Perhaps it would make sense to reverse time from bottom to top. Right now it reflects the standard flow of time, forward, like on a watch. But in reality, our time is only running out.
When you have a timeline going from top to bottom, it feels like it will keep going further, but if you reverse it, you see what's left — without illusion.
I like the use of the Weber-Fechner law, that's a lens I use to think of age as well :) The idea is that experienced time is proportional to log time, i.e. it's why time seems to move faster as we age. You could even measure your age in powers of two, like we do octaves.
Are you saying that a better way to measure perceived time is something like "1 year, 2 more years, 4 more years, 8 more years," starting from birth, and maybe call each of those increments a "log year"? I like it.
I guess the "natural" base to use to get the "right" number of increments is a pointless exercise, since it ultimately bottoms out in the question of "why is a regular year as long as it is?", but if we assume a base of 2, I'm currently in my 6th log year, and hope to die comfortably into my 7th. Actuarial odds are >80% in my favor.
i don't think time moves faster as we age, i think our perceived duration of early life grows because we keep thinking about it.
for example, i have spent 35 years thinking about the events which took place at age 8, but i have only spent 8 years thinking about the events of age 35.
Very nice! I'd recommend that the landing page either shows an example right away (the Carl Sagan one is great) or make it more obvious to take a look at one first - took me a minute to figure out what this was for, but the example made it click immediately.
Thanks for the feedback! Didn't you get a highlight and text banner telling you to either enter a date or select an example? Or do you mean even then it should be more obvious?
Was it that the splash screen quote took too long too?
but the only "how" you can add is by connecting your linkedin? is that the only meaning my life is allowed to have? i can't talk about all the cool stuff i do on linkedin, i'd never get a job again.
I know I may be shooting myself in the foot here, but you're not supposed to stay on the app. Once you take a look at your life in perspective, my hope is that you'll close your browser and touch some grass. It's not a product. It's art. It's your life.
What platform / browser? Note that if you opened through a shared link you may be in view only mode. If that's the case I'll try making it more obvious
Design is amazing. Well done.
I inserted my birthday and got "Enter a real Gregorian date.".
Only then I understood I needed to insert "mm dd yyyy". User error for sure :) but this date format really annoys me
If you open it on another machine / browser you'll have a fresh start. Note that it's serverless. Share URLs serialize layer and period data. You should see layers and periods that you were viewing when you clicked Share.
If I open the shared link in an incognito window or browser, I'm not expecting a fresh start. I expect the data encoded into the URL `?c=` to restore my session, which I'd like it to include everything I do on the website: birthday, layers, skip tutorial, etc.
Not sure how I can tell apart that someone opens a shared link for the first time vs. someone that sent a link to themselves. Incognito browsing won't be a top priority I'm afraid. But I'm open to ideas.
shame that this requires WebGL to work. my machine doesn't support it. so the rest of the interface loads, but not the actual tiles. i was only able to find out what it is by opening it on my mobile phone
It's not a direct import, nor does it connect accounts or anything. It's an extension that lets you gather your profile data. It's just easier than entering each period by hand. I added it for convenience mainly.