CalendarPicker: a new concept for date selection.

&#62;&#62; the next/prev buttons are no fashionable: now you can hide them!<p>So how will the user know that they must use the mouse wheel to navigate pre/next year or months? For me, it's not good usability-wise.

Pair that with the jQuery timepickr: <a href="http://haineault.com/media/jquery/ui-timepickr/page/" rel="nofollow">http://haineault.com/media/jquery/ui-timepickr/page/</a><p>It's not bad with the year and the month view. I would have the year slide left and right, not just switch because that makes it look like nothing happened at first.<p>The actual date picker is a bit awkward since it's not a traditional calendar. It's a lot easier to figure out whether the 7th of the month is a Tuesday or a Wednesday by seeing which column it's in rather than what is written underneath it. That way you would have a much cleaner view as well.

Interesting experiment, but not a win.<p>For a new UI to be a success, it needs to be faster for the user to USE or faster for the user to LEARN. The former is more important for tools with repeat users (like a mail app), the latter is more important for sites with transitory users. You could argue that it could perform okay on the former point IF you ignore the meaningful population of people who use trackpads or mobile devices... But how can you possible argue that ignoring that population is a good idea?

I like the idea of letting you jump through multiple months at once, but I think it should show all of the days in the month. If you aren't looking for something in the span initially shown, you're probably looking for something just beyond that. If you start changing the month around it could be anywhere that you want and extra clicks are added to find the right day to select.

Who else think the wheel direction is inverted?

On a related note, drop-down date selection has always driven me nuts. Isn't it easier to type "1977" than to find it in a drop-down? Isn't it easier to type "1 &#60;tab&#62; 17 &#60;tab&#62; 1977" than to select each in a drop-down?<p>Drives me nuts, mostly when clients request the drop-down over the text field...

It needs some easing and transitions to let the user know what's happening.<p>Maemo has a similar date picker, by the way. It's vertically, and the scrolling is more intuitive partially due to this fact.

It's nice, but it really needs keyboard navigation...

It is really missing Monday - Friday. Otherwise I like the idea.

it looks nice, but i don't think it's a good example of UX