THE HYPERLINK AS A NARRATIVE
SCHOOL WORK–HONOURS THESIS
2020-2021
︎ Print and Digital Media
︎ Web Design
︎ User Experience
As a part of the curriculum of my fourth year at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art, and enrolment in the honours design program, we were assigned the word act; and had to create a work representative of our interpretation of this theme. For this project, my work has grown to become an exploration of the performative qualities embedded within digital platforms and how they influence individual navigational experiences. I have also chosen to represent the ways in which physical, printed materials are able to act as an extension of the digital platform.
The poster forms work to be a representation of the visual language that frequently appears throughout the platforms. Through the use of scale and bold visuals, they serve as a reflection of a digital space within the world, but are able to grant you an understanding of the way in which the digital space I have created. The instruction manuals works to bridge the poster forms to the webpage. The manual is a more-direct reference to the imagery and visual language of the website and is paired with step-by-step instructions to assist in grasping the ways in which the user should handle the pages they encounter. Through the use of formal language, the manual implies that there is an approach that is proven to be most convenient or successful, but the instructions still retain enough ambiguity to allow for a variety of experiences to be had by different users.
︎ Web Design
︎ User Experience
As a part of the curriculum of my fourth year at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art, and enrolment in the honours design program, we were assigned the word act; and had to create a work representative of our interpretation of this theme. For this project, my work has grown to become an exploration of the performative qualities embedded within digital platforms and how they influence individual navigational experiences. I have also chosen to represent the ways in which physical, printed materials are able to act as an extension of the digital platform.
The poster forms work to be a representation of the visual language that frequently appears throughout the platforms. Through the use of scale and bold visuals, they serve as a reflection of a digital space within the world, but are able to grant you an understanding of the way in which the digital space I have created. The instruction manuals works to bridge the poster forms to the webpage. The manual is a more-direct reference to the imagery and visual language of the website and is paired with step-by-step instructions to assist in grasping the ways in which the user should handle the pages they encounter. Through the use of formal language, the manual implies that there is an approach that is proven to be most convenient or successful, but the instructions still retain enough ambiguity to allow for a variety of experiences to be had by different users.