Editing Lukas Engelhardt (section)

= Refining the Concept =

We continued discussing our concept and possible design decisions. We really wanted to make it an open interface that allows room for breaking rules and new ways of displaying and organising content. We looked at several contemporary websites and were also thinking about something that is self generating, or changes forms every time you visit the page. Daniel started scripting something that changed colour and font size based on how often a certain letter appeared in a text for example. In general we all agreed we wanted something “rough”, layered, maybe even chaotic.

In this stage we also came up with our idea for the comments. We were initially inspired by Soundcloud and were trying to translate that to our website: What if it’s possible to literally comment anything anywhere on the page, like a inboard? We tried finding existing examples online but didn’t find much.

At the same time we started thinking more about the content. We knew that we needed content in order to see where this was going, and we had gotten our first responses from alumni, even though we had not yet interviewed anybody. We started thinking about the situations we would be in with the alumni, and how we could influence them. Rhetorically but also through designed situations: where we would meet them, things we would prepare, how we would manage to keep the situation natural.

This made us question our role as editors more and more, or rather made us aware of it. While initially we were hoping for contributions by the alumni we realised more and more that we would have a direct impact on the content we would publish, that it would include our opinions, personalities and biases. 

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