Cassiopeia – Subjective Browsing

Cassiopeia is a web browser. It is the interface where the user meets the internet and the portal through which she interacts with it. It offers 13 modes of interaction that prioritize exploration over practical use, inviting users to graphically interfere with how websites are rendered and to reveal the web's underlying structure as something both designed and re-designable.

It allows the user to play with the shape of websites, producing astonishing and unpredictable visuals, results that cannot be fully anticipated, and that continue to inspire our work.

Speculative browser featuring circular navigation interface structures, experimental web interactions, and code-based design interventions.Overlayed Interface of the critical web browser cassiopeia exploring new types of UI/UX Design that look behind the surface of typical web design.Screenshot of speculative design interventions within the cassiopeia browser made with code from different modules who are revealing the structures behind the surface of the web. Revealing commented lines in css and html code, made visible with cassiopeia browser exploring the internet with different perspectives.Experimental webdesign showing multilayered fragments of code made visible overlayed by a circular transparent interface design oredered in a spiral.Browser module replacing the image with its alt-text, to make visible what lays under the surface of the internet. Screenshot out of the critical web browser „cassiopeia – subjective browser“ made at zurich university of the arts by Sarah Iller.
  • Medium Browser
  • Service Design, Coding
  • Client BA Diploma, Zurich University of the Arts
  • Industry Tech, Creative
  • Year 2025