[Sigia-l] Timeline

[Scott Paterson]

Paula,
Your comments below baffled me especially given the example you provide.
I should give some background. I worked for two years at Plumb Design as a
site developer and then a technical producer. My background is in
architecture, the capital A kind. I have a design and a technical
background, therefore I appreciate and place emphasis on the need for their
integration. I worked on the EMP project during its conceptual stages as
well as a number of other projects that had difficult data structures(eg. A
museum of the world's religions).
So I must ask you what is your criteria for a timeline to be worth the
investment? And I ask this because even though I didn't have to wait for
your example to load nor was it glitzy it didn't seem to do anything more
than provide a list with linked content that drove me away from the
timeline. How is this a good example??
Best regards,
[sgp]


----- Original Message -----
From: "paula.thornton" <paula.thornton at prodigy.net>
To: "ASIS" <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:53 PM
Subject: [Sigia-l] Timeline


> Thanks for the responses. I've been saving the best to my research
> collection, but I've been decidedly 'underwhelmed' by the majority of
> them...especially the 'glitzy' ones, all flash-based. They take forever to
> load and just aren't worth the investment in 'sitting'.
>
> An admittedly low-tech solution, I liked at least considering the offering
> at http://www.historychannel.com/perl/timeline.pl?year=2000
>
> Reassembling the various components of the function (the main search for
the
> function is lower right), I think they can be redesigned for a more
> 'appealing' solution.
>
> Paula Thornton
> Interaction Design Strategist
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