Ali R. Tariq

UX Timeline - See how some of today's best companies have evolved

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Ryan Hoover
Would love to see Product Hunt on this list. 😀 Here's a screenshot from early 2014:
Ben Tossell
This is a pretty cool little site :) Looks like there is room for A LOT more startups. They should definitely add recently shut down companies too, e.g. Parse, Mailbox etc I'd also suggest taking out the '2004 - Homepage, no change' - if no change, no input would be better/cleaner?
Ran
@bentossell agreed! Looking at the changes over time, and scrolling past a bunch of "no change" years takes away from the focus on the UX we're reviewing. Cool site!
Jacinthe Busson
@ranlearns @bentossell @alirtariq Thanks! Since the post on Product Hunt, I have received a lot of encouraging messages recently and I’m currently working on several improvements :)
Jacinthe Busson
Thanks for hunting my project @bentossell ! I spent a lot of time browsing Internet Archive and going back to the past like Marty Macfly ;) Please vote for the next Timeline by scrolling at the bottom of the page.
John Ceniza
@jacinthe_ any plans to do mobile app UX/branding timelines? That would be awesome. Perhaps crowdsource it and let users submit screenshots from various apps?
Jacinthe Busson
@j_ceniza Thanks for your support. I'll take your feedback into account :) Also, Shazam’s timeline is online with several screenshots Android and IOS ^^ http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...
Sylvain Weber
"Timing, perseverance and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success." -Biz Stone
Mykel Nahorniak
Great site! This is more of a branding timeline than UX, no? It's showing the homepage of the site (changes in logo, colors, etc.), not so much the actual UX of the app.
Ali R. Tariq
@mvkel yeah, I was thinking that too. There's only so much UX you can infer from aesthetic changes.
Ali R. Tariq
Sometimes it's easy to forget that that overnight successes happen rarely. Even the iPod took a few generations to make measurable impact. This is a great visualization of how some of today's most well-known digital products have evolved over time. Looks like there's room to put PH in there ;)
Dan Brooks
I see this and think, why has this not been done before. Really good way to track how these services came to be. A good addition would be interviewing the founders or staff on why they changed certain things. That would be priceless.
Jacinthe Busson
@ramtorn Thanks for your kind words! I'll take your feedback into account. Shazam’s timeline is online :)
Liora
Can't wait to see more products added! Especially hoping to see Facebook -- so many changes have gone on there.
Liora
Also, including the mobile apps too -- Spotify has had some really fascinating changes on the mobile front and it would be great to see that here.
Jacinthe Busson
@liora_ Thanks Liora :) I'll take your feedback into account. Shazam’s timeline is online with several screenshots Android and IOS ^^ http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...
Romain
This is a ripoff of http://www.startuptimelines.org but w/e
Jacinthe Busson
@mmmelk Hi Romain, I didn’t know your website when I started to work on UxTimeline.
Brad McDaniel
This is awesome! It reminds me of "the wayback machine" just alot better UX and cooler overall!
Jacinthe Busson
@agilebrad Thanks! I use precisely Wayback Machine and Google Image to do a Timeline : https://twitter.com/internetarch... - Also, Shazam’s timeline is just online^^http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...
Loi Hoang
Just love it. Super!!!
Jacinthe Busson
@hoangloi Thanks for your kind words! Shazam’s timeline is online ^^ http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...
Lenny Hu
I love this. If you could find articles where the team or even outsiders write about the rationale behind the branding change (ie., Airbnb Belong Anywhere:http://blog.airbnb.com/belong-an...), that would even be awesome-er.
Jacinthe Busson
@lenndizzle Thanks for your support. I'll take your feedback into account :)
Marc Baiges Camprubí
Very nice idea, although it would be great to see some deeper analysis not just a set of screenshots. Also, such long vertical timelines make it difficult to compare a given feature across history, since you lose context. It would be great if you could have side by side let's say the logos, or font types, or home pages, etc... Nice starting point though!
Jacinthe Busson
@marcbc Thanks for your kind words! I'll take your feedback into account. Also, Shazam’s timeline is just online :)
Osman Ahmed
Ooh, I love this! Would love to see a few giants such as Twitter down on the list :D
Jacinthe Busson
@leafbomb Thanks Osman. I'll take your feedback into account. Shazam’s timeline is online with several screenshots Android and IOS ^^ http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...
Christian Montoya
This is something I've wanted for years! Nice work :)
Jacinthe Busson
@decktonic Thanks for your kind words! Shazam’s timeline is online ^^ http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...
Estelle L-A
This is a great idea! We can see the progress of the content through the company development! ;)
Jacinthe Busson
@madinelle Merci Estelle :) Je viens de mettre en ligne la timeline de Shazam. Impressionnant également l'évolution de cette société qui existe depuis 1999. http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...
Sagi Shrieber
love it!
Jacinthe Busson
@sagishrieber Thanks Sagi :) Shazam’s timeline is online ^^ http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...
Aaron Lumsden
Cool idea. It's nice to see how some of these sites start out. Interesting site!
Jacinthe Busson
@aaronlumsden Thanks! Shazam’s timeline is online ^^ http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...
Saygın Burak
This is great to see how web design trends change over years. More timelines would be awesome! 👍
Jacinthe Busson
@sayginburak Thanks for your kind words! Shazam’s timeline is online ^^ http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...
Tyler Swartz
Really like this! Very interesting to see how the branding and UX of companies has developed. Also it's nice to see all of the different initial homepages that sort of look like they were built over a weekend 😃. It would be great to be able to filter to just their home pages on the timeline, some of them also have about pages or more info pages, while that is nice to see, it distracts from seeing just how the homepage has changed over the years (which i think is the most interesting).
Jacinthe Busson
@tylerswartz Thanks for your kind words :) I'll take your feedback into account and I am currently working on improvements. Also, Shazam’s timeline is online ^^ http://www.uxtimeline.com/shazam...