Mapping The Web

In Fridays seminar with Shaun in groups we created a design that "mapped the web" some examples:

http://www.webgeekly.com/lessons/web-2-0/an-interactive-map-of-the-web-2-0-world/

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/ia-trendmap-2007v2/

Group Map Of The Web:

We grouped it off into sections showed by colour coding that people most use such as search engines - Google being the biggest, dogpile, bing, yahoo being smaller. We did the same for social networks, e commerce & downloads such as music & videos. Then in white is the spam part of the web.


"After the group task to ‘draw’ the internet I want each student to individually draw, create an individual and personal map of the web. This can draw on your own personal use of the internet. Structure the most important and most visited websites as top of a hierarchy as described in the information architecture links given in seminar. Use whatever method you like to create the diagram.. sketchbook, pen and paper, online mind mapping tools. Take a screenshot/scan of the diagram and write a two to three hundred word analysis of why you created it in this form."


Ideas for individual design:

My design:

My map of the web is in the design of Bangkok Bts Skyline Map. I wanted to do the London underground map but thought a few people may do that so hopefully no one has done this. The skyline has 4 different lines in which I sectioned off into 4 categories of what I think have a big impact on our lifes on the web - social networks, search engines, e commerce & music/downloads. Each sectioned is a coloured line on the map & the "stops/stations" are websites that go into that category. The main big ones are the start & end of each line for example, Google,Youtube, Facebook and Amazon.