Max Kiesler – Designer

New ways to visualize time based content is the next frontier of interaction design. Andy Biggs has finally come up with a new way to view time based RSS content in an easy to use and visually stunning manor. RssVoyage is a step beyond most current feed readers. Andy is a senior flash developer who decide to explore RSS in a 3D viewer. To quote Andy, “Voyage is a RSS Feed agregator that sorts the feeds based on date of each item posted. The user then scrolls through their feeds in 3d using the mouse wheel.” While it might be difficult to view 1000 feed with the current application, it’s a brilliant proof of concept for a new way to visualize RSS content. The only suggestions I would have are a few additional controls. It would be helpful if there was a way to stop the mouse scroll by a clicking. A feature to zoom the size of the posts would help with large amounts of data. Finally, a way to filter the feeds would allow me to see only the content I wished. Thanks Andy for the great insight into this new way of visualizing RSS feeds.

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