Time Travel and Curated Playlists

Overview

What if time travel was the next step for exploring and learning about history? You could, for example, jump back to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. In context, it's a part of the larger Civil RIghts Movement, the movement for nonviolent political action, and a landmark piece of rhetoric (in this project, I  think of these as "playlists"). And what has happened since? Being 5 years out is different than 50 or 500. I explore here grounding users in the context and significance of events they're visiting.

The design challenge:

Demonstrate how you can apply a common visual language for a NASA time travel app, which consists of a UI that identifies where in time you are, where in time you want to go, and an actionable affordance to initiate time travel (don’t worry about flows).

Where are you now? This dashboard tells you where you are in time or "your present", in relation to the "natural present".