Laws of Accelerating Change Interactive Story

Quick Snapshot

• Role: Interaction designer and storyteller
• Team: Independent project for an information visualization course
• Customers: Learners exploring the pace of technological advancement

Mandate / Opportunity / Problem Scope

Technological progress is compounding, but the data is often abstract. I created an interactive narrative to help people see how performance and cost curves across microelectronics, genomics, and other domains reinforce each other.

What I Led / Delivered / Highlights

• Developed annotated timelines for 2001–2015 data sets that visualized key milestones across multiple technologies.
• Crafted hover interactions and callouts that connected Moore’s Law, genomic sequencing costs, and other accelerants.
• Explained the interdependence of breakthroughs so audiences could internalize why acceleration matters for human health, computing, and beyond.

Impact / Lasting Value / Takeaway

The project served as a teaching aid, making the laws of accelerating change tangible and giving readers a framework for contextualizing new technological leaps.