Thanks for this great summary Allison and Erin!
I wonder if it makes sense to create a very draft user testing page
for the next iteration to capture your thoughts below on what should
be tested? I'm not sure that's the best way to capture them just the
first that came to me. I just want to make sure we capture your
questions someplace that we can come back to when the time is right.
-Daphne
On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Allison Bloodworth wrote:
Hi folks,
Thanks so much for all the helpful feedback at the design team
meeting today! Here is what Erin and I are currently planning to do
based on your suggestions. If you have further thoughts, feel free
to let us know, or just respond to this thread.
We plan to remove the yellow highlight of the currently active
section (e.g. hours, minutes, AM/PM) of the Time Picker because it
may make users feel like they *have* to fill it in, and there may
also be accessibility issues with it appearing to give focus to an
element which isn't really in focus.
We feel there should still be an option for a combined date and time
picker in one field, as that is important in more than one Sakai
context and we had great feedback on the combined field/tabbed Date-
Time Picker in user testing. If it tests poorly after it's
implemented, one option would be to display both the date and time
picker at once (next to each other) without any tabs. This would
cover a lot more of the screen, but if it was a necessary tradeoff
to ensure users could understand how it works, it may be worth it.
Mike, could you let us know if after thinking about this more, you
see accessibility issues with the tabbed time picker?
Due to the fact that people may enter the different fields in the
Time Picker in any order (e.g. AM/PM could be first), we will close
it only when:
the user clicks outside the time picker,
the user tabs or presses enter while the time picker is open, OR
the user clicks on or selects (e.g. with the keyboard) something in
Hour, Minutes, and AM/PM if a 12-hour picker, or Hour and Minutes if
a 24-hour picker
We will put 'Noon' above the text field for 12:00pm and 'Midnight
(start of day)' above the text field for 12:00am. The idea is to
prevent errors with users not realizing that midnight is actually
considered the start of the day instead of the end. There is also a
slight amount of ambiguity between midnight and noon, which this
will also resolve. (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock)
When there is an interactive prototype (or early version of the
component) available, we'd like to recommend testing:
whether the tabs of the combined/tabbed Date-Time picker are
confusing. If so, we may want to consider other design solutions for
a combined Date-Time field.
whether users have problems figuring out how to close the time
picker, especially if they are only selecting or changing one or two
of the three options. We could test this by asking them to change a
time from 4pm to 5pm, for instance. If this causes confusion, we may
want to consider putting the close button back.
whether there is a way to provide an accelerator to users of the
Time Picker so they can only click one or two things and it will
close (E.g. if values for Hour and AM/PM are selected, in any order,
but not Minutes). At this point we don't feel we have enough
information to do this and be sure it wouldn't be severely jarring
for some users, so we're erring on the side of caution.
what a user does when they are asked to make an assignment due at
'the very end of the day.' Do they enter 11:59pm or midnight? Do
they enter midnight on the *correct* day? If not, we may want to
consider adding a message which is displayed the first time someone
selects midnight, letting them know this will actually be the
beginning of the selected day.
Thanks again!
Allison & Erin
On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Daphne Ogle wrote:
We'll also be reviewing the Uploader Design Pattern that Paul has
been iterating on.
http://osdpl.fluidproject.org/content/file-upload
See you in a few,
-Daphne
On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Allison Bloodworth wrote:
Hi folks,
We have made some changes to the date and time picker designs
based on our second round of paper prototyping user testing
results (http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Paper+Prototype+User+Testing+-+Round+2+Results?focusedCommentId=5898252#comment-5898252
).
We will be discussing the (near) final designs tomorrow at the
Fluid Design Team meeting, at 11am PST/2pm EST on Breeze (http://connect.yorku.ca/fluidwork
). As always, anyone is welcome to attend this meeting, and if you
will be there, it would be great if you could take a quick look at
these storyboards first:
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Storyboard+-+Date+and+Time+Separate+Fields+with+Defaults
- expect a few more notes tomorrow AM on what is happening in the
later storyboards
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Storyboard+-+Date+and+Time+Combined+Field
- Erin will be working on this Tues AM so changes may be made up
to 10am PST/1pm EST
Developers especially may also be interested in checking out our
storycards, which we are still actively iterating on. The Date
Picker storycards are a bit more complete than time picker at this
point.
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Storycards
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Time+Picker+Storycards
We'd love to hear any feedback folks have on these deliverables.
Thanks!
Allison & Erin
Allison Bloodworth
Senior User Interaction Designer
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
[email protected]
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Senior User Interaction Designer
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
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University of California, Berkeley
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