I haven't got the words for it...

Browsing some of my most-looked at webpages, I noticed how text-heavy they were. Imagine a world without words - would we still be able to get around using signs and symbols only? What if you couldn't read? Does that then impact how you would view the web... Of course it would, but does that call for a re-think of website navigation; relying more on pictorial elements than words?

As an experiment, I created this image of a My Ebay page, and removed all of the words. Despite being rather lovely in it's abstraction, it's all rather confusing isn't it?! Try and make head or tail of that! The only things close to being easily navigable are the webpage icons in my favourites bar on the left.