Technical requirements
Before beginning, I would like you to know about the timeline sketch:
|--x---x---x-x--x--x------> user event
The timeline sketch is a unique illustrative chart type that displays a series of events during a period. The left bar (|
) stands for the time origin, representing the first update. The horizontal dash (-
) moves with the time from left to right with an arrow >
at the end. Each letter or number, such as x
, indicates one event that happened in this timeline. In this book, we will use the timeline sketch to better understand a situation when multiple things happen simultaneously along the timeline.