Presentation slides for my honours project / dissertation workshop about time representation. DJCAD / Digital Interaction Design 2014. Includes icons from the Noun Project, and maps scanned from “A Cartography of Time” by Rosenberg and Grafton, 2013 (Princeton Architectural Press).

1. december 11th
, 2014
djcad
victor loux
workshop: preserving
digital
memories

2. e What my project is about
r How do we think about time?
t Some tasks
u Evaluating prototypes
i Discussion about social networks

3. e What my project is about
r How do we think about time?
t Some tasks
u Evaluating prototypes
i Discussion about social networks
o ~CAKE!!!~

4. what’s the problem,
anyway?

5. people share stories and
photographs on
social networks
Pictograms: Noun Project (cc)

6. people share storiesWith time,
become memories
and gain sentimental
value

7. But social networks
will not last forever.
They’re companies relying
on income from advertising,
and if they lose their users
they can shut down at any time.

8. And if they
die,
so will
your data.

9. Make a device to
back up content
early on, and
make it
accessible later

10. How to browse
through decades
of stories and
updates
without losing your mind?

11. how do we think
about
time?

12. past present future

14. the progress bar

15. a cultural thing
DINNER LUNCH BREAKFAST

16. past
present
future

17. time as a
recurring
cycle
ouroboros
Fol. 196 of Codex Parisinus graecus 2327
Source: Wikimedia. Public domain.

32. yo that’s really cool
but where are you
going with all this?
also, when’s the cake pls

33. a life does not
look like this:

34. it’s more something
like this:
Laurence Stern
The life and opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, 1761

35. linear, single
timelines gives us the
impression that
history is necessarily
progressive

36. exercise time!
draw your life
without using a
one-axis timeline

37. Cathy Haynes / photo Taya Hauer
How to Map a Life, 2012

38. and now
highlight
the events that
are visible online on
social networks

39. exercise time!
find 6 photos that
make you smile on FB.
They must be at least
one year old.

40. testing prototypes
time!
rate each visualisation
in terms of clarity

41. THANK YOU!