The weekend is quickly slipping away.  I had a lot less time to spend on this than I had hoped (I guess that’s how it always goes).  I helped a friend move this morning and it took a little longer than expected and I ended up running some errands, etc.  You know.

Anyway, here’s the visual design for ThoughtBox!  I tried to find colors that would be both calming (the light blue green and soft gray) and yet demand a sense of action (the bright orange).  This is how I would like to think of my task planning…calm, controlled and action oriented (I should write my own book)!  If I actually had been using ThoughtBox, maybe I would have realized how long the errands were going to take today.

As far as type goes, I ended up using Miramonte and Georgia.  Miramonte is one of the “free” typefaces that Ascender included with the WPF SDK.  In the end, that only shows up in the state bar along the top, but it’s a really strong type so it gives the UI a strong anchor up there.

For everything else, I’m using Georgia.  It’s an obvious choice because it’s free and on just about every computer in the world, but non-obvious because it’s a serif font which is kind of unusual for UI.  I think it works though.  Picasa uses Georgia for the category names and I always liked the way it looked.

I’m a big believer if the “Photoshop” step in creating an app and we tend to make a strong investment in this step at IdentityMine and I think it pays off.  On the other hand, I guess it’s possible to over invest here to and that’s why I’m moving on to the next step.  I haven’t worked out all of the kinks with this design yet and we’re going to need to clean up some things, but mostly I’m happy with it.  I think it’s coming together.

In other news, I actually got a jump start on some code.  I forgot to post the comp when I actually finished it.  I don’t think I’m going to finish this weekend, at least not with support for syncing with Remember The Milk (and that’s the ultimate goal), but I should have a working UI done.