Sandra Antunes

Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Departamento de Informática, Adjunct

Other Affiliations:
University of Aveiro, Communication and Art (DeCA), Department Member
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Design, Web Design, Museum, Interface Design, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, and 23 moreMuseu Web, Museums, Culture, Visual Studies, Environmental Sustainability, Informatics, Product Design, Design Innovation, User Centered Design, Emotional design, User Experience (UX), Design thinking, Web Design, HTML5, Responsive Web, Semantic Web, HCI, User-Centered, Ui, IxD, Service, Usability, Illustration, Illustration Theory, and Illustration Historyedit
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The present study was developed in the scope of a Design PhD after identifying a significant gap in the areas of preservation, exhibition, and history of Portuguese Web design. The solution was found in the design of interfaces for a web-based museum for Portuguese Web design from a design perspective. But before that was necessary to build a historical framework of the Web and Web design in Portugal. After the study finished, it was concluded that in the construction of the museum collection it isn’t enough to preserve the digital artefact ‘per se’. It was also concluded that design practice must also be preserved, highlighting the role of the designer in the construction of the collection. In collaboration with the curator in the role of mediator, together they build the collection. At the same time the "anatomy of use" of the interactive artefacts must be preserved, including the participation of the museum visitor in order to create a comprehensive and representative c...

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With the birth of the World Wide Web in the early nineties of the twentieth century a new artefact arose, the website, an object digital in nature, immaterial, code-based and code-dependent, accessed and experienced through hardware and software with short life spans, which render the website rapidly obsolete and easily replaced. An object nearly always short lived and that when it disappears leaves hardly any trace. This nature poses serious difficulties to the exhibition and preservation of a collection comprised of such artefacts, subject that only recently started to be addressed from a Museology design standpoint.
Our research identified only two cases of web-based museums exhibiting artefacts of Web design they are digitalcraft.org and webmuseum.dk. A qualitative research based analysis aimed at observing and describing allowed the identification of issues and possible answers, essential in giving direction towards a future proposal for a Web design museum in the Portuguese context.

Tendo-se verificado lacunas nas áreas da preservação, exposição e história do Web design português, este estudo direcionou-se no sentido duma proposta para as colmatar. Propôs-se, um sistema para a resolução dessas lacunas através do “desenho” de interfaces de um museu baseado na Web para o Web design português, desde uma perspectiva do design. Para isso, foi primeiro necessário construir um enquadramento histórico da Web e do Web design em Portugal.

Após o estudo efectuado, concluiu-se que na construção do acervo museológico do Web design, não é suficiente a preservação do artefacto digital per se, mas que deve preservar-se a prática projetual, realçando o papel do designer na construção do acervo. Em colaboração, com o curador no papel de mediador, juntos constroem a coleção. Ao mesmo tempo deve preservar-se a ‘anatomia de uso’ destes artefactos interativos, incluindo para isso a participação do visitante do museu, de forma a criar um acervo cultural abrangente e representativo. Um museu baseado na Web 2.0, tem características específicas, que advêm do meio e que são projetadas nas estratégias museológicas propostas.

Considerando as hipóteses de investigação e a abordagem metodológica utilizada, foi desenvolvida uma proposta inicial, para dar início a um futuro museu do Web design português, materializada, através de uma visualização front-end do serviço do museu.