To help me start to look at the design features that feed into assisting a particular digital text audience, I’ve come up with the following ten dichotomies illustrating the difference between scholar-focused digital texts (i.e. the majority of digital text projects) and those digital texts with more aesthetic, immersive, reader-focused aims.
Monthly Archives:: February 2011
“Aesthetic Provocations”: Reading Speclab toward Reader-Focused Digital Text Design
Johanna Drucker’s Speclab isn’t explicitly about digital text design, but I found strong resonances to it in Speclab’s challenge to the digital humanities to include more aesthetic, performative digital projects.
