Interactive storytelling: Timeline during the pandemic
My roles
Skills & methods
Project summary
How has two years of corona changed our lives? And how can we tell this story in a simple, yet playful way?
To answer these questiones I created this interactive timeline - from the first idea to the final product. The story was made in 2021 at Kristeligt Dagblad.
The timeline gives the readers a visual overview of tendencies during the pandemic - using selected illustrations and headlines that the reader can interact with and decide to dive further into.
Awards
This story is a part of my visual portfolio at Kristeligt Dagblad which received an “award of excellence” for the best individual story page portfolio at the Society of News Design competition in 2022.
Process
The story is based on over 200 articles in Kristeligt Dagblad on the pandemic which I read and then categorized into different themes. I found the most common themes and then selected headlines to represent the tendencies in the story.
I then mapped out the story in Figma and planned how to create the timeline in code on desktop and mobile. This is a early prototype of one of the sections in the story:
I drew the final illustrations for different themes in the story by hand, using a tablet.
I programmed the final story using CSS & JS.