RIP (or not) Clippy: 1997-2007
Microsoft’s Clippy was a rebel. In an age of usability design that stressed minimizing user trepidation by maximizing user control Clippy broke all the rules. He would pop up unexpectantly, break work flows, nag with unnecessary questions, confuse with undesired options, and produce the kind of productivity terrorism now reserved for YouTube. He was a scamp!
With the new Office 2007 ribbon interface, however, there was little room for Clippy’s antics. At militant geek we have this look back at one of the worst attempts at humanizing software since Microsoft’s Bob:
via Gizmodo
