Nami-project proposal

Why do you want to make?

There are numerous websites existing in the (net)world and they entail another numerous webpages embedded inside themselves. Today most of them looks identical each other so that visitors wandering here and there aren’t likely to have difficulties to adjust their brain (mode) among these overflowing channels. But then I somehow feel that pretty many websites made by professional designers and developers seem to repeat a few templates with well-organised grids and navigations.In such webpages I can easily scan through essential text and images in a few minutes, then quickly process them into commercial or research activities, which are what the creators intend. All sounds good and make sense. But I can’t stop feeling that something in such a good and efficient web context seems to stress me out. Questioning (to my self) why I’m uncomfortable, I realised that I can’t really feel intimacy and independence there.

As for these two notions, intimacy and independence, I mean that it seems like there is limitation of user movements in most websites, because most of them tend to repeat a few linear navigating systems. For instance, scrolling down is the most common mechanism of the web navigation, especially in mobile devices, for a reason that it’s known to be the most intuitive and easy in the screen. But I see this mechanism could also easily exhaust users. All the easy and self-evident navigation systems made by professionals who are called as UI/UX designers indeed has made users’ internet activities much more convenient, easy, fast. But their continual conformity to the instructed system also depletes their will and involvement in the context. There are only my ‘behaviours’ exist, but not ‘actions’ (QUOTE SILVIO LURROSO’S ARTICLE)
With this observation I am curious to explore potentials of diverse and active involvements of users in terms of web navigationcontext. (Ultimately I question user experiences in the webpages could be a bit more meaningful in a sense of autonomy. This also means that I also question about the pervasive term which is ‘UX design’, User Experience in the web design industry. )

What and how do you want to make?

I imagine the end result of my project will be a website format. What will my website include as a content exactly will be decided along my research plan.

Firstly I’d like to see if my critical point of view that linear navigation rules in web design seem to draw ‘the limited behaviours, the feeling of passiveness of users’ is a sharable matter with others as well. Thus I’d like to conduct some survey about user experiences in the most web context.

The survey will ask questions below : (Questions about passiveness)

What kind of movement do you often take when you enter a webpage?

in which sense you’re able to enjoy in the webpage?

In which sense you’re exhausted in webpages?

What makes you stay in a webpage? Which elements?

What makes you exit in a webpage? Which elements?

(show what i made then ask) In this page, where and how would you navigate yourself?

(e.g. to the right/ top, scrolling down, clicking?)