My initial reaction is that these designs all try to cram too many
visual distinctions to represent the different nuances of event meta-
data. I'd rather have a cleaner and more legible look even if it
meant given up some of the nuances.
On Apr 13, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/
EventLozengeImprovements
So of course, just as I replied to matt saying that the @time and
anytime lozenges wouldn't change very much, Mitch's email prompted
me to have another go at the event lozenges in the calendar, which
prompted me to draw a laundry list of all the pieces of meta-data
that should/could go on the event lozenge...which turned out to be
rather long.
Note: Apparently it is hard to draw the solid banner at the top of
the event lozenge, which is why we didn't consider this design for
0.6 (a la iCal) (Alec, correct me if I'm wrong)
Mimi :o)
On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:59 AM, Mitchell Kapor wrote:
I'm now dogfooding 0.6.1. I've put away iCal, at least for a
week. So far, so good, as they say. My assistant, Esther Sun,
keeps my calendar, so my primary use case is frequently consulting
it to see what I have to do next, what the current day is like ,
or how busy is a specified interval in the future. I have a
fairly full calendar and it is not unusual to have 4 or 5
consecutive appointments of 30 or 60 minutes duration each.
The visual separation between multiple consecutive events is not
up to par. The problem is that it's hard to tell where one event
ends and the next begins. The shape of each event is rectangular
on the left side and nearly so on the right, with only a very
small curved cut-out at the top and bottom edge. I think it would
really help if the event "lozenge" was actually more lozenge-
shaped so that a series of consecutive events would read more as a
set of oval lozenges stacked on top of one another rather than a
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