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ChronoZoom is an interactive timeline for all of history.
http://www.chronozoom.com
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CleanUI: Bookend design can cause user confusion on start and end date #291

Closed saekow closed 11 years ago

saekow commented 11 years ago

Due to padding of bookend feature, it can cause confusion on the start and end date of a timeline.

  1. Go to "Life of Thomas Edison" timeline http://tinyurl.com/bpglhg5
  2. The bookend dates shows 1856 CE to 1921 CE

Screen Shot 2013-04-25 at 7 19 57 PM

But the actual start and end of timeline is 1847 to 1931. So it can cause confusion to the user what the start and end date is.

saekow commented 11 years ago

Discussed with Luke, he will provide new/modified behavior proposal today.

saekow commented 11 years ago

Propose to disable bookend feature for May 1-2 incremental release.

saekow commented 11 years ago

I think this is a major issue.

If you look at current implementation when viewing "United States" timeline, it appears that we created the start time as "1808". screen shot 2013-04-29 at 10 36 27 pm

But if you move the mouse tracker to the start of the timeline, then you see the timeline is actually 1776 screen shot 2013-04-29 at 10 39 21 pm

So the original purpose of bookends which is to clearly communicate the start and end time being viewed, has failed.