Website Re-design using Ship of Theseus Theory

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What is Ship of Theseus Theory?

The Ship of Theseus explores the question of whether a thing retains its identity after having all of its original components replaced.This is named after the mythical king and founder-hero of Athens. Theseus sailed onto a ship to save the city's children from King Minos after killing him.

The basic thoughts on the Ship of Theseus is like imagine that 'Theseus' ship, decayes over the course of many years, gradually all the parts of its replaced one by one. Now,eventually every single parts of its, like old planks. anchors, hull are replaced by the new and stronger one. The philosopher Thomas Hobbes expanded the thought of experiment by that someone else accumulated all of the ship's damaged components as they were discarded and replaced by the Greeks and utilized those rotting planks to construct a second ship. Hobbes argued that which of the two ships that followed—the Athenians or the Custodians—was the "original" ship?

The same experiment is applied in design. The theory of the Ship of Theseus is applied in design to improve the existing one and gradually change it into a new and original design.

The experiment consists of three steps: Identify, Clone, and Replace

Step 1: Identify: Selecting a existing design as a base. The base I have taken is John Mark McMillan's website page. This is to help us to get an idea about the layout typography, shapes, colors,images.

Step2. Clone: Implementing the same typeface, illustrations, and layouts to generate an exact replica of the original design.

Step 3. Replace: Replace each elements one by one with the fittest substitutions. in this step we will focus on duplicating the design gradually with images, font, color, and shapes.

This is done so that at the end of the experiment we can have entirely a different design, than from the original one from which we have started with.