Date Picker Show & Tell Part 2

[Allison Bloodworth]

Hi folks,

Thanks much for all your great comments! Erin and I are currently  
trying to determine which direction to go with the time picker (e.g.  
we are considering doing a short user test on multiple options), and  
if possible would like to do a short design review of the current two  
different time picker options at the design team meeting tomorrow at  
11am PDT on Breeze. If folks attending the meeting could take a look  
at them beforehand and anyone not attending the meeting could send  
their comments to the list, that would be great.

Here are the two options, which are both located at the bottom of  
their respective page:

#1: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Storyboard+-+Selecting+Opening+Date+and+Time

#2: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Wireframes

Paul, thank you for pointing out a nuance in the time picker that we  
didn't address. I like your suggestion about changing AM/PM to noon/ 
midnight. As you suggest, perhaps some competitive analysis and user  
testing is in order to determine whether this is the right approach.

Cheers,
Allison

On Dec 2, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Paul Zablosky wrote:

> Looking at the wireframes for the time picker, I have been wondering  
> about how you plan to distinguish between 12:00 noon and 12:00  
> midnight. I couldn't find an answer to this in the design pages.  Do  
> you plan to have the AM/PM change to Noon/Midnight when exactly  
> 12:00 o'clock is displayed?  This is probably the best way to get  
> around the usual confusion on this topic, but it may also be  
> worthwhile to do a bit of user testing as well.
>
> Paul
>
> Erin Yu wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Here is where Allison and I are at regarding Date Picker.
>>
>> We have tested our initial design with the users using paper  
>> prototypes. The date picker was a familiar and straightforward  
>> interaction to them, whereas the wheel-like time picker wasn't as  
>> popular. Many users thought the hour, minute, and am/pm wheels were  
>> stuck together and rotated together. We think that the users might  
>> have perceived it differently if the visual cues and interaction of  
>> a dynamic implementation were available. Jacob was able to quickly  
>> put together an interactive prototype of the time picker, and we'd  
>> like to test it with the users to see if it's better. We will send  
>> out the link to the prototype when it is ready.
>>
>> The user testing results are posted here:
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Paper+Prototype+User+Testing+-+Round+1+Results
>>
>> The storyboards shown to the users are posted here:
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Storyboard+-+Selecting+Opening+Date+and+Time
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Storyboard+-+Selecting+Due+Date+and+Time
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Storyboard+-+Selecting+Opening+Date+and+Time
>>
>> Based on the user feedback, we slightly modified the behaviour of  
>> mouse-overed, selected, and previously selected dates. The new  
>> design is posted here:
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Wireframes
>>
>> We had a productive discussion about the date and time picker with  
>> Antranig and Jonathan at the all-hands.  One of the technical  
>> concerns was that since the time picker wheel is fixed around the  
>> text field, it might get cut off when the text field is at the very  
>> bottom of the page. Eli did a quick test and was able to tell us  
>> that when the the time picker pops up at the bottom of the page,  
>> the extra area of the page can become scrollable to show the full  
>> length of the time picker.
>>
>> Some of us thought it would be a good idea to put date and time  
>> picker in one text field/ one pop-up, others thought it would be  
>> better to separate the two. Let us know if you think one  
>> interaction or the other would better suit your use cases or be  
>> more usable for your users. We've also explored the tabbed picker  
>> that toggles between date and time once you've picked them. A rough  
>> draft of this idea is shown at the bottom of this page (also shows  
>> a modified version of the time picker):
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Wireframes
>>
>> Thanks for reading!
>> More to come,
>> Allison & Erin
>>
>>
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Allison Bloodworth
Senior User Interaction Designer
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
abloodworth at berkeley.edu




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