not really a smarter representation, but time manager international http://www.tmiworld.com/ make a range of printed planners etc. I've always loved their year planner booklet because it lets you see a month to a page and plan down to the hour. its schema is similar to the outlook example you mention - days on vertical axis, hours on horizontal
My take-away from things like this is that you get overview and detail in one view.. one of the tenets of a good visualization - in response to your use cases http://dipity.com and http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ are both timeline driven representations that can help (and hinder) seeing resource clash identification etc.. but I haven't seen them being used for that purpose. yet.. similie timeline is implemented as a google gadget, so it's relatively easy to prototype with it using Gspreadsheets dipity eats rss, so again, it's relatively easy to build a prototype to test ideas using pipes or similar actually - having looked at dipity again, it'll be less useful for you because it doesn't support event duration that well.. ps: whenever i think of calendars onscreen, I'm reminded of the section in 'about face' that takes apple to task for the abomination that is iCal :) I think its in the section about implementation model vs experience model (or something like that.. anyone?) On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Joe Sokohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there smart ways to represent time and events that are "better" than > what conventions indicate? > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
