these urls will save the irl
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These URLs will save the IRL is a result of a two-year-long speculation on the topic of German art schools’ websites. The project started a hypothesis that German art schools sometimes deliberately create opaque interaction patterns to create an obstacle for potential applicants. During the research, I conducted UX tests, accessed archived versions of the websites, made design/UX analysis, comparison tables, wrote a manuscript, and travelled on the spot undercover to compare the website and real-life accessibility. This turned into the publication, written by me and collaboratively designed by 25 students of University of Arts Bremen and Klasse Digitale Grafik Hamburg.
about the book
These URLs will save the IRL is a long-lasting project that explores the opaque and non-obvious patterns of German website design. The websites of art and design schools were researched since in these institutions one can learn the main UX design principles. This publication is a result of this research, a mixture of subjective storytelling with objective implementations such as website descriptions and UX tests.
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