How to navigate between Q, F and T?

[AbeHandler]

@myersnews 1.27.16 --

date list: there are some UI issues with the timeline. it becomes really complicated because you have two columns of dates and two rows of facets. i don’t know the solution here. it really depends on what people want to know. for instance, when you click on a year, you then have the original list of facets and the ones that apply to that year. why would the user want that much information? should the original list of facets be replaced with that secondary list, and you prominently say “subjects related to mitch landrieu in 2010” or whatever date range you choose?

naviagation gets wonky here. if i then choose a facet from the first list, the secondary list appears. even if i click 2010 again — or if i click any year — i don’t get that secondary list of facets again. if i choose a facet from the secondary list, the others disappear and i can’t get them back. ...

if i choose a facet in the 2010 row and click it, it doesn’t restrict the search to that year. logically it would, right? if a term is important in that year, then why would you show me all years when i click it? this also tells me you need a date description.

now let’s talk about the date columns. this makes more sense. i click a facet, i see stories chronologically. but there are two columns, and i don’t know what they are telling me. first, why are the month/date larger than the year? should they be in a column? how about you use the same convention for dates that you do for facets. can you make the year larger when stories from that year appear?

if you made the chart clickable, what would it do? should it do a time-restricted search that shows the facets in that time period?

[AbeHandler]

I think this is solved w/ the new Rookie design.