That's correct. Colored squares ONLY show up if an event is on multiple calendars.On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:38 AM, Sheila Mooney wrote: I like this design, particularly the white space around each lozenge since it really makes the boundaries of the event stand out. I also like the reverse color for the anytime and @time events (indicating no duration).
Mimi, I assume that if your event is NOT on more than one calendar, the squares do not appear, it's just a plain lozenge?
Sheila On Apr 24, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Mimi Yin wrote: I've pulled together a list of use cases + a final proposal for 0.7 event lozenges improvements. Screenshot is below. Thx, Mimi
Use cases that the event lozenge design needs to solve for, in order of frequency of use. - Managing and editing a calendar. Making it easy/clear to grab a lozenge to move it around on the canvas.
- Figuring out when your next meeting/appointment is.
- Figuring out what your next meeting/appointment is.
- Scanning your own calendar to schedule an appt/meeting or figure out a realistic milestone/due date for a task. Which days are packed? Which days are relatively light?
- Scheduling a meeting with other people (by overlaying your calendar with their free/busy or calendar)
- Looking for a particular event on your calendar.
Final Proposal What's new - Lozenge outline is white*, which helps to break up consecutive events more effectively in 2 ways:
- Creates a higher contrast divider between event lozenges
- Breaks up the "event status strips", which currently run uninterruped if there are consecutive events
*The white outline was inspired by some studies Priscilla did: EventLozengeStudies - Event Status Strip is subtler in several ways:
- Default is nothing (for confirmed events)
- Striped tentative strip is narrower
- FYI strip is narrower as well
- Calendar Membership Colors are subtler and replace more and more of the Event Status Strip, up to a limit. As a result, you don't ever get a whole Event Status Strip + Calendar Membership Colors, thereby minimizing the visual noise without losing the meta-data.
- @Time and Anytime events are more distinct from events with duration
- @Time and Anytime events are distinct from events with duration in a semantically meaningful way (they are "less saturated" because they don't actually take up time)
- Selected calendar lozenges are more distinct from activated, but not selected calendars:
- Lozenge fill color is more saturated
- Text is white on lozenges belonging to the selected calendar
We may also want to consider exploring some alternatives for making the Event title more prominent than the Start-time on the lozenge, as per Priscilla's mock-ups: EventLozengeStudies <dotseven_lozenges_5.png>
=== What we've done:
1. Mimi compiled a list of all the different pieces of meta-data that may need to go on the event lozenges and put forth 3 proposals which took into dogfood feedback:
2. Mimi did a 4th iteration based on feedback from the list:
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