The Spatial Web: Interfaces that Surround Us

The next generation of the internet will not live on screens—it will exist around us. The Spatial Web: Interfaces that Surround Us explores how digital interfaces escape rectangles and become part of physical space, shaping how we see, navigate, and interact with information.
This book takes a future-facing, conceptual approach to spatial interfaces. It examines how persistent digital layers, context-aware content, and environmental interaction redefine what an interface is. Instead of clicking and scrolling, users glance, gesture, move, and inhabit information.
Rather than focusing on devices or platforms, the book focuses on *presence*. It explains how spatial interfaces change attention, memory, and behavior when information appears where it is needed—at the moment it matters. The emphasis is on understanding how interface design evolves when the world itself becomes the canvas.
You will explore:
• How interfaces move from screens into space
• Why spatial context changes interaction patterns
• How persistent digital layers reshape daily experience
• Why attention management becomes critical
• How interface design adapts to embodied users
This book is for designers, technologists, and strategists thinking beyond apps and screens. If digital information is beginning to surround us, this book explains how interfaces must evolve to remain useful, humane, and intelligible.