Tuesday, July 30, 2002
New UI for Calendar?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "SOFTWARE" @ 03:00 AM
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?
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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.
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.
