Flow of History
Mobile UX/UI
Published to app store
Client John Butler is an award winning high school history teacher
A mobile tablet app called Flow of History. Starting with a novel idea of flowcharting history, a complete new interface and structure was put in place to appeal to the high school student and act as a companion to traditional history textbooks.
![](img/professional/foh-hero.jpg)
—Visualizing human history as a series of connected flows with companion timeline contextualizing the major milestones of the period
![](img/professional/foh-architecture.jpg)
—The experience was redesigned around the unique capabilities of the mobile tablet platform
![](img/professional/foh-icon.jpg)
—A new identity was also established anticipating the "flattening" of future mobile operating systems' interfaces.
![](img/professional/foh-before.jpg)
—The previous version employed a vertical timeline as well as boxes, heavy lines and confusing color coding.