Thursday, October 6, 2011

union station interactive timeline basic concepts

going through the back catalog of process sketches, here...
starting at the very beginning, erika and i were thinking about doing something bigger and more interactive than a basic single-user touchscreen. we've gone back and forth and wireframed lots of different possibilities, but some of our first instincts are here:


we were thinking about using a tabletop display so that more than one person could be interacting with the information at a time, and the fact that our information is coming largely from newspaper articles and editorials lends itself pretty tidily to little bits of information floating around.



this is a quick walkthrough of how interactions might work with this first design idea. in it, the table is covered in "newspaper clippings." these digital clippings would expand when you interact with them, and surrounding dates would swim over to the active clipping for further reading.  



this was another try wherein rather than clippings there were entire digital newspapers that could be organized or strewn about. 


these frames represent what a digital newspaper experience might look like, whether in the context of the multi-user tabletop display, or even in a static single-user screen.


this is another messy sketch of two userpaths. the first line is following a path through the tabletop display, given that the floating pieces are actually decade pieces that continue spawning new information rather than simply clippings. the second line is a walkthrough of the interactions possible with the static newspaper screens.


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