Web Product Design Summary: The time dimension related to the Internet products

I have long wanted to summarize some of the Internet products that we see in the time dimension. With the continuous postponement of this log. The more I find out more about the design of similar web products. This is a good thing. I think it's time to make a summary list.

Plurk

At the end of last year, an MSN China "plagiarism Door"-poly-Cool plagiarism Plurk event occurred. proves that Plurk is unique. Plurk, the Chinese name for pop wave, is a social networking site that provides multilingual support for visualizing microblogging services based on the timeline, similar to Twitter, created by an organization called A-Team. Its biggest feature is to display their own and friends ' updates on a timeline, and to interact directly with the content on the timeline. Users can also customize the background of the timeline. This gives the time axis diversity, also satisfies the user's individuality demand. At present, the pop wave in Hong Kong and Macao is quite popular, mainland China has been temporarily unable to use April 2009, pop wave officials have been in the negotiations.

Google Real Time Search

GOOGLE's latest real-time search results also incorporate the timeline, a design I've been very fond of lately. The height and density of the peak bars displayed on the timeline depend on the amount of real-time information. The greater the amount of information, the higher the peak height, the more dense the width, in this time axis through the left and right to move the blue box, you can flexibly locate the time domain. There is also the choice of year and month. Such a timeline design is a good manifestation of the visualization of information. There is also a very interesting detail design. When the user has just opened the live Search result is the rightmost column will display the related news top links,top links is from the left side of these frequently updated blogs, micro-blogs, forums sharing the link address, the most shared links will appear in the first links. When the user customizes the timeline, the top links disappear. This design may be to consider the impact of information noise.

Google Hundred treasure box-time tunnel

Last May, Google released the first batch of search visionary included a time tunnel, users just enter a simple keyword, the time Tunnel in the Treasure box can be based on the user's intention, according to the content of the time of the page to refine or organize , Reorder all information in chronological order and present it to the user. compared to Baidu and other search engines, Google launched the Hundred treasure box, according to the user search query different starting point, to provide different search results. This is a very innovative search for change. At present, Google takes into account user habits, the Treasure box is closed by default. In the near future visionary will slowly without affecting the user's habits under the premise of the default open.

Google's 10 anniversary event timeline

Google's 10 Anniversary milestone page, through a simple scroll bar + timeline of the combination. Show Google from the domain name to become a world-class internet companies in the past 10 years of some of the historic important moments.

Digg Labs (365)

Through the interface of the time compass. Specify a day, month, or year. Visually help users catch hot news easily. After the year is switched, the color corresponding to the month shows the 10 hot events of the year. You can also view the story by category.

Flickr clock

Flickr clock A product that combines the timeline with pictures and videos. You can view the picture or video for that period by positioning on the timeline. The peak bar height, density, and width of the timeline depend on the amount of data.

Finally, let's think about – the meaning of the time dimension.

1, has the time axis fusion content to show more has the space sense, the history sense.
Scientists have had this idea that all dimensions are composed of time, without time, there is no space. Because there is no time, the existence of space itself has no meaning, because space-time itself is inseparable from the whole. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, the three-dimensional space we face in our lives, combined with time , constitutes the so-called four dimensional space.
2, another way to read and retrieve information.
The introduction of the timeline of this information visualization design, for users. There is no doubt that there is a whole new way of reading the information content. The time dimension to organize the content, the organization memory is the method which the human always uses. For example, our history of the "918 incident", "5,124 Sichuan earthquake" ....

Facing the information retrieval. In addition to tag, social classification, situational classification, if the time to be able to combine information visualization design, it should also be a very good classification and retrieval methods.