What Features Would You Want in a Time Traveling App?

I'm doing an interface design workshop next month at Adobe Max. It'll be focused on a time traveling app concept so I decided to do some quick user research.

Here's what I asked...

Faux user research...

If you had a mobile app that gave you the ability to _time travel_... what features would you want? ↯ (@mds) October 5, 2016

Answers from Twitter

@mds a surprise me button

— Dann Petty (@DannPetty) October 5, 2016

@mds if you could time travel you should already know the answer to the question

— Kelvin Ling (@klingus) October 5, 2016

@mds travel to a random day within X time period.

And black out dates. Obviously.

— Matt (@thinmatt) October 5, 2016

@mds Pause button. AR thru camera to tag nearby relatives at ages you never knew them ("Grandma, Age 29").

— Dan Draper (@Macobyte) October 5, 2016

@mds whilst in specific time-location, the option to 'undo' (rather than travel back 2mins).

— Trev (@Trev_Morris) October 6, 2016

@mds a “take me home”, and a “highlights of history” button.

— Veronica Domeier (@hellodomeier) October 6, 2016

Answers from Facebook

If you have some more ideas, let me know!