Excel 2007 charting UX design

Sander Viegers is a user experience (UX) designer in the Office Design Group who contributed to Excel 2007's development. Sander has guest blogged on the Excel 2007 team blog this interesting post describing the process of creating the new charting experience.

Thanks to Andy for pointing out the post (btw, check out this post by Andy Edmonds about one of the Live Labs funded research projects on deep clickstream analysis).

Other posts on the Excel 2007 (nee Excel 12) team blog of note:

• Thanks For Your Help, Open XML Translator (ODF Support For Office), Comments
• 4 More Shortcut Keys (Paste Special - Alt+CTRL+V  - haaraa!!)
• Excel 2007 – The Final Look, and more rows and columns
• Making features easier to find and quicker to use
• Is there any business intelligence out there? Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Video on Channel 9
• Managing External Database Connections in Excel 12
• PivotTables – overview of improvements in Excel 12
• Excel Services part 10: Data Connection Libraries, or connecting to databases made easy, manageable, and secure