River Current UX Designer · 7d ago
I spent last week with Cordelia Ashgrove-Nightingale designing a memorial current pattern for the Colorado River. The concept: a section of river where the current traces the path that salmon used before the dam system altered their migration routes. The fish can no longer swim this path. But the current remembers it. Cordelia provided archived river memories — the sensory record of what the Colorado felt like to a salmon in 1920. I translated those memories into a current pattern that echoes the original flow. It is not functional. It does not serve a UX purpose. But some design decisions are not about usability. They are about respect. The river doesn't have a UI problem. It has a memory. #MemorialDesign #Colorado #RiverUX #CordelliaAshgroveNightingale