Thanks for the great feedback Sabine. I agree a Legend would help. I guess I kind of wanted to avoid that if possible, maybe as others suggested, a single character path might help.
Some comments below: On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:56 PM, sabine morrow <[email protected]>wrote: > > 1. In the original universe, the starting point is time 0 (zero). You can > move back in time and what appears to be forward in time. But what is > confusing is that at +15 you describe "Geborga travel *back* in time to > build...". It would be intuitive to think "+15" is moving ahead in time, not > backward. > Maybe I should just use dates - that might be easier? > 4. The travelor moves ahead in time in the alternate universe and some > event happens and I end up back in the original moving ahead in time. They > return to the original but there is gap from where they left the original > and ended up in the alternative to where they are back in the original. A > time warp? > They try to go back to year 0, they get sucked back to their original universe, far ahead of their target date, where they find their world ruined. The alternate universe continues, but without them. > > 5. What is the time spread? According to your chart, because alternate path > is on diagonal, I would think time accelerates in the alternate like is > shown in the original - you go from +19 to +432. Maybe the original path > should be on diagonal and the alternate path is completely vertical to > indicate the jump forward in time with the travelors jump back into their > original universe. > Because they are moving away from each other, time is distorted and when they return, that accounts for all the added time. The gap from 19-432 is the "time distortion." > > 6. In sum, travelors go back in time, and end up in alternate universe but > they don't realize it. They try to come back to their time zerom, which > triggers their acceleration forward into their original universe? Not sure > that is what you intended. But at +24 in the alternate, the caption > discusses +16 years but that does not match up across the grid to the > original. It would definately help to have legend explaining the > calibrations - what they are in each universe and how they relate from one > universe to another. > 24 + 16 = 40. They are trying to get "back" to 40 years total. I realize that is not clear though. > 7. As regards design, try using more visual cues - different font for > alternate universe, color code the time calibrations to show at exactly at > what point the travelor crossed from one universe to another. Font is a > little plane. Maybe use boxy, tech font for this futuristic, sci-fi theme? > I will definitely try and add more visual cues and I iterate this. Thanks for the feedback I will post back an updated version! Tom ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
