[Design] Design Session 2 on Stamping and Communications

[Morgen Sagen]

On Mar 15, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Thanks for putting together the mockups Morgen.
>
> An alternative we might consider would be model this use case in  
> the same way we do recurring events. (This was a point that we  
> didn't quite iron out in yesterday's meeting)
>
> So you have a Book: Time Traveler's Wife. And there is a series of  
> events about this book. If you could violate the laws of physics,  
> you might "Put this book" on the calendar in multiple places...so  
> that you could use the Book itself as the reminder for what the  
> meeting was about. (ie. Putting the dentist's business card in your  
> Day Planner on the day you have an appt to go to the dentist).
>
> Each event is a custom recurrence in the series, represented as a  
> row-item in the summary table:
>
> SUMMARY TABLE VIEW
> Book club: Time Traveler's Wife @Lizzy's House on Mar 10, 2005
> Book signing: Time Traveler's Wife @Cody's Books on Apr 3, 2006
> Lecture series: Time Traveler's Wife @UC Berkeley on Sep 19, 2006

I'm not trying to be a pain, I just want to make sure we really have  
a valid example here...  I couldn't find a way to create such a  
recurring event.  Would the user make it recurring-monthly or  
something, ending on a specific date, and then go through the  
calendar deleting the events that aren't really happening?  Even if  
you could, those seem more like 3 discrete events to me, not a  
recurring event.  As a user I would rather be viewing the book in the  
detail view and have affordances for attaching an event* to the book;  
or be viewing the week view, creating an event on the appropriate day  
and attaching the book** to the event (by dragging, or having a +Book  
button in the detail view like in my mockup).

> In the DETAIL VIEW you might have fields like:
>
> WHO ATTRIBUTES
> Host: (Book club event)
> Guest: (Book signing)
> Lecturer: (Lecture series)

Do you mean when I am viewing the detail view of the book I would see  
all three of the above attributes at the same time?

~morgen***

* Or multiple events
** Or multiple books
*** I'm fond of footnotes today for some reason.