Critical Web Design
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Product Details
Author:
Xtine Burrough, Owen Mundy
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
398
Publisher:
MIT Press (July 21, 2026)
Imprint:
The MIT Press
Release Date:
July 21, 2026
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780262053167
ISBN-10:
0262053160
Weight:
13oz
Dimensions:
7" x 9"
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RandomHouse
List Price:
$75.00
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
24
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$57.75
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P-RH
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Overview
An innovative, learn-by-doing textbook that teaches how to design for the web while engaging a critical lens on the technoculture that sustains it.
Critical web design, like critical design, employs a social usefulness to challenge the ways technology enters our lives. It reclaims the mechanisms, tools, and practices used to produce coercive and commercial interfaces, harnessing the power of design and networked information to question preconceptions about the medium itself. This engaging, practical textbook explores how to design for the web while maintaining a critical understanding of the technoculture that sustains it. Motivated by new media art practices and speculative design, xtine burrough and Owen Mundy teach readers to conceptualize, design, and program responsive websites as both an applied and creative practice, making professional front end development tools accessible to all.
Critical web design, like critical design, employs a social usefulness to challenge the ways technology enters our lives. It reclaims the mechanisms, tools, and practices used to produce coercive and commercial interfaces, harnessing the power of design and networked information to question preconceptions about the medium itself. This engaging, practical textbook explores how to design for the web while maintaining a critical understanding of the technoculture that sustains it. Motivated by new media art practices and speculative design, xtine burrough and Owen Mundy teach readers to conceptualize, design, and program responsive websites as both an applied and creative practice, making professional front end development tools accessible to all.
- Learn-by-doing approach builds technical skills in interface design, usability/accessibility, and coding in HTML/CSS and Javascript
- Historical, political, and philosophical context relates the “why” argument for learning to code
- Case studies and interviews with artists and designers bring ideas to life
- Supplemental resources include code, exercises, and demonstrations
