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Design guidelines

Design guidelines

From the course: Microsoft Office Add-Ins for Developers

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Design guidelines

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- [Instructor] Microsoft have put together some design guidelines that can be helpful to make sure your add-in looks and behaves in a way that's consistent with the Office application host. They can be summarized by considering a number of principles. First of all, we want to design explicitly for Office, so we want to compliment the Office experience and not simply take a website or an existing application, then try to run it squeezed inside the task pane, for example. We want to focus on a few key tasks and then do those well. It can be tempting to keep adding features or give a single add-in multiple jobs, where it would be better to have multiple add-ins. It's a good idea to try to focus on common use cases rather than build something that's all singing or dancing that in reality, is gonna be difficult to use. We're trying to help users get their work done, not show how great we are at building software. We should favor content over chrome, so chrome in the sense of the user…

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