006: Week 13 Interactive Information Visualization Active Research Assignment: Dipity

Rebekah L. on Dipity.

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I found my experience with dipity to be very similar with that of uploading images in facebook. Not the mention the color schemes are completely similar, with the navy blue bar on the top followed with lighter schemes for other links. It seemed to be a combination of Facebook’s “status updates” with “uploading images”, with the only difference being you can likely go with just doing one or the other. What I really liked about it was seeing an overview of events in a timeline form, one after another even when it was as little of a thing as “I got this!” followed by “I baked this!”. It felt oddly accomplishing. The only thing I found a bit jarring about dipity was it didn’t reflect paragraph breaks, even when I made them in my update so it makes longer entries appear less organized.

The first thing that came to my mind as a potential use for Dipity was as a study aid. I feel it’d be very helpful for those wanting to learn to history of anything to be able to flip through it one by one in an interesting, and what I personally find fun way with how you can toggle back and forth between events which may have pictures and/or links if you wanted to learn more about said event. It can be great for sharing a log of research or can even act as an art blog of sorts, so one can see how they improved day or week by week. I felt it would also be a perfect logbook for reviews for anything be it restaurants, movies, stores, etc. It may even serve as a great resume for employers needing a quick scan and can see view the timeline of one’s educational and professional accomplishments.