Abstract
It is now possible to include complex visual movement in screen interfaces, including those that enable web browsing on different media devices. This article investigates the potential for employing movement in web browsing – or more specifically, how motional form may be connected to interface actions. The investigation is carried out through design experimentation. Techniques of ‘motion sketching’ have been developed and utilized in a practice-based research project. The resulting motion sketches are analysed as realizations of complex mediation – by drawing on social semiotics and the concept of action from Leont’ev. The article argues that motional form is made meaningful through connotations and experiential metaphors, and suggests ten provisional principles for how motional form may be used in web browsing. This challenges notions of form and function in current interface design and how social semiotic theory may be produced.
Highlights
Digital artifacts permeate our daily life in work and play
Attention in design research has been given to the design of Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) (e.g. Hummels, et al 2007), but there is still a need to investigate the potentials and shaping of dynamic screen interfaces
Taking the Opera Media Collections (OMC) service as a starting point, we identified a set of possible interface actions, such as adding a media item or opening a media collection
Summary
We live in an ‘interfaces culture‘ (Johnson 1997) where a range of activities are mediated by screens-based interfaces such as mobile phones, laptops and gaming platforms. These interfaces mediate a range of individual and social activities that take place in ‘information space’ (Benyon 2001), including web browsing, reading, gaming and interpersonal communication. Hummels, et al 2007), but there is still a need to investigate the potentials and shaping of dynamic screen interfaces This includes the need for a critical vocabulary for describing as well as analyzing movement in the interface. In this article I describe movement as motional form to bring attention to the shaping of movement through design
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