Critical Web Design

Name: Critical Web Design
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ISBN: 9780262053167

Xtine Burrough, Owen Mundy

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MIT Press
25 August 2026

Computing: general

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.

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

By: Xtine Burrough, Owen Mundy
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262053167
ISBN 10: 0262053160
Pages: 396
Publication Date: 25 August 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.