In what ways can online tools enable users to sort, prioritize and retrieve information according to personal criteria?
Here, the information is organized using a spine which represents a larger category. The spines hold information together in these categories—clumping together information that has an affinity.
The categories represented here were built out of actual search results:
- Green = Recipes
- Gold = Shady or un-vetted websites
- Blue = Shopping/commerce
- Pink = Reference resources
- Brown = News
Each line branching off the spine represents a website. These are listed alphabetically from top to bottom. The tints represent popularity of the site (the darker shades are the more popular sites).
Websites to the left of the spine currently represent sites built/maintained by individuals, while those to the right of the spine represent sites built/maintained by groups, organizations, or companies.
I also wondered about creating an interface where information receded in space away from the viewer and existed in layers (this is vaguely suggested in my image above). The user could navigate through material by maneuvering up, down, forward and back. This would zoom the user through the information—clicking would preview and then take the user to the actual site.
This is still very sketchy, but I believe it's a stronger notion than my first iteration, as far as the system triage-ing information for the user up front.
I will post further analysis on this system soon.
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