A visual element that shows dates organised in a structured manner, often to allow selection of a date or chronologically group information.
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How to show navigation on Calendar Picker Overlay?
I am designing a web app in which the data is stored in time order.
Users can browser different kinds of appointments in daily or weekly calendar view.
When you click on the current date, the overlay ...
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Proper web UI elements to select interval between snapshots?
Let us assume that I have a system where temperature, humidity, rain, etc. measurements are recorded at certain dates & times for certain locations (let us call them "snapshots").
This is just ...
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Timezone madness in task management app
I am currently working on a task management application that allows users to create and assign tasks, set start and due dates and track work progress.
In my app users do not plan hours, they just set ...
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Calendar recurrences on the last day of the month
I noticed a difference in how Google Calendar and Outlook handle recurring appointments, specifically ones that are on the end of the month. If you try to schedule an appointment on the 31st of every ...
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Any ideas for a 'Today' icon? [closed]
I'm working on an app at the moment. I'm trying to replace the text with icons to allow easier transition to international markets.
One icon I'm struggling with is a 'today'. I've thought about a ...
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Designing a calendar for school
Problem: Develop an easy to use school calendar for web + print.
Prerequisites:
1. School has several teachers. Currently 7 but grows.
2. Each teacher can have multiple groups (average 1-5).
3. ...
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calendar alternate views - aim for clean UI
I am making a scheduling application where a user will be presented with a calendar, see the available time slots and book the slot that he wants.
The decision I cannot make is whether this calendar ...
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Best Practice for Integrating Shared Cultural/Religious Calendars with Business Calendars
What is the most appropriate way to enable users integrate religious calendars and prayer times (Islamic Hijrah or Thai Solar for example) with the Gregorian calendars that might all can be shared ...
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Visualizing daily Event schedule with WPF
I am in conceptual phase of a little utility to help our support team identify what is about to happen, and what should have happened but didn't.
basically our system is scheduled to do many things. ...
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DatePicker UX for single and multiple calendar mode
I have a situation where I have to use same datepicker/calendar to do single date selection and multiple date selection in two different modes in the same page.
I thought of a solution where the ...
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What is the best UI for an out of office application
I am building a tool to track out of office for my team. The main view is a month calendar view. Right now you get a certain amount of vacation (lets say 10 days). People can take full days and we ...
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What alternatives to calendars exist for inputing dates on websites?
Inputing dates is going through changes on the internet, and in web/user interface design as well.
Currently, I'm implementing <input type="date">, as this provides excellent usability on mobile ...
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Make calendar icon obviously clickable
On a webpage there is a calendar that shows just the current day of the month. When that calendar is clicked, a current month's calendar pops up. How can I make it obvious that the calendar is ...
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Calendar view. Current day + 4 days in advance
Can not consider myself as UX guy, just wondering if someone came across of calendars UX.
We have a requirement to show a week with where the current day should be the third day of the week despite ...
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What should be ideal date on calendar icon?
I am designing a calendar icon for an app, I am putting a random date right now on it, what should be ideal date that I should put. Is there any usability research done on the same?
I know the best ...
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Website Design Event Calendar [closed]
I have a registration website for an upcoming event. I have a link (itinerary) on the page that takes them to another page showing them the itinerary for the event. The problem is, I don't have ...
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How to select a small range from a calendar
I'm developing a website that involves the display of a calendar of events.
A calendar that is able to view events for several days interval is what is desired.
My crude interpretation of these is ...
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select a work week schedule
In my web application I want the user to select his work schedule. For example, someone could select [Sunday (8AM - 5PM), Monday (9AM-1PM , 2PM-6PM) ...etc. So the user has the freedom to select any ...
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Is swiping up/down better than swiping left/right for changing months on a calendar?
I have created a custom View to display a Calendar in Android.
The display is always 1 month. I'm using a swipe to the sides to switch months. Now I have seen some other Apps (including the installed ...
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Select one week out of a monthly calendar
So I have a monthly calendar on the upper side of my page. Users are able to select on a specific day inside this calendar and a the bottom part will dynamically list events occurring at that day.
I ...
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Would it be better to show a calendar picker by default instead of an input field with pop-up date picker?
On a travel site which is for Desktop, iPhone, iPad too, would it be better for UX and Accessibility to show the calendar itself on page by default
Like this
Or the most popular way, a input box ...
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How to show multiple calendar events simultaneously?
![enter image description here][1]The calendar layout has taken on a sort of TV schedule layout with the list of event locations along the y axis. The x axis displays times and the user would be able ...
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Time slot selection
I'm on a quest to find the most user friendly way to offer a time slot selection to make an appointment in a company's calendar/agenda.
It doesn't really matter much interface-wise, but because it ...
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What's the best way to show 'multi-slots' on a calendar widget?
So we have data that is to be searched based on date, time and preferred duration. Think of it like a meeting scheduling system with a search functionality of finding a meeting room at one of the many ...
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Assigning working hours on a duty roster
Here's a screenshot of the duty calendar in the system I'm working on (I've deleted all names here for privacy reasons).
Each person can have a day of particular type (listed in the legend above: ...
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Localizing due dates in a task list
I am currently working on a calendaring application that needs to deal with a list of tasks that the user can create.
In all calendaring applications I have used (outlook, thunderbird, google ...
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User Response to Transposed Calendar Representation
I am investigating the use of a transposed calendar, in which the rows are the days of the week and the columns are the weeks. Has anyone researched this usage? Does anyone have any examples of this ...
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Behaviour of a user diary with both general patterns and specific entries
I'm working on an application that allows users to keep a 'diary' of times they are available to work. The interface is very simple, and deals purely with ad-hoc availability. It's effectively a ...
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Why people tend to go traditional instead of using their cool reminder phone app?
We all have some cool reminders applications in our phones, that have all the features to remind as at a specific time a task we have to do.
Besides this, as I read in a review/survey, people tend ...
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Why do alarm clocks not all come with 5/7 day alarms for the working week?
In all the advances in usability why do alarm clocks still wake us up on Saturday? Why not only Monday to Friday instead of being set every night?
Do we have to rely on our mobile phone if we want ...
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Visualize many appointments for a week view
I'm trying to display "the week" for appointment scheduling. The problem is that my current implementation is way too busy (but it does put everything on the table). Also, the page easily gets taller ...
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When Users Select a Ship Date During Holiday
In a shopping cart where a user can select their preferred ship date, how would you alert them when a date is a holiday or weekend? Would you use processing to not allow it? Add an alert that it would ...
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What is the optimal alarm handling for a calendar (or todo) event?
I am not statisfied with current alarm handling methods. It got worse, when I moved to my current home, which is a small town, 20 km to the capital. The problem is, that IMHO there should be more than ...
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How to handle todos, appointments: separate, integrated or use hybrid term?
I've just switched from PalmOS (Tréo) to webOS (Palm/HP Pré), and surprised that there are some issues, where we've step back.
On PalmOS I was using DateBk, where todos appeared above the calendar in ...
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Date picker subtleties: Input year by using numeric keys
We are developing a date picker and have run into a problem related to interpretation of user input.
Suppose you have a date picker as the one in the picture below and the user is to change the year ...
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Availability calendar
On our website, we need users to have an availability calendar to set the availability of items they have for rent. We of course want to keep the use of the calendar as simple as possible.
What is a ...
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On date select field, should the weekday be displayed after selection ?
I have a date selection field in a reservation field. The standard popin calendar is there to help users select a date, with a the top the weekday names in short form. After the day is selected, there ...
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Snoozing an alarm: should the alarm grow progressively louder or softer?
Hypothetical design question: upon snoozing an alarm, should the alarm grow progressively louder or softer?
Case for louder: you’ve been snoozing too much; wake up now.
Case for softer: maybe you ...
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How to visualize a calendar with a vast amount of recurring events?
Many of the events are recurring daily or weekly but are only interesting to the user once.
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Best way to display numerous dates on a data form?
I've got the task of finding a way to display numerous (10) dates on a data entry form. They pertain to the dates that certain paperwork was received, acknowledged, evaluated, etc.
All the dates are ...
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Alternative to calendar view
Working on a site that requires the user to be able to input events into a 'diary' over a specified duration (say 4-21 June).
The obvious interface for me is an interactive calendar, but at a recent ...
