The concept of Microsoft’s Fluent Design goes way back to 2017 when it took over from Project NEON and since then it improved the design of many apps including Office. They have been adding new icons and a dark mode. The focus on simplicity is there given when it comes to the new awesome looking Start menu. Simplicity is also the approach for the next Office UI presented by Jon Fridman:
What’s new with the next Office 365 user interface?
Microsoft 365 UX changes imply fading the brand colors from the app headers and also experimenting with a new concept called adaptive commanding. This will allow you to move a simplified toolbar (describes also as a flexible ribbon) around the screen and reveal commands progressively as it moves. There will also be an ever further change in a centralized Search that will benefit from Fluid Frameworks technology. Another change is a simple app icon placed at the top of apps to show you which Office app is active.
Friedman also mentions strong AI involvement:
When is the new Office UI coming?
There is no clear timeline for the UI changes, but Friedman provides some vague hope: In Planner, we’re exploring how AI can auto-suggest end dates for tasks based on their descriptions, which is akin to how Forms currently leverages AI to auto-populate questions based on the title you entered. In other words, some of these design and UI changes might never see the light of our monitors.
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