(SB2) CONTEXTUAL RESEARCH

 EXISTING NAVIGATION APP  

• The app is designed for a broad audience. 

GOALS:

• Exploration tool that helps users learn about things happening nearby 
• Allow users to create their own events
• Provide convenient and friendly application behaviour
• Allow users to create and configure areas on the map to prioritise events that are interesting to them specifically 

MT THOUGHTS 

• This is actually my first time looking at UX/UI designs. I realised that most of them are very user friendly which they tried to put themselves into users’ shoes in order to create a design which provides the best users’ experience. In order to achieve this, they tend to focus on the usability of the app and make the app easy to use, with simple and obvious buttons. 
• Many of the apps also applied some elements to make the app applicable to each different users. This way of personalising each download from different users is really smart. They can also create a community of their users and update their app based on the data collected form the users’ behaviour. 

NET ART ANTHOLOGY

AESTHETIC 

• aims to address the shortage of historical perspectives on a field in which even the most prominent artworks are often inaccessible
• The website showcases a lot of different net art sites created by different artists, they put up random stuff on the sites using the net art aesthetic 

ELEMENTS 

• GIFs
• The background changes colour when I hover my mouse around 
• Underlined titles 

MY THOUGHTS 

• I would really want to try out this style for brief2. I realised that they use a lot of GIFs when creating net art. GIF would be a really good element for my website as it represents the idea of looping. 
• In the past, net art did not even exist. They are normal websites that people used to provide information online. However, nowadays, it became a particular design style which is old-school and strongly aesthetic based. People are trying to imitate the style and trying to convert different contemporary designs into the from of net art. I think that this would be a really good way to link to the theme of nostalgia, using an old school way to communicate a contemporary idea or an ongoing event. This way of communication through the aesthetic make audiences reminisce about the past, which I thought would be applicable to my project. 

HISTORY OF NET ART

• Net art is an elusive and sometimes anarchic art form which uses the Internet as its primary material. Net art works often draw on data from other Internet materials and websites, which helps give them their distinctive dynamics and transience.
• historical term for early net art, which can be dated to having run roughly from 1993/94 to the early 00s.
• We can recognise a clear code aesthetic, where the use of faults, or so-called ‘glitches’, act as a methodical conceit in net art.
• That net art can be linked to physical space, some create works that activated both physical and digital online space in a process where one supported the other.
• e.g. Antonio Muntada’s The File Room (1994) 
  
• temporary physical installation and an open-ended online database that contain records of past cases of censorship around the world.

SEE PALA

Aldous Massie•

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