLDERS ARE GONE!

:lol:

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