Principles for Designing Multimedia

1. Principles for Designing Multimedia AFL Fall 2003 Nicole Huang

2. Principles of Multimedia Design • The principle of user profiling • The principle of metaphor • The principle of feature exposure • The principle of coherence • The principle of state visualization • The principle shortcuts • The principle of focus

3. Principles of Multimedia Design 8. The principle of grammar 9. The principle of help 10. The principle of safety 11. The principle of context 12. The principle of aesthetics 13. The principle of user testing 14. The principle of humility • By Talin available online: http://www.sylvantech.com/~talin/projects/ui_design.html

4. Principles for Multimedia Design • Goal • Audience • Create a single Sytle • Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity • Visual Consistency • User Control • Clarity • Sence of Place • Aesthetics

5. Most Important!! GOALS 1. Who’s the audience (user) ? 2. What are the user’s goal? 3. What are the user’s skills and experience? 4. What are the user’s need? designing for the user, not yourself

6. Elements of Designing Multimedia • Effective Multimedia presentation from South Utah University http://lib.li.suu.edu/library/wbi/dmp/index.htm