I agree, the lozenges look a bit busy. I have many back to back 1/2hr
or 1 hour meetings so I run into similar issues where they kind of
glob together visually. This is mostly because of the line on the
left side.
We could consider giving the user a preference to have more and more
meta-data on the lozenge. Out of the box, I could imagine something
very minimal. This way, people who don't use event status or events
on multiple calendars, don't have to see that on the event lozenge.
We do has this information in the detail view. Another exercise might
be to prioritize the meta data on the wiki page Mimi put together -
what nuances do we absolutely have to have.
I would also like to get a more accurate swag for the solid banner at
the top. It may be hard but what does that really mean...what's the
cost? If it's really is the right visual design we might need to make
that choice.
Sheila
On Apr 13, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Mitchell Kapor wrote:
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
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