What you can do with ArchChive?

• Share files with colleagues & clients across the world through the web.
  
  
  
• Attach notes & photos to your drawings (or CAD files); your colleague at the other end could respond to your note in that same interface; as a result you not only have a conversation going, there is always a record of it for later reference.
  
  
  
• Search & find files using vizDoc; it allows you to search for and retrieve files in new exciting ways: through visuals
  rather than tabular data.

Design goals & inspiration

• For this project, I wanted to address the twin goals of meaningful information presented in an unusual way: using forms from nature.
  
  
• Leaves as files in the system: After a good deal of experimentation, I settled on leaves to depict the documents & files in a system. Just as leaves in nature change from a bright green when they are fresh, to a dull brown when they are old, so do the files in vizDoc; fresh, recent files are green, & move through various color changes to a brown for the oldest files.
  
  
• Spirals as indicator of the passage of time: Time is a key parameter whenever we think of a project or document. This design therefore organizes information around a soft-curving spiral which stands for a timeline.
  
  

  See an example of the visualization

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Iterations

vizDoc

My thesis is a design prototype, & is focusing mainly on the visualization component for ArchChive called vizDoc.

So are you ready to explore vizDoc?