Feedback requested on Fluid's Date-Time Picker

[will trillich]

Bueno! I knew it'd be in there somewhere, I just overlooked it...


On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Allison Bloodworth
<abloodworth at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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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> Educational Technology Services
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> University of California, Berkeley
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>
> abloodworth at berkeley.edu
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> will trillich -- http://faq.serensoft.com/
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> R.W.Emerson
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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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will trillich -- http://faq.serensoft.com/
"But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy
me something, which does not represent your life and talent."
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