Interactive Information Visualization: The Cinematic Life of Angie

For this assignment I decided to create my Dipity timeline on the most notable films Angelina Jolie has been in over her entire career. Of course I did this on Angelina because I just love her! But it was also very interesting looking at the different roles she has taken on. They range from made for TV moves to animated motion capture filmes to action to voiceovers. She has definitely had an interesting career. Here is the Dipity timeline create:

Angie's Life on Dipity.

I found using Dipity to be very intuitive. The only thing that I did find annoying and that only worked half of the time was the "save + add another event" button. Whenever I pushed this button, it only worked half of the time. Some times it took me to another box where I could input another event, but most of the time I was taken back to the timeline and had to push the "add event" button located at the top left of the timeline. This was rather annoying because I wanted to keep going and add more information in, instead of pausing to push another button. I think their overall design aesthetics could look a little bit vamped. From the timelines I looked at, they looked pretty dull, but to each their own.

I do like the idea of ongoing timelines that people have up that you can follow. I think the ones you can benefit from would be computers, medical technology and political events. For people who like to keep up with the technological advances computers have made over the past few decades would love the idea of following a timeline that might suggest future comings of new technology. For example. MacRumors.com uses a simliar timeline idea except they list them out instead of placing them on timelines. MacRumors.com tells consumers when should buy new computers, iPhones, iPhones, etc by guessing when new releases might come out. They list previous release dates of the most updated hardware and software, when new big company events are happening like MacWorld and give suggestion ratings on if a consumer should buy or not. They would benefit from using a timeline, visually compelling people to take their information even more seriously then they already do.