There is much to admire here. The date picker seems to me fairly sound, but the time picker wireframes shown here - http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/_4hI - I find problematic.
The grid of numbers for option #1, increasing left-to- right and then top-to-bottom, feels like an odd contrivance that I don't associate with time in any other context, in software or otherwise. It's not immediately clear what the grid of numbers is supposed to represent, and if I didn't come into these pages already thinking "time picker" it might have taken a few more seconds to realize what I was looking at. Perhaps it matters how I *came* to the picker in the first place? How would that introductory wireframe look? The rolling time picker I have no such difficulty of recognition. It's like a combination lock or analog dials on old alarm clocks, and I recognize immediately that the relevant numbers should line up. The visible sliding into place provides some satisfaction - I can almost hear an audible "click." But when you combine the two, option #2 drops away. Is there no good way to combine the rolling time picker with the date picker? ~Clay On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Allison Bloodworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Sakai community! > At the Fluid Project (http://wiki.fluidproject.org) one of our main > activities is designing and developing usable and accessible user interface > components for you to integrate into your applications. > We hope that the Date-Time Picker we are currently working on could be used > in many of your applications and would love any feedback you could give us > on it. See the email below for more info, and free to contact Erin or me (or > the fluid-work mailing list, in cc:) with any questions. The Date Picker > Design Overview page > (http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Design+Overview) > also has additional background on the component. > Thanks very much, and happy holidays! > Allison > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Allison Bloodworth <[email protected]> > Date: December 18, 2008 8:39:36 PM PST > To: Fluid Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Date-Time Picker Update > Hi folks, > Erin and I have been making progress on the Date-Time Picker, and have some > new wireframes available for review > at: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Wireframes. We > are still trying to determine whether to use a "tabbed" (see wireframes) or > "rolling" time picker (see wireframes > and http://ets-dev.berkeley.edu:8901/trunk/html/timepicker.html). If both > seem like feasible options to the community, we plan to do user testing on > both of them asap in January. Please let us know if you have feedback on how > either of these two options would work in your context. > One potential advantage of the tabbed time picker is that it can be more > easily combined with the date picker in cases where date-time is a single > field (e.g. Mneme & Modules in Sakai, > see http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Contexts+of+Use). > We'd be very interested in hearing from the community about whether it would > be a problem to split date & time into two fields in these (or other) > situations. If so, we are thinking about other options for combining the > 'rolling' time picker with the date picker, but are not sure these two > pieces are well-suited to becoming a combined component. > We've also been working on localization & internationalization guidelines > for the Date-Time Picker > (http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Functional+Specification), > and would love to have any input from folks on things we may be missing. > Finally, we are in the process of creating storycards for the Date Picker > portion of the component only (since the Time Picker is still in flux). > Check them out > at: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Storycards -- > though they are still in draft form, we'd love to hear from developers as to > whether the way we've started to organize them makes sense. > Happy almost holidays, everyone! > Allison & Erin > Allison Bloodworth > Senior User Interaction Designer > Educational Technology Services > University of California, Berkeley > (415) 377-8243 > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________________ > fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, > see http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work > > Allison Bloodworth > Senior User Interaction Designer > Educational Technology Services > University of California, Berkeley > (415) 377-8243 > [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, > see http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work > > -- Clay Fenlason Director, Educational Technology Georgia Institute of Technology (404) 385-6644 _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
