[Design] Negotiation and Scheduling

[Davor Cubranic]

Mimi Yin wrote:
> Below is just one proposal for how we might improve the negotiation  
> process for scheduling. Cutting down noise in negotiation, while  
> providing a flexible framework for important discussion that's easy  to 
> keep track of.

I love the fuzzy time frame workflow. This would leave Outlook eating 
dust big time.

I have a feeling the user experience for crafting a response to an 
invitation will be the real challenge to design, precisely because of 
the kinds of situations like "Joyce said any time Wednesday was good for 
her, but didn't explicitly say Tuesday wasn't an option". Giving too 
many options for ranking or an elaborate UI to express preferences would 
make it a real pain to use. Maybe if a user only makes say three top 
choices, and then the response "behind the scenes" includes other 
possible times that would still work for the user, it would be easier to 
go into subsequent rounds of negotiation once the first round failed.

Davor