Blofeld’s Busy Week
August 22nd, 2005
Categories: Interaction, Interface
Notes
- The scaling would work similar to the Mac OS X Dock. Several years ago, I saw a demo of what I felt was a less disorienting version of scaling. Rather than moving the objects to the sides horizontally, the magnified object was pushed “in front” of the others, which remained more or less stationary. I can’t find the link to the online demo.
- The timeline would allow continuous horizontal scrolling.
- Click on an appointment to lock that day into focus.
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a busy man.
This design would be best for a short-range view like those provided by various Konfabulator and Dashboard widgets. I’ve got a few ideas for a more complete calendar design.
I’m trying to decide if the fact that the times do not line up across multiple days would be a usablilty drawback… Did you consider that?
That is a potential problem, but I think the position of the hour indicators is enough to make it negligible. The more common table view does have the advantage of consistent positioning.
Even-t had a similar concept where the selected day is much wider than the other days. This becomes really helpful when looking at multiple calendars at a time,
http://www.even-u.com/blog/
I’m all for mashing up other data types with Dock-like magnification interaction,
http://www.usercreations.com/robb/people.html