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What Screens Want

https://frankchimero.com/writing/what-screens-want/
Frank Chimero, November 2013

  • In your own words, what is the central thesis of this article?
  • Provide your own example of skeuomorphism that you have noticed in your own life (it doesn't have to be virtual). Explain why it is skeuomorphic.
  • Define—in your own words—Chimero's concept of Flux. Please provide an example of Flux that you see in your own online experience.

Turing Complete User

http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/
Olia Lialina, October 2012

  • In your own words, what is the central thesis of this article?
  • What is Lialina's definition of Turing Complete Users?
  • From your own experiences on the web—What is an example where there are "gaps that can be filled by users"?

It's also encouraged that you think of what "seamless" means in the context of the web, technology, and this article.

Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724938
Johanna Drucker, July 2014

Interface and Interpretation (pages 138–179)

  • How does Drucker define the term "interface"? How about the process of designing interfaces? What is her opinion of interface design processes as they are generally handled today?
  • What is Drucker's notion of "Humanistic Design"?
  • As a process, what factors do you feel are central to the design of interfaces that are missing from this article?

Database as Symbolic Form

http://manovich.net/content/04-projects/022-database-as-a-symbolic-form/19_article_1998.pdf
Lev Manovich, June 1999

  • How does Manovich see the opposition between database and narrative? Manovich talks about computer games as a form of Interactive Narrative. Can you speculate on other forms of interactive narratives (in our culture or imagined) that aren't computer games?
  • Database as Symbolic Form was written 19 years ago now. What has changed? What hasn't changed? Did Manovich's predictions come true?
  • Can you draw a connection between Manovich's ideas and your plan for your final project?

A Handmade Web

http://luckysoap.com/statements/handmadeweb.html J.R. Carpenter, Uniformagazine - issue five, January 2016

  • In your own words, what is the central thesis of this article?
  • Carpenter describes the handmade web as a form of resistance. In your own words, what is being resisted?
  • Reflecting on your own experiences, what are other examples of drawing attention the "physicality" of the web?

This Stands as a Sketch for the Future

David Reinfurt, July 2007

  • In your own words, what is the environment Cooper cultivated with the The Visible Language Workshop?
  • What was Cooper's intent with "Information Landscapes"? What was it responding to?
  • How has technology, and design practice, changed since Cooper's initial idea of the VLW?

Scroll, Skim, Stare

http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/scroll-skim-stare/ Orit Gat, April 2016

  • In your own words, what is the central thesis of this article?
  • Building on Gat's examples and thoughts on "an online exhibition platform"; What is a possible experience to realize this idea?
  • Aside from the examples (Tumblr, WordPress, Cargo Collective, etc.) in the article; what's an example of a "uniform platform" that could support/challenge Gat's thesis?

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?

https://thecreativeindependent.com/essays/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/ Laurel Schwulst, May 2018

  • Drawing from your own experiences—what are other metaphors we could use to describe a website?
  • What's an example that supports the idea of a website being "inherently unfinished"?
  • What are some possible approaches to "cultivating" a website?