Does anyone know where the convention of calendars and date pickers starting the week on Sunday came from?
I have a strong personal preference for Monday for work-related tasks (and have customized accordingly, whenever this is supported: iCal, Google Calendar, Zimbra). But when I mentioned this to colleagues for a work week tracker I'm designing, they pointed out that most components start the week on Sunday. And in a quick round of research (travel sites plus a few calendaring systems and widget libraries), that Sunday default turns out to be far more of a standard than I expected. Is this a good design pattern I just haven't come around to, or are component defaults far more influential than even ux designers knew? Where does the work week start on Sunday, besides Tel Aviv? Or was someone simply trying to disambiguate between S (Sunday) and S (Saturday) by separating them? Persuade me, please. Thanks! Diana ________________________________________________________________ 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
