I’ve been discussing a UI/programming issue with a colleague and an interesting question arose: “If you could visualize time, what would it look like?”
It may seem like a dumb question, but I think it’s a good question. Of course, we have calendars, which deal well with days weeks and months, but we have to deal with time of day, days, weeks and months over a long period of time. Graphs and charts are fine for viewing aggregate data, but we also need to allow user input.
I did a quick search on the internet (nothing exhaustive yet), but I didn’t find anything new or unique. It may simply be a dumb question, but I wonder if there’s not a better alternative to a calendar, particularly when viewing, entering and editing data over long periods of time. If you could visualize time, what would it look like?
I'm looking into the same thing.
perhaps a year, left to right. But I myself sometimes visualize a year as a circle, with winter at the top, spring at the 9 o'clock position, summer at the bottom and fall at 3 o'clock.
I work with someone who associates colors to numbers. Forgot the word tthat describes this.
Posted by: Jim | July 20, 2007 at 07:41 PM