I love the YMCA. I feel like the vibe there is really nice compared to other gyms I've been to.
Out of this love, I found a little project to work on. I had a hard time parsing the aquatics schedule... the pool at the YMCA branch I go to has some pretty shaky hours, I really wanted to go for a swim, and it took me the better part of a few minutes just to realize the schedule was actually spread over two pages.
So my little project is to redesign the aquatics schedule, that runs through April 28th. I've started off with a super ugly first draft.
Of course, as I seem to tend toward wanting to abstract things, I've started dreaming a little about a calendar-printing tool that could take an iCal URL, or other open format calendar, and automagically generate this kind of schedule. But I'm getting ahead of myself... my ugly redesign is not only ugly, it's arguably even more flawed that the original at this point. So I want to set about iterating on it first!
I recently acquired a book on The New York Subway Map Debate, I'm excited to read that... I feel like it could inspire a ton of improvements to the rough draft I've put together.