Lifepath.me Shows You When You’ll Marry, Graduate, Buy a House and Die (in An Awesome Design)

Actually, its the 8795th day of my life and what you’re looking at is the timeline of my life built by a brand new web app Lifepath.me. So I’ve “used” about 31% of my life according to a website built by the renowned interface designed and blogger Dustin Curtis whose graphically intensive posts like Sleep (or How to Hack Your Brain) and Dear American American Airlines always manage to stand out in the see of content available to us every day on the web.

Lifepath.me is no exception. It’s Curtis’ new project with which you can create a timeline of your own life, from birth (to blogging) to death? Curtis already created something similar for his own life and called it The Life of Dustin Curtis. Lifepath.me is an extension of that project, that takes data available from the NIH and the CDC and based on your location, habits and socioeconomic status, estimates when you’ll die, as well as other events of your life such as marriage and retirement.

When you start using Lifepath.me, it will ask you for some basic information, such as your date of birth and where you live. The .me domain name for the project is appropriate since how personal it is (you can get your own .me from our registrars or in our development program). After doing a bit of number crunching, Lifepath’s dashboard will show you the most important numbers it can: how many days you have left to live. I’ve got about 18,794 days, 8 hours and 10 seconds at the time I was writing this sentence. Now its about 5 seconds. Oh well.

Lifepath.me will also show a percentage that indicates how much of your life you’ve lived. Curtis’ brilliant design incorporated with the data does make you think…

These Are The Days of Your Life

Since I don’t have time spare ;), why not make the event information on my Lifepath profile more accurate. You can edit all the important days of your life, including when you hit puberty, attended high school, purchased your first home, had your first heart attach, etc. Goodie!

The interface is simple and usable so you’ll be editing events quickly. The added day will automatically be added into the timeline. Of course, the 2 things you can’t edit is your date of birth… and death.

The Life(path) Of…

Now that we’ve edited our little lives into Lifepath.me, we should take a look at them. When you open the timeline from the dashboard or menu, you just need to scroll right through your life. New icons will zoom past  while you scroll past your high school and university graduation, nearing not only retirement but the end of the timeline.

You can further edit some basic info such as your name, bio, location and gender in the settings, while also making your timeline private. Lifepath.me timelines are public by default and you can see mine at lifepath.me/ivanbrezakbrkan.

Just 10 Invites – Get Yours!

Curtis wants to make Lifepath.me pixel perfect so it will take a little bit more time until its released to the public, but he was generous enough to give us 10 invites to share with our readers – you! To enter, you just need to tweet the following in the next 24 hours:

I just want to create my digital timeline with Lifepath.me thanks to @dotmetweet – http://ow.ly/5Hqi8

After you’ve tweeted, leave a comment below with your Twitter username (we can then contact you via the comment e-mail) and also tell us what you think about Lifepath.me. You can tweet until 5pm CET tomorrow on the 19th.

Lifepath.me is a wonderfully designed service that could make you think about your life plans in a few simple (digital) steps. it will be interesting to see what Curtis ends up building into the final release and how users end up using the service.