[Design][Proposal] Lozenge shape

[Mimi Yin]

I've pulled together a list of use cases + a final proposal for 0.7  
event lozenges improvements. Screenshot is below. Thx, Mimi

Use cases that the event lozenge design needs to solve for, in order  
of frequency of use.

Managing and editing a calendar. Making it easy/clear to grab a  
lozenge to move it around on the canvas.
Figuring out when your next meeting/appointment is.
Figuring out what your next meeting/appointment is.
Scanning your own calendar to schedule an appt/meeting or figure out  
a realistic milestone/due date for a task. Which days are packed?  
Which days are relatively light?
Scheduling a meeting with other people (by overlaying your calendar  
with their free/busy or calendar)
Looking for a particular event on your calendar.
Final Proposal

What's new

Lozenge outline is white*, which helps to break up consecutive events  
more effectively in 2 ways:
Creates a higher contrast divider between event lozenges
Breaks up the "event status strips", which currently run uninterruped  
if there are consecutive events
*The white outline was inspired by some studies Priscilla did:  
EventLozengeStudies

Event Status Strip is subtler in several ways:
Default is nothing (for confirmed events)
Striped tentative strip is narrower
FYI strip is narrower as well
Calendar Membership Colors are subtler and replace more and more of  
the Event Status Strip, up to a limit. As a result, you don't ever  
get a whole Event Status Strip + Calendar Membership Colors, thereby  
minimizing the visual noise without losing the meta-data.
@Time and Anytime events are more distinct from events with duration
@Time and Anytime events are distinct from events with duration in a  
semantically meaningful way (they are "less saturated" because they  
don't actually take up time)
Selected calendar lozenges are more distinct from activated, but not  
selected calendars:
Lozenge fill color is more saturated
Text is white on lozenges belonging to the selected calendar
We may also want to consider exploring some alternatives for making  
the Event title more prominent than the Start-time on the lozenge, as  
per Priscilla's mock-ups: EventLozengeStudies

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What we've done:

1. Mimi compiled a list of all the different pieces of meta-data that  
may need to go on the event lozenges and put forth 3 proposals which  
took into dogfood feedback:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/EventLozengeImprovements

2. Mimi did a 4th iteration based on feedback from the list:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ 
EventLozengeImprovements#FourthIteration

3. Priscilla did a pass at the lozenges: http:// 
wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/EventLozengeStudies

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