[Design] Design Session 2 on Stamping and Communications

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Morgen, see below:


On Mar 15, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

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

Not being a pain at all. There is no UI for this right now. This is  
the idea that someone can create a custom event series with custom  
dates.  A more common use case would be more like:

Let's say someone is a nut about Milton's Paradise Lost and goes  
around finding all the events in the Bay area that are about this  
Paradise Lost and creates a Milton's Paradise Lost event series that  
they share with fellow John Milton nuts.

Again, I recognize this is an advanced use case. I'm just exploring  
to address concerns some people have raised about how far we can push  
Stamping.

You could also imagine a movie theater planning out their movie  
schedule this way as well.

South Pacific will be on view on the following days at the following  
times. When people click on the event, they can see all the info  
about the Movie, right on the event. (Just as Jeffrey wished he could  
see the Agenda for the Design Session right on the event in the  
Office calendar).


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

Yes and No. The first book/event item would have: Host, the second  
would have Guest, the third would have Lecturer. The book item  
however, is spread out across 3 occurrences of the book/event series.

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