Video was an element I refrained from adding as I assumed it would be overwhelming as its typically views in isolation form adjacent posts/content.

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/e57e0698-8a3a-435c-bf88-9256649f8375/Screen_Recording_2020-05-31_at_01.28.27.mp4

However, adding it only served to help tell the story. Especially videos from social media which are usually concise and communicate a lot visually with subtitles for instance.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nauman-violent-incident-t06732

This takes me back to a design I considered earlier, influenced by this piece by Bruce Nauman, that would show the same story at different stages in time in a grid. (Above is the same video played back at different delays).

After the final crit, I got some interesting feedback and here is my response to some of the comments. To address the issues would take longer than I have but, I have made small changes to improve the product in response.

In response to giving the user more control over the sources I added an option to highlight selected authors/publishers. I did it this way because I still wanted to show a variety of sources, not ones the user biases to.

Ideally I would position this as a chrome extension or an option in a share menu/sheet for someone to further explore an article they are reading, but in the meantime, copying the google maps model I added a clipboard button under the search.

Finally, the most difficult. This was to provide an indication of what the vis would look like before generating it. I added a histogram to the back of the Google Trends buttons that shows up after you pause over hovering the button. Otherwise it was way to distracting.

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/fc4c12da-aa96-4fbd-92d8-37a029620720/Screen_Recording_2020-06-02_at_00.35.56.mov

https://twitter.com/NAR/status/1266264364044058628?s=20

However, in the future I would like to include graphics more on par with this.