Sama Kanbour

17 Feb 2014

Usable: Celebrating every minute spent outside

Description This website presents an interactive timeline that shows how different people spend their time minute by minute on a daily basis. The timeline integrates images along with captions. People can be tagged to an entry, and thus can be tracked. A search feature allows the user to find specific entries by the time they took place. The timeline animation is very pleasant.
Tools and resources the timeline was generated using JavaScript

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Useful: Interactive design

Description what I liked about this interactive website is not the idea or content, but rather the animated transition between the different layouts. I find this example of interaction useful for my own project as I am gathering ideas about how I can visually organize my information for the Quantified Selfie.
Improvement looking at the source code, it appears that the developer used JavaScript to create animations, which I don’t think is ideal. Given how powerful CSS3 is today, I am confident there is a way to recreate these animations using CSS only.

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Desirable: Express your musicality!

Description: this is a web app that allows you to make a human miniature beatbox. To me, this app is more related to a cappella music than beatboxing. Given that cappella music is à la mode, this app in my opinion is very entertaining and fun to play with. It could almost reproduce Mike Tompkins’ exceptional vocal art!

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