Other people's interaction design wisdom, so that we're not re-inventing the (scroll) wheel!
Jan 3 '12
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“Facebook could simply have given the same weight to each individual event—a song you listened to or a run you took—as it gives other pieces of data, like status updates, and listed them all in the Timeline. But that doesn’t work well over time. Individual songs are interesting in the moment you’re listening to them. But over time, you’re more interested in patterns. So Facebook created a set of aggregations and reports, to let you “find those individual patterns that define your identity,” Felton says. By seeing aggregate reports on what songs you listened to at particular times in your life, you get to see “the soundtrack of your life.”
