In Interface & Interaction Design class last night, we did an exercise on how to design a better business-card sized calendar.

This was part of a design challenge on this site:

“It all started because my 48-year-old mom, blessed her, can’t read small type very well. She has trouble using little calendar cards because the day numerals are so small and last time she complained I paused and empathized with her travail. The problem, it was suddenly obvious, was not only the marketing debris that encroaches upon every poor card but rather the quite wasteful scheme we use for representing a year—the same table with the same thirty-something numbers over and over.”

My group came up with a movable dial design, but here’s the challenge’s winner, and my favorite - the “thumb calendar.”