Questions tagged [ribbon]

an interface using a set of toolbars categorized and displayed via tabs to simplify display to the user, such as the toolbars in recent releases of Microsoft Office.

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Use of Fluent Ribbon in MDI application

So, I work on one of those applications with a million little modules and a menu with hundreds of options. We'd like to simplify this since 90% of our users use 5% of the options on the menu and we've developed better ways for them to get at the…
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How effective is a ribbon menu work on a social media monitoring dashboard?

I am currently wireframing the functionality of a graphs widget for a social monitoring tool and need more input about how effective might this solution be...
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What is the microsoft Fluent UI name, and conventions surrounding "Table Tools"-like UI elements in MS Fluent/Ribbon apps?

One exceptional (unusual) element that I notice in the Office 2010 applications is that there are two tabs in their "fluent" or "ribbon" ux ideas, around Tables, named Design and Layout, which have a bar above them grouping them as "Table tools".…
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