After the iterative exploration over digital publishing decisions and content, I decided to combine these newly acquired knowledge and create further experimental sites. It is a barrage of found contents across the cyberworld––comments threads, trending hashtags, lines from news stories, tweets and Instagram stories––all these detritus stacked upon one another, mimicking a brick wall.
Upon a quick impression, the user is granted the control of the page’s content through the hover-to-reveal function. The liberity to reveal or conceal contents to their liking, turns out to be an illusion due to this digital publishing’s nature, undesired contents are in fact unavoidable if the user wishes to reveal certain content.
To move forward, I focused on the prompting theme of the good life, and gathered contents ranging from Instagram influencers’ posts with impressive stats to timeless interpretation of eudaimonia from classical literatures––all put in the same space, as a query for the validity of their original architectures.
To bring out the interrogation, I optimised the hover-to-reveal experience, toning down the frustrative UX to make it less stark and distractive, while pairing them with images and footage for users to discover, interact and contemplate. I am hoping to sketch out a candid cyberscape––littered with detritus and basked in the scorching sun outside the allegorical cave––the rays of an unalienated reality of this world inhabited by us.