| I have written up a summary of the design discussions surrounding the Preview area (bug 4610) PLUS 1 more suggestion for a design alternative. http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/edit/Journal/SummaryPreviewPane?t=1145037939 I'd like to get a sense of how easy/hard it would be to try out any/all of the proposals and compare them after using each one over a period of time. Summary of Preview Pane discussions and Proposals Several people report a bug because they are confused with the Preview Pane's inconsistent behavior across App areas. In the Calendar app, it is stuck showing Today's events. In the other App areas, it shows events for whatever day is selected in the mini-cal: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-March/004298.html Mimi takes issue to the list, explaining reasoning behind inconsistent behavior: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-February/004051.html Others reply with how they use the Preview Pane in the Calendar App, it is useful for it to be stuck on Today's events, even though admittedly it is confusing at first: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-March/004298.html Proposals * Current design: In the Calendar app, the preview pane is stuck showing Today's events. In the other App areas, it shows events for whatever day is selected in the mini-cal. * Alternate design 1: Make the Calendar app consistent with the other App areas. Add extra visual feedback in the mini-cal so the user can select a day within a week...when they're in the week view, so the user can control which day of the week they want to see in the Preview pane. * Alternate design 2: In the Calendar app, we add a label: Today's events at the top of the Preview pane. * Alternate design 3: In all Apps areas, the Preview pane is stuck on Today's events. However, the user can mouseover different days to preview events for those days. (Might be too much interaction feedback. More disorienting than useful.) Mimi :o) |
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