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Designing Interactive Digital Media

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Luppa has been working with Disney,Hewlett Packard and Apple computers and he is currently vice-president of Paramount Digital Entertainment. His book is one of the best publications in this field. He gives examples on interactive teching methods and evaluation criteria, implementation issues etc. (Multimedia workflow models,designing documents,interactive entertainment). A must for techer's and lecturer's, goes beyond the counting of pixels of a desktop-icon. I am lecturer for Interactive Media Design at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore.

I found the book to be a clear and simple explanation of the design principles needed to create excellent web sites and CD-ROMs. It was also an exceptional review of instructioanl design strategies for use with interacive video and the internet.

I can't believe a student considered this a book for the "feeble-minded". While the introduction quickly covers the basic technologies driving media today, the flowcharting principles and media management guidelines are top notch. This book provides an excellent foundation for getting your multimedia team of designers, programmers and producers off on the right foot. I made it required reading for the members of my staff, and I recommend it to all of my students.

Basically I (we) had to buy this book for a college course on New Media aka N100. Our instructor Mr. Berry thought that it was a good intro book on the subject. Well, he was correct, if your the kind of numbskull who hasn't a clue as to what Multi-Media or New Media is. The book assumes that the reader is for one a complete moron on the subject. In some cases, I myself living in Indianapolis can see how this may be true with the local hayseed population. The author gives a few weak examples on Digital Media here and there but nothing worth wasting your time reading. The author never goes into detail on any given subject. Merely, he throws around a few techno babble words and mentions a few high end programs in a lame'o attempt to impress the reader. One will gain little insight or any usable data from the chapters in this book other than a few easily memorizable how-to steps explained in the later chapters. I learned more on my own by listening to the sometimes tiresome classroom discussions on the subject by my less than intelligent classmates. If an individual really needs to learn more on this subject he or she should pick up a magazine on Multi Media applications. For one it would be cheaper than buying this book.