Thirteen23.com: Great Ux for Scheduling
Sad that I'm just running the cool scheduling app that Thirteen23.com put together for Mix08. I think I tried before Mix...but I had some special builds of WPF installed, so the app didn't work on my machines.
Now my machines are happier and I can see the really nice User Experience (Ux)! Even though picking sessions to see @ Mix08 doesn't make much sense anymore, seeing as it already happened, I recommend you run this app and learn from it:
- Launch it from their page. It uses ClickOnce to install.
- Click on the different days of the week on the top. It transitions nicely to the schedule for that day.
- Go to Thursday. Click on "Click here to change" in the 8:30am timeslot. It transitions to a list of sessions.
- Choose "What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5". It transitions back to the schedule for that day.
- Nice use of animations, etc...
Couple of additional things I'd want to see:
- It'd be nice to be able to search for a term like "WPF" to filter sessions in a slot for technologies you are most interested in.
- Now that Mix is over, it'd be cool to provide a rich client experience for viewing the videos online..a session picking tool that also covers viewing the sessions afterwards.
Shouldn't TechEd/PDC use this kind of thing? What else would you want it to do?
Update (4/15/2008): I just ran across a Silverlight scheduling application as well. Clearly not as well polished, but it may be useful to folks