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by blueboo 656 days ago
The phone form factor is yelling something at us and UX designers just can’t hear it.

Hint: We don’t spend our days scrolling horizontally

1 comments

Valid point! I agree in general. For timelines though, I believe that most people expect timeline user interfaces to be horizontal. Vertical scrolling may be more comfortable, but it clashes with existing mental models for video editing.

You’re right, it may be worth exploring a vertical timeline though, especially for more experimental video editing concepts! It would definitely be possible to implement with the IMG.LY SDK.