07-30-2002, 11:00 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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New UI for Calendar?
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2002/07-29msrsummit.asp
As someone who has been using Pocket Informant for nearly two years, I can tell you that Calendar needs a new interface. Ben Bederson, presumably a .NET developer or project manager, has been working on a new UI for your calendar and is playing with it on the Pocket PC. "So I want to show you this calendar interface that I've been developing for Pocket PC and it's running over here on this device. So our goal has been to support better planning and analysis tasks for calendar interfaces. So at the University of Maryland we developed this product called Date Lens. It's written in C#, and uses the .NET Compact Framework, and runs on Pocket PC, and there are other devices, as I'll show you. So it uses visualization, simple interaction and fish-eye distortions to navigate and so you can quickly see how this works over here. We just have to go to different dates and move around like this." So you can read more about the presentation at the link above but unfortunately there are no screen shots. (Is that "so" thing an MS thing or a Seattle thing?  )
It is also very interesting the amount of exposure the Pocket PC is getting with Mr. Gates. "Well, that's fantastic to see what you've done with .NET, and that is a wonderful UI. I'd love to have it on my Pocket PC." Source: JerryTroll
UPDATE! rkrosen has found some screenshots and posted them inside the thread.
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07-30-2002, 11:36 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Unless I'm missing something, in talking about this nifty new UI someone neglected to show any screenshots!
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07-30-2002, 11:36 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Ben Bederson is at the University of Maryland. A description of the DateLens project is at http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/datelens/ (apparently it used to be called "FishCal"). I've added one screenshot and there are more at the site. No download right now.
This UI doesn't particularly appeal to me -- seems too cluttered.
- Rob
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07-30-2002, 11:44 AM
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07-30-2002, 12:21 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Re: New UI for Calendar?
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
As someone who has been using Pocket Informant for nearly two years, I can tell you that Calendar needs a new interface.
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Hmm, I dunno. I never thought that Pocket Informant or Agenda Fusion were more useful to me. The additional info made it too cluttered for my taste.
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07-30-2002, 12:50 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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So there's someone working on calendar. So that's very good. So I wonder why there are people devoted to tweaking a UI that doesn't need tweaking when there are still parts of the core OS that don't work right? So I think that maybe someone needs to revisit some of their strategy, so they can decrease the problems these devices have so there aren't so many of us who get frustrated with them on a daily basis.
(In case you couldn't tell, there should be <sarcasm> </sarcasm> around the above)
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07-30-2002, 01:04 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
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If that fish thing is the new UI, I have to say that I preferred the old one, less is more.
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07-30-2002, 02:24 PM
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Editorial Contributor
Join Date: Jun 2007
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The video at the site gives a better demo than any screen shots. Funny it is not in wma 
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07-30-2002, 02:38 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Originally Posted by Sven
The video at the site gives a better demo than any screen shots. Funny it is not in wma |
Could you provide the URL to the video?
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07-30-2002, 02:48 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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