[Design nuances] Date picker redux
Last month we released a completely redesigned Cleartrip date picker.
The new date picker attracted a fair amount of commentary, with the loudest bits of feedback focused on three items:
- The date picker widget was too large, taking up too much screen space
- The distinction between weekdays and weekends was too weak, making it hard to tell them apart
- The colours were perceived to be a little too flat
Armed with those three pieces of feedback, we set out to tweak the date picker. To begin with, we made a 15% reduction in the amount of space the date picker occupies by reducing font size and spacing.
Turning our attention to separating weekdays and weekends, we brightened the background colour for weekdays and lightened the text colour used for weekend dates. We also changed to a black background for your selected date as it provides a higher contrast. Finally, we made any control icons invisible when they're not clickable--previously they were visible, but greyed out.
Voila. With that, we wrap up our spit and polish sessions on the date picker for the moment--we hope you like it even more now. We have a few more ideas for improvements, but they'll have to wait a little bit.
Hrush
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I'm just wondering if separating the weekend by a lightened color imply that weekends are less important than weekdays. I think Weekends are as important as weekdays but just that they should be clearly demarcated.
I am glad you considered two out of my three date picker design recommendations...The size looks proportional now..i still feel we can remove some some real estate along the width of the widget...
Also there is a dotted line that seperates the weekdays and weekends which is clearly visible in firefox but IE misses out on it...I wonder why...
Anyways a change is always welcome....
Keep up the good work..