Hi IXDA'ers, I was trawling through the archives looking for a suitable discussion topic to post against, and this one came up.
I was recently inspired by a blog entry concerning calendar-based date/time pickers<http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/lovemores-world/2009/02/25/an-effective-jquery-date-time-picker>to create a more intuitive date/time picker. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but some calendar controls frustrate me as a user. Sometimes I'm forced to use a calendar control because it's easier than interpreting the format for the single date field. Anyway, the post got me thinking about a different approach to date/time pickers, leaning heavily on those old mechanical alarm clocks that had dials or cogs next to the hour and minute displays. Read more on the idea here: http://ndorfin.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/rl-date-picker/ Will this idea end up being harder to understand than a fly-out calendar picker? i.e. Does convention over-rule out-of-the-box UI ideas? Has anyone had any experience testing up-down-arrow or slider controls in web-based forms? Could something like my 'tumbler' idea work if the graphic design is done properly? I'd love to have some feedback on this idea. Thanks! Cheers, Shaun On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Pietro Desiato <pietro.desi...@gmail.com>wrote: > hi all, > > I think that the date format could be an issue. I'd rather prefer a > text field for day and year and a dropdown for month (it's also > easier to select the month instead of either writing it or understand > which format has been used). If you feel that the conversational > paradigm is the way to go (as I do), think also about the label you > want to associate to these fields. Maybe (I don't know your > context\users) you can "melt" these input fileds with the label. > Something like "I am born on [month dropdown] [day], [year]. Imho > the calendar is a complex interaction (opening, browsing, selecting, > closing) and I'd avoid it. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36010 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
