blogs

thanks to some prior knowledge setting up Github was not too difficult. i do find publishing to pages a bit confusing...
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Reflect on Moulthrop, S. (2003) ‘You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media (1991)’...
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My user alignment I believe would be anyone in tech or gamers who appreciate that design approach, a design like that of Bandai Namco or Kojima Productions' website is something that I find really interesting...
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I want my user to focus on the text and items displayed on the screen without much interference. To further this I've made use of space and bold, big text to capture the user's attention and guide them to page elements that are relevant for that scroll, I want to curate what they see, e.g., on my home page when the user scrolls down the previously displayed text...
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This a UI and UX analysis of two South African brands. The purpose is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the two websites...
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As I read Nanjira Sambuli's op-ed on digital equity and Sasha Costanza-Chock's book on design justice, I agreed with the fundamental principles of inclusivity and representation, yet I could not help but want to push back against some of the assumptions, most egregiously the one about decelerating technological advancement in an effort to create space for ethical reflection. Personally, whereas ethics and inclusiveness are paramount...
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Reading the article “How Geography Shapes—and Is Shaped by—the Internet” by Greenstein, Forman, and Goldfarb (2018) through a South African lens reveals something important: even though the authors aim to show how internet infrastructure interacts with geography in intricate ways, they still write from a perspective where connectivity, infrastructure, and English are largely taken for granted, being an constant of day-to-day life...
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Sheena Magenya's article on GenderIT.org in 2020 is a vision of an African feminist internet that subverts the reproduction of offline injustices online. Read from a decolonial perspective, her work is a challenge to digital coloniality, epistemic injustice, and colonial power relations embedded within technology. Magenya argues that even when framed as neutral, the internet reproduces the prevailing oppressions for African women, LGBTIQA people, and persons with disability. This remains the case in decolonial views of digital spaces as sites of struggle where coloniality of power determines access and visibility...
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When thinking about how our code matters in decolonialism, I’ve realised in my own practice how much of coding is tied to English. Even though I speak English often, it’s not my first language, and yet, all my comments, all the syntax, and all the structure of code are in English. It’s not just the language itself, but the way HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and even documentation are built around a Western way of thinking. It makes it hard to imagine coding in a way that feels more personal or local...
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An ethical internet, to me, looks like one where every country and culture has a real voice and presence, not just in using the internet, but in shaping what it is, how it works, and what gets shared. As it stands right now, a lot of the internet is dominated by Western audiences, platforms, and priorities. This means that the stories told, the knowledge shared, and even the values baked into websites and apps often come from a narrow slice of the world. As Laura Stein points out in “Speech Without Rights”, most of what we consider the “public” internet is actually controlled by private entities that decide who gets to speak and what gets heard...
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In both my artistic and programming work, I try to approach justice and ethics with some kind of awareness of my own limits. I don’t believe in assuming what people need or want, I’d rather make sure the people I’m designing or building for have a voice at every stage of the process. That means involving them early on, listening carefully, and being willing to grow and change my direction based on their input...
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