It's a brilliant concept, and a timeline is a great way to be able to get a better understanding of disparate events.
And while the UI is beautiful, and beautifully animated, I'd argue that it could use a bit of improvement, it's very difficult to get any sense of what is going on in any timeline, it likes to pull up some major events which is nice, but they have no visual relation or range, and are too few are far between, then I'm just left to search through all the dots on the page for anything interesting. The filters are great, but when one is selected I feel that nothing really comes from it.
But I do really like the effort to provide something of use to explore history. I think some very minor improvements could go a very long way. My primary suggestions would be to have a more robust filtering mechanism, perhaps even arbitrary entry based, and then to use the vertical axis in some sort of capacity, perhaps location based?
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It's a brilliant concept, and a timeline is a great way to be able to get a better understanding of disparate events.
And while the UI is beautiful, and beautifully animated, I'd argue that it could use a bit of improvement, it's very difficult to get any sense of what is going on in any timeline, it likes to pull up some major events which is nice, but they have no visual relation or range, and are too few are far between, then I'm just left to search through all the dots on the page for anything interesting. The filters are great, but when one is selected I feel that nothing really comes from it.
But I do really like the effort to provide something of use to explore history. I think some very minor improvements could go a very long way. My primary suggestions would be to have a more robust filtering mechanism, perhaps even arbitrary entry based, and then to use the vertical axis in some sort of capacity, perhaps location based?