My Life in Weeks

You have probably lived more and experienced more than you realize. In everyday life the weeks blur together. Looking back, many of them have left barely a trace, and your own life can easily seem less eventful than it really was — all the more so next to other people's. This app lays it out in front of you: one dot for every week you have already lived. Enter your date of birth and the grid fills in: weeks lived in ink, the current one in vermilion, the ones ahead left empty. A number you can hardly grasp becomes a field you can take in at a single glance. This gives you a clearer perspective on your life — on what has been and on what still lies ahead. THE PICTURE About 5,200 dots on a single screen, grouped into decades. One row is one year of life. What you see is not a countdown but a scale. MILESTONES Tap a week and give it a name: a move, a trip, the first day at work, a birth.…