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Description
A classic browser history is often shown as a strictly chronological list. Lists are tiring to read and difficult to search (if you remember only little of the website's title).

Issues with classic browser history:
It is hard to understand the relation between websites
• Tabs: Browsers have multiple tabs, but their history doesn't display to which tab a website belonged.
• Previous/next: From where did I navigate to where?
It is hard to see the most important pages at a glance.
• Time: On which website did I stay longer? Intermediate navigation steps and redirects should have lowest relevance.
• Which website is the "main" site? (home page, shorter url than sub pages)

Possible Solutions:
• Thumbnails give more visual clues than just the url or title (see Canonical's website thumbnails).
• Search through the fully indexed website content (see Chromium) instead of just the title.
• Show a tree structure with branches to visualize the relation between websites.
• Highlight those websites where I stayed longer (bold text, size of thumbnail…?).

UbuntuTouch should in no way stand behind the power and usefulness of desktops, but rather make these workflows enjoyable and intuitive. It gives us the chance not to implement only simplified features but to explore innovative approaches to problems that where even not satisfyingly solved on the desktop.

My suggestion is a sort of tree structure that imitates a family tree (or a github timeline etc.). Due to that items are indeed differently aligned than on the dash view. But one could of course incarnate the same principle in a different design.
It is suposed to be a huge, pannable space . The user would be able to scroll down to see older history, zoom in to show more details and scroll sidewards (if not all fits on the screen). One could possibly collapse similar pages into one, or show just a dot that expands on hover.

Feel free to download the source file (svg) and modify it!

Description
A classic browser history is often shown as a strictly chronological list. Lists are tiring to read and difficult to search (if you remember only little of the website's title).

Issues with classic browser history:
It is hard to understand the relation between websites
• Tabs: Browsers have multiple tabs, but their history doesn't display to which tab a website belonged.
• Previous/next: From where did I navigate to where?
It is hard to see the most important pages at a glance.
• Time: On which website did I stay longer? Intermediate navigation steps and redirects should have lowest relevance.
• Which website is the "main" site? (home page, shorter url than sub pages)

Possible Solutions:
• Thumbnails give more visual clues than just the url or title (see Canonical's website thumbnails).
• Search through the fully indexed website content (see Chromium) instead of just the title.
• Show a tree structure with branches to visualize the relation between websites.
• Highlight those websites where I stayed longer (bold text, size of thumbnail…?).

UbuntuTouch should in no way stand behind the power and usefulness of desktops, but rather make these workflows enjoyable and intuitive. It gives us the chance not to implement only simplified features but to explore innovative approaches to problems that where even not satisfyingly solved on the desktop.

My suggestion is a sort of tree structure that imitates a family tree (or a github timeline etc.). Due to that items are indeed differently aligned than on the dash view. But one could of course incarnate the same principle in a different design.
It is suposed to be a huge, pannable space . The user would be able to scroll down to see older history, zoom in to show more details and scroll sidewards (if not all fits on the screen). One could possibly collapse similar pages into one, or show just a dot that expands on hover.

Feel free to download the source file (svg) and modify it!