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Usability Design Nightmare
By Katrina Gallagher | June 24, 2008
Mircosoft have put ‘undo’ next to ’save’ in their new version of Office:

What were they thinking?
Topics: Usability, web usability |



June 24th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Can you go into detail of why that’s such a bad thing? I haven’t noticed any problem with it, although I do usually use ‘Ctrl + Z’ rather than the button.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Becaue it’s millimetres away from disaster. you want to undo, but you save instead. Mendozaaaaaaaa!!!!!
July 16th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Have you tried right clicking on that little panel and selecting customise? It lets you change what appears there so you can get rid of undo or save or both if you like.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Good call Nina, I’ll definitely customise that.