Hey there! I hope everyone had a lovely Labor Day weekend. Here is a very well written, well researched article I stumbled upon that applies the theories of space, memory, and mapping to the art and science of web design. Check it out!
Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer
“Space, according to Lefebvre, is created by the flows and movements of relational networks—such as capital, power, and information—in, across, and through a given physical area. A building, in Lefebvre’s reading, is a map of the interactions of the people who inhabit it; an architect is not a builder in an otherwise empty wilderness, but an observer, chronicler, and shaper of the networks that exist around her—in short, a map maker. Websites informed by a Lefebvrian conception of cyberspace rather than a Cartesian one would provide truly user-centered design, by recognizing that it is the users themselves whose actions produce the website; the web designer merely facilitates that creation.”
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