What Makes A Person

What Makes A Person is a short Decker-built memoir that worries at identity, memory, and the slippery border between first person and third. Personal photographs and intentionally elusive buttons turn reading into a small act of searching, with full-screen viewing strongly encouraged.

What is What Makes A Person?

The page begins with pieces of a person rather than a tidy definition: teeth, laughter, tears, memories, and a voice that cannot decide whether it is speaking as I, she, or both. That grammatical wobble is the point. Iris Anais folds personal photographs into a nonlinear Decker piece, then tucks the controls into the material closely enough that finding the next button becomes part of reading. The interface does not merely carry the memoir; it makes uncertainty tactile, asking you to hunt for the shape of a self while the work hunts too.

What you can do there

• Read a personal reflection on identity and memory
• Find and press intentionally tucked-away buttons

Why we picked it

This is web-native memoir with its elbows out. The hidden-button device turns an abstract question about identity into a concrete little search, while the personal imagery and restless voice keep the experiment intimate instead of clinical.

How to get the most from it

Switch to full screen before starting, then read slowly and scan each composition for the next button. The controls are intentionally easy to overlook, so treat the hunt as part of the piece rather than interface failure. A typical visit is only a few minutes.

Good to know

The work is short, nonlinear, text-led, and built in Decker. Its navigation depends on visually locating deliberately tucked-away buttons, which may be frustrating for some visitors. Keyboard-only, touch, screen-reader, audio, and save behavior are undocumented.

Who made it, and when?

Iris Anais is the credited creator or organization.