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Because the simple system works. You set it when you go to bed, and if you don't want to be woken up the next day, just don't set it.
More complicated ones with more features are available if you like, but the common ones do the job in the simplest most intuitive way. Good UX design.
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Some of the standard cues:
Hover state: Make the calendar icon transform when the user hovers it, maybe having the calendar show a grid representing a month on hover.
Contextual text: Write Show month or similar as a link adjacent to the calendar.
Mimic button: Add borders to the icon which makes it appear as a button.
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Neither approach is ideal. You almost need a combination of the two.
If I select that I want something to happen every single month, just because it's on the 31st doesn't mean that I don't want it to reoccur.
I would stop trusting my calendar forever if even once it failed to notify me. Better to assume people want it reoccurring than to just be OCD. Those ...
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I would say it should get progressively louder. There have been very few times when I have set an alarm with no purpose. However, there have been many times when I have hit the snooze button when I shouldn't have due to poor decision making skills in a semi-sleep state. Trust the alert person setting the alarm, not the half-conscious person trying to ignore ...
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With the google calendar on android, you can scroll down from one month to the next and view a whole month - but here's the key: - it's seamlessly attached top and bottom to the previous and next month without having to think about overlapping parts of the week, or having gaps, or having repeated parts of the week, or greying out days that do not belong to ...
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The way outlook handles it is closer to what I would imagine a persons intentions would be when scheduling an appointment. However Outlook doesn't give you the option to handle it differently, which is a mistake.
You should be given the choice which way you would like it handled when you schedule an appointment for a day that each month doesn't have ...
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Try doing a google search on calendar icon and then you capture the results (if worth it). Just by skimming the results I saw that 9 was a popular number, but not far from others.
From the Semiotics perspective 31 might work, as people easily identify it as the maximum number of days a month can get, and design-wise is filling.
I think that only having the ...
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You're not showing the whole context so we can't see how the icon you show fits in to the context of the page.
However, it will help if you make the 'thing' a self contained actionable item - most usually in the form of a button (whatever style suits your theme) and also add a call to action (eg show calendar) or a label (Calendar).
For more information ...
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I would show a calendar picker with non-selectable days grayed out. When the user hovers over the non-selectable day, I would display a tool tip explaining why that date isn't selectable.
For instance, here's an example of blackout dates from MSDN:
(Sidenote: Are you sure there's a reason for having the user select their shipping date? In most ...
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If I write myself a note and put it somewhere, it acts as a constant low level reminder. I can walk past it numerous times and I can ignore it or act upon it. If I don't wish to act on it the next time I see it, it's presence is not enough to annoy me.
If I set a reminder on my mobile, I usually have to pick a specific time. If it's an appointment or ...
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If I were to design an alarm clock, I would make it neither louder nor softer. Instead, I would go for shorter and shorter snooze periods, until it refuses to snooze anymore.
I can't really see a case for a softer alarm, including the one that you described. As for louder, there are many situations were louder will wake up others, e.g. a roommate or ...
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The Right Information
Firstly, make sure your displays show the information the user needs to make good decisions and input. The use of a color-coded matrix assumes that your user is trying to achieve a certain pattern of assignments, such as a certain number of people in each duty type per day (e.g., have adequate coverage when some are on vacation), or ...
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I've seen it both ways. One argument in support of swiping/scrolling vertically between months is that, because of the way dates are listed in columns according to the day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc.), being able to simply follow that column down from month to month is slightly less disorientating that scrolling horizontally and then finding ...
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Another option to consider is adjusting some of the visual elements to reinforce the "I'm clickable" nature of the graphic. I would suggest making the "Today" label the same color as the primary link color you are using on the site (or perhaps use that color in the background gradient). The current white on gray gradient has contrast and readability problems ...
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With desktops, The question you need to answer here is the effective use of real estate or screen space. Though most computers have pretty high resolutions now,providing a full sized calender does take up a lot of space and might not be effective in terms of best use of the available screen space. However if your calender is a critical part of your design ...
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While I agree that the simple design does work, there is a place, I think, for more advances in the development of alarm clocks, as long as the complexity of setting them is not hugely increased.
I have a Digital Radio alarm clock, and I woudl really like to be able to set different stations for waking me up in the morning and other times - like at night to ...
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It makes sense to show the dates as a calendar, as it can be fairly self-explanatory means of indicating weekends and holidays up front, without too much extra messaging.
I've shown an example from an online grocery site in the UK called Ocado. When picking dates there's a help icon above the calendar pops open a legend to explain the shading on dates. This ...
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My alarm clock does this, and it's brillant!
I don't buy the "because simple is best" argument in this case, for the reason that the alarm clock I own is simple to use, never wakes me up at the weekend and I never forget to set it on weekdays either—it's already done it for me. A great enhancement.
I can't believe more alarm clocks don't have this feature.
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My guess is that there are many reasons:
people are traditional.
we're still analog creatures.
paper has a friendly UI, is high resolution, easy to manipulate.
paper is conspicuous.
For me, personally, for little to-dos, it's just quicker for me to write it down on paper than it is to turn on my phone, open an app, go to the proper place, open the mini ...
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I'm currently working on a project for an interactive design class where I'll be redesigning a calendar. As part of that, I've been informally interviewing almost everyone I encounter about whether they use paper vs. phone / laptop / etc. and their likes and dislikes.
A surprising number of people who are otherwise very technically inclined have said that ...
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I work at an online scheduling software company (I hope you don't :) so I hope my answer is worth it's salt.
For simultaneous events, you need to separate each location into as many slots as the location can handle. A design like location one would be ideal but it gets tricky fast when events don't start or end on the same time. Engineering will quickly ...
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An option is to have a Week column on the side of your date picker, clicking the week's number would highlight the whole row of dates for that week the same way selecting the day (presumably) highlights the selected item:
If you don't have enough room to spell out Week on the week column you might want to have a tooltip on hover to give a bit of ...
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It depends on the kind of event you're helding.
Usually, an event like this needs a one-off design - it's not that it cannot be done procedurally (like with a jQuery plugin), but as it's unlikely to be modified after the initial upload, it's fine to create it as a static page.
A simple table or even a list would do, depending on the breath of a conference.
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Beyond a doubt, to keep it simple and intuitive, I'd definitely go with a variant of version 1, but I'd do away with text inputs, options, checkboxes and such, and replace them with a couple of calendar interactions to cover the different input possibilities, clearly explained beneath the calendar:
download bmml source – Wireframes created with ...
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If you are finding that a lot of your users are double checking that the date is correct, or that reservations are having to be corrected later because the date is wrong, then an extra verification that the date is the one selected wouldn't hurt.
For example - on my phone when I write a text I select the recipient(s) from a list of names. However, back on ...
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I haven't designed or used such a system but here are some thoughts.
A lot depends on the usage patterns of your users, what is the main timescale that they work in, i.e. do people announce their availability mainly in months, weeks or days, are they marking availability or unavailability, are they marking a lot of contiguous time spans or are there a lot ...
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I agree that they're related. Maybe it makes sense to think about them in an object-oriented model with inheritance: find out the common ground, define a parent "class" and have both only implement the differences. For example, you could treat the title and description text somewhat similar, but their time constraints are vastly different.
I currently ...
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I think that it's a matter of logical connections. People need to be reminded of things while they're in a certain headspace. When they're on their work computer, it's good to get reminders stating that they have a meeting in two hours. When someone is about to look into their fridge, it's good to see the post-it on their fridge saying that they need to buy ...
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For most people, it's quicker to use pen and paper to write a short list and to stick it somewhere 'unmissable', than it is to use their phone and keypad/swipe etc.
It isn't yet second nature for us to fire up our phones to set reminders, but I dare say that in about 10 years from now it will be.
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