The ribbon interface was adopted in 2007. That's 13 years ago.
What is the jank? It's a tabbed interface of buttons instead of menus and sub menus.
The most common operations are descriptive buttons.
Give someone word 2003 or word 2020 who has never used a word processor before. Which one would be more intuitive?
It's bad UI if people just learn where to click. They should be able to think in terms of "I want to do X" and be able to do that as quick as possible.
Of course with specialised tools that's a different story. AutoCAD hasn't really changed its interface but it got superceded in areas by new applications that break people's workflows in a lot of cases.
It's just a word processor. The knowledge you should have gained when being taught was the concepts of what you can do with one.
That should allow you to adapt to different software. Once you've used a word processor you don't need to read the help page for Google Docs.
It's not like switching from Maya to Blender.
I don't agree on the free software projects point. Often they're made by volunteers. And anything too "daring" would be shouted down by the community.
What is the jank? It's a tabbed interface of buttons instead of menus and sub menus.
The most common operations are descriptive buttons.
Give someone word 2003 or word 2020 who has never used a word processor before. Which one would be more intuitive?
It's bad UI if people just learn where to click. They should be able to think in terms of "I want to do X" and be able to do that as quick as possible.
Of course with specialised tools that's a different story. AutoCAD hasn't really changed its interface but it got superceded in areas by new applications that break people's workflows in a lot of cases.
It's just a word processor. The knowledge you should have gained when being taught was the concepts of what you can do with one.
That should allow you to adapt to different software. Once you've used a word processor you don't need to read the help page for Google Docs.
It's not like switching from Maya to Blender.
I don't agree on the free software projects point. Often they're made by volunteers. And anything too "daring" would be shouted down by the community.