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Design the web critically, questioning technology’s role in our lives.
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Critical Web Design

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    396 pages

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    25 August 2026

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Summary

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 enga…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262053167
ISBN-10:0262053160
Author:Xtine Burrough, Owen Mundy
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:396
Release Date:25 August 2026
Weight:369g
Dimensions:178mm x 229mm
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Critical Web Design by Xtine Burrough - ISBN: 9780262053167
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About The Author

Xtine Burrough

xtine burrough is a professor in the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology and the director of LabSynthE at the University of Texas, Dallas. She is the author of Foundations of Digital Art and Design with Adobe Creative Cloud and Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design and a coeditor of Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change.

Owen Mundy is Professor of the Practice in Film, Media, and Digital Studies at Davidson College and an artist, designer, and programmer whose work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, NPR, and Wired Magazine.

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