Comments on: Simplified box art for Office 2010 standalone apps

By: Techbits – 05.21.10 | GeekSmack

Techbits – 05.21.10 | GeekSmack — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:47:08 +0000

[...] Office 2010 box art simplified [...]

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:53:46 +0000

Back to basics. These boxes are HOT.

By: Andre Da Costa

Andre Da Costa — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:55:01 +0000

Actually it has nothing to do with it being a part of the Office suite. Products like Project, Visio are low volume products in comparison to Word, Excel and Outlook. Although Project and Visio are popular in their own right, they are not as heavily used as the products in the suite, so the packaging doesn’t have much priority in design. So its primarily to save cost.

By: Andre Da Costa

Andre Da Costa — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:52:29 +0000

Friends don’t let friends spend US $700 on a professional DTP Package such as Quark or InDesign when all they are creating are church newsletters, flyer’s and basic websites. Don’t dis the product if you have never used it or just opened it once.

By: Office 2010 Standalone Apps Box Art | Tea Break

Office 2010 Standalone Apps Box Art | Tea Break — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:29:45 +0000

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By: Office 2010 Standalone Apps Box Art | MicrosoftFeed

Office 2010 Standalone Apps Box Art | MicrosoftFeed — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:13:26 +0000

[...] If you want to learn about the new and cool features of Microsoft Office 2010 then do read our posts on Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Acesss, Outlook, Visio and OneNote. [via istartedsomething] [...]

By: thenonhacker

thenonhacker — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:35:30 +0000

Boxes make branding consistent — and you’ll instantly get familiarized with the Start Menu/Taskbar Icon, too!

The only thing that may become an issue, is that one day, most App Icons will be based on letters. Like Adobe app icons. So later we can get confused with a Start Menu resembling the Periodic Table of Elements.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:22:45 +0000

Is it just me or does the Outlook box go out at the bottom more than the others? It just looks wrong…

By: Rox

Rox — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:22:46 +0000

The Powerpoint, Publisher and Project looks confusing because of the P if you don’t read the word above. How about the color boxes of Publisher and Project? The boxes are in the shades of green.

By: Toph

Toph — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:35:00 +0000

Well, note that *every* suite product is back to being marketed without the “Office” — Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Outlook 2010, etc. I’ve noticed this in the beta, and it appears to be carrying over to the packaging branding. I like it.

And I like the packaging in general, although yeah, it matters less these days, and, “someone,” it’s not quite as lovely as Adobe’s approach (which I adore).