[Design] Design + Usability, Useful + Usable

[Davor Cubranic]

On Wednesday 12 December 2007 02:00:29 Mimi Yin wrote:
> My understanding of the question was: Why use a complicated new
> widget to do what everybody else uses a simple checkbox for? My reply
> was that the functionality in Chandler isn't the same as the
> functionality everybody else uses a simple checkbox for. So it's
> possible our problem has more to do with providing better visual
> feedback to more effectively communicate what's different about
> Chandler overlays.

I started up iCal the other day to see what it's like and noticed that 
its calendar sidebar appears to be very similar to Chandler's sidebar: 
multiple calendars (collections) can be overlaid on the screen, but 
only one is "selected" and new events go into it by default. I haven't 
used iCal enough to completely test this, but are there any significant 
differences from Chandler's sidebar? I'm asking because iCal uses 
checkboxes for choosing overlays and a highlight for the active 
selection.

Davor