Event Date List Row

I’ve been spending a lot of time today thinking about the row for the list of event dates. This has been something I’ve been sort of stuck on for the last couple of weeks. This list is a bit tricky because the data on it is not strictly events. The rows represent date records related to events. All events have at least one date (the single date or start date field) but they can optionals have an end date to form a date range. The ending date can be set to a specific date or set to an “ongoing” status where the event will show up as something that hasn’t ended yet.

For a couple of weeks I was including the ongoing date rows in this list, sorted by the current date. I decided to omit them for now. They always looked a bit out of place to me.

Here are several versions of a new design for these rows. I think I’m going to use the 6th and last option. I removed the circle indicators from the row entirely. The capsule around one of the dates indicates that the date is the one for the row. For example: You can see two rows for the event called “A date range”. It shows up in the list of sorted dates for both its start and end dates. I also decided to make everything in the list content region use the selected color for the timeline, in this case red.