An interesting talk about how MS designed the "Ribbon" for Office.
It's about 90 minutes long, but it's not tedious if you just listen to it 
while doing something else.  And it's a *real* good example of why FOSS is 
going to have a very hard time coming up with new and innovative UI for at 
least some sorts of programs, just for lack of resources and motivation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4&feature=channel




Then, oddly enough, an hour later I ran across discussion of a new UI for OOo:

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/prototyping_a_new_ui_july


-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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