Feedback requested on Fluid's Date-Time Picker

Tue Dec 23 00:32:15 UTC 2008

Hi Will,

Thanks much for the feedback! Yes, though it isn't really illustrated  
on the storyboards or wireframes, the ability to specify the date-time  
format is described in Storycard #5 "Allow user to interact with and  
type dates in the text field." I just edited it a bit to try to make  
it more clear:

Determine the format of any populated date text field (e.g. mm-dd- 
yyyy), and the format of the date text fields when the date picker is  
closed by:
Allowing implementers to specify the default date format.
Allowing the date picker to receive input from the a particular user's  
preferences settings about how they would like to format the date field.

The Date Picker Storycards are available at: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Storycards 
. We'll have something very similar for the Time Picker.

Cheers,
Allison

On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:33 PM, will trillich wrote:

> This looks like great progress! Love the wireframes, the storyboards,
> the user-testing -- well done!
>
> I've got a question, of course :) -- I presume the date-formats are
> locale-friendly or at least formattable via settings somehow? Such as
> 25-Dec-2008 or 2008-12-25 or 25/12/2008 etc? (If that's discussed in
> the date-picker pages I obviously missed it...)
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Allison Bloodworth
> <abloodworth at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Hello Sakai community!
>> At the Fluid Project (http://wiki.fluidproject.org) one of our main
>> activities is designing and developing usable and accessible user  
>> interface
>> components for you to integrate into your applications.
>> We hope that the Date-Time Picker we are currently working on could  
>> be used
>> in many of your applications and would love any feedback you could  
>> give us
>> on it See the email below for more info, and free to contact Erin  
>> or me (or
>> the fluid-work mailing list, in cc:) with any questions. The Date  
>> Picker
>> Design Overview page
>> (http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Design+Overview 
>> )
>> also has additional background on the component.
>> Thanks very much, and happy holidays!
>> Allison
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> From: Allison Bloodworth <abloodworth at berkeley.edu>
>> Date: December 18, 2008 8:39:36 PM PST
>> To: Fluid Mailing List <fluid-work at fluidproject.org>
>> Subject: Date-Time Picker Update
>> Hi folks,
>> Erin and I have been making progress on the Date-Time Picker, and  
>> have some
>> new wireframes available for review
>> at: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker 
>> +Wireframes. We
>> are still trying to determine whether to use a "tabbed" (see  
>> wireframes) or
>> "rolling" time picker (see wireframes
>> and  http://ets-dev.berkeley.edu:8901/trunk/html/timepicker.html).  
>> If both
>> seem like feasible options to the community, we plan to do user  
>> testing on
>> both of them asap in January. Please let us know if you have  
>> feedback on how
>> either of these two options would work in your context.
>> One potential advantage of the tabbed time picker is that it can be  
>> more
>> easily combined with the date picker in cases where date-time is a  
>> single
>> field (e.g. Mneme & Modules in Sakai,
>> see http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Contexts+of+Use) 
>> .
>> We'd be very interested in hearing from the community about whether  
>> it would
>> be a problem to split date & time into two fields in these (or other)
>> situations. If so, we are thinking about other options for  
>> combining the
>> 'rolling' time picker with the date picker, but are not sure these  
>> two
>> pieces are well-suited to becoming a combined component.
>> We've also been working on localization & internationalization  
>> guidelines
>> for the Date-Time Picker
>> (http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker+Functional+Specification 
>> ),
>> and would love to have any input from folks on things we may be  
>> missing.
>> Finally, we are in the process of creating storycards for the Date  
>> Picker
>> portion of the component only (since the Time Picker is still in  
>> flux).
>> Check them out
>> at: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Date+Picker 
>> +Storycards --
>> though they are still in draft form, we'd love to hear from  
>> developers as to
>> whether the way we've started to organize them makes sense.
>> Happy almost holidays, everyone!
>> Allison & Erin
>> Allison Bloodworth
>> Senior User Interaction Designer
>> Educational Technology Services
>> University of California, Berkeley
>> (415) 377-8243
>> abloodworth at berkeley.edu
>>
>>
>>
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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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