Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign(blog.thunderbird.net) |
Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign(blog.thunderbird.net) |
Look,at the header image and glance in the middle of the Wednesday column vs the middle of Sunday’s or Monday’s column. Very little visual distinction: you have to ask, am I looking at a long event or the ‘today’ highlight?
People who use calendars for work-related purposes typically want work-week focused views.
None of this is new. Which speaks to the people developing/designing this. (Or maybe they have incorporated this but the handful of screenshots aren't exposing them).
They aren't dogfooding this - or if they are - they aren't the power users - people whose typical day have more appointments scheduled than free time.
They need to seek out the power users so their design doesn't preclude use-cases (or at least make them very awkward).
Here's a freebie - for monthly view - the day that is highlighted should get a detailed day view as a sidebar.
I'd like to get back to having a desktop email and calendar client over using a browser all the time.
Fantastical, Readdle and Apple Calendar have slightly fresher UI that could be good inspiration.
They've been talking about redesigning Thunderbird for years now, but I'm honestly not sure I've noticed any difference at all in my actual use.
In other words, I like them all as separate windows, while I compare websites, notes, on the phone, and then adding or editing all these things while talking to people too.
Making the Calendar view, an the list of emails as two separate windows would be amazing.
Thank you Thunderbird team!
Like is this just a mockup I'm not understanding correctly?
Traffic lights are one thing you shouldn’t mess with IMO.