Design question re: Date Picker - displaying dates in next/previous months in current month's grid

[Justin]

Would it also make sense, not to allow the user to move backwards in  
time, that is prevent them from choosing a month or year that is  
before the open date. This won't help with days in the same month but  
it may help if they go back a month or year by accident and are  
confused because it is all the same colour.

- Justin
On 4-Feb-09, at 9:11 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:

>
> On 3-Feb-09, at 2:53 PM, Allison Bloodworth wrote:
>
>> 3) We haven't come up with a great design solution to strongly  
>> distinguish non-selectable dates (e.g. when entering a Due Date for  
>> an assignment, dates *before* the Open Date shouldn't be  
>> selectable) and dates in the previous month.
>
> In some date pickers I've seen that distinguish between pickable and  
> non-pickable dates (e.g. hotel room availability), the distinction  
> is made with green and red coloured backgrounds. I've always found  
> that to be pretty obvious, given our existing common associations  
> with those colours. They could probably be combined with grey vs.  
> black foreground colours for the month distinctions? You'd probably  
> have to play with shading, etc., and I do see that you already use  
> background colours to distinguish weekdays from weekends, but maybe  
> it's an idea to start with?
>
> -- 
> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
> Software Designer, Fluid Project    http://fluidproject.org
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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