Personally, I have large screens and lots of 30 minute meetings,
which explains my preference.
Distribution of screen size, large vs small, and ratio of 30 to 60
minute meetings are issues which can be empirically studied. I hope
we will get to this.
Optimally, we'd have an intelligent default # of hours that would
sense screen size and set accordingly.
On May 1, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
This might be difficult for users with smaller screens. Assuming
you have 1 or 2 rows of items in the all-day area, that would leave
you with a calendar canvas that can only display 7.5 hours at a
time. Which by today's standards, is a pretty short work-day (at
least in the U.S.) ;o) (See screenshot below).
If people are using the calendar for work + home, it makes it hard
to see the whole day in a single glance. (Morning gym work-out,
Meetings, After-work dinner plans).
With a shared office calendar (which is one of our core use cases
for small group collaborative calendaring), users will have lots
more all-day items (PTO, holidays, cleaning days, etc) and the
calendar canvas could easily shrink to 6 hours.
I think 1 hour meetings are still by-in-large more common than half-
hour meetings? It might be better to design around 1-hour as the
default, rather than half-hour.
Users with larger screens, or lots of half-hour meetings can always
change the hour settings.
Mimi
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On Apr 30, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Mitch Kapor wrote:
A 30 minute meeting should normally be tall enough to display two
lines of text, not one, in order to show a time and a title. This
can be helped by reducing the default # of hours to be shown on
screen.
Use the time zone icon approach Mimi prototyped to save space.
Always display columns wide enough to show time as HH:MM XM or
HH:MM XM TZ if the event is in a different time zone than the
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