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by direwolf20 132 days ago
IIRC the Ribbon had real UX testing behind it. All the most common features were truly easier to access, but it was harder to find a certain feature when you needed it. In other words they optimized for the wrong thing.

My favorite was that Paste was a giant button while Cut and Copy were small because the UX research found that people paste more than they cut or copy...