Principles for effective hypermedia design. (Designing, Testing, and Distributing Hypermedia)

From: Technical Communication | Date: August 1, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

Although hypermedia publications have become more commonplace, many fail the technical communicator's basic mission of providing clear, simple, concise assistance to the users of the publication. With additional capabilities such as sound, animation, multiple fonts, extensive graphics, color, and hidden layers of additional information, hypermedia documents have become design nightmares--ugly screens full of multiple fonts, insignificant boxes, irrelevant noises, and confusing webs of possible interactivity. While most computer users have become more sophisticated users of ...

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