[Design] Lozenge shape

[Mitchell Kapor]

My initial reaction is that these designs all try to cram too many  
visual distinctions to represent the different nuances of event meta- 
data.  I'd rather have a cleaner and more legible look even if it  
meant given up some of the nuances.


On Apr 13, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ 
> EventLozengeImprovements
>
> So of course, just as I replied to matt saying that the @time and  
> anytime lozenges wouldn't change very much, Mitch's email prompted  
> me to have another go at the event lozenges in the calendar, which  
> prompted me to draw a laundry list of all the pieces of meta-data  
> that should/could go on the event lozenge...which turned out to be  
> rather long.
>
> Note: Apparently it is hard to draw the solid banner at the top of  
> the event lozenge, which is why we didn't consider this design for  
> 0.6 (a la iCal) (Alec, correct me if I'm wrong)
>
> Mimi :o)
>
> On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:59 AM, Mitchell Kapor wrote:
>
>> I'm now dogfooding 0.6.1.  I've put away iCal, at least for a  
>> week.  So far, so good, as they say.  My assistant, Esther Sun,  
>> keeps my calendar, so my primary use case is frequently consulting  
>> it to see what I have to do next, what the current day is like ,  
>> or how busy is a specified interval in the future.  I have a  
>> fairly full calendar and it is not unusual to have 4 or 5  
>> consecutive appointments of 30 or 60 minutes duration each.
>>
>> The visual separation between multiple consecutive events is not  
>> up to par.  The problem is that it's hard to tell where one event  
>> ends and the next begins.  The shape of each event is rectangular  
>> on the left side and nearly so on the right, with only a very  
>> small curved cut-out at the top and bottom edge.  I think it would  
>> really help if the event "lozenge" was actually more lozenge- 
>> shaped so that a series of consecutive events would read more as a  
>> set of oval lozenges stacked on top of one another rather than a  
>> stack of slightly defective legos._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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