Interactivity by Design

by Ray Kristof and Amy Satran

This is the first title of an exciting new series from Adobe Press. The book explores how to use Interactivity, one of the hottest topics in the computer design industry. It highlights professional... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568302215
• ISBN13: 9781568302218
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Length: 99998 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A great book for teaching

This is nicely organized, introduces important concepts and explains them in plain english. I used it as a textbook for a multimedia class and it was well received. You will not find fancy tricks and designs, but you will get a good overview of multimedia, interface design and project management. It is 'outdated' so it is not suitable for experts but its information is excellent for an intro class, especially for people with little graphics experience.

Great resource!

This book provides valuable information about the interactive authoring process that is independant of specific authoring tools. The content is presented in a logical manner that is relevant and easy to follow. I recommend this book to all of my students!

Wonderful book

Our teacher issued this book as our textbook for our Multimedia Design class. He has been using it for the past few years for all of his multimedia classes because he hasn't found a better one. Don't let the thinness of the book fool you (only about 120 pages.) All I can say is that this is one of the best Multimedia books I've ever seen. Although it was published in 1995, the material still applies to multimedia today. It's very simple and easy to read. It also provides several examples of "great" design and "bad" design by using pictures. (It's true that pictures speak a 1000 words!) For anyone who is interested in being a designer, this is definitely a great book to get.

One of the best books on the subject

Highly recommend this book for people at all levels of experience. I often give it to instructional designers new to online design. Clear, concise, genuinely helpful -- a well-written, extremely valuable resource for anyone involved in the design and execution of any product using multimedia. On top of all that, it's a visually appealing and well-designed publication.Whether you're an instructional designer, a project manager, a webmaster, an applications developer, or GUI designer, you will probably find something new here that you didn't know.I especially recommend getting this book if you are looking for a tool to help you put together good conceptual presentations of any multimedia, interactive project -- you can step-by-step your way to a complete presentation that will answer every question your audience might have about your product, and make sure you're not leaving any holes in your design at the same time.

Art + Science + Design + Psychology

I'm kind of tired of those dense, cerebral, "engineering by acronym" books produced by apparently brilliant programmers or other computer scientists who are doing, teaching, trying interface design. I am still amazed that these two accomplished this 131 page book in 131 pages (not 550). They did it by practicing what they preach: Integrating text with visuals with links (at least within the constraints of the book artifact). I refer to it often just to refresh myself and remind myself of what I enjoy doing for a living. And I still learn from it too. Perfect as a gift for colleagues.