Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond (Interactive Technologies) [Paperback]

Jakob Nielsen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0125184085 | ISBN-13: 978-0125184083 | Publication Date: March 13, 1995

Based on his best-selling HyperText and HpyerMedia, Jakob Nielsen takes hypertext a step further--to the Internet. Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond explores new and developing applications in multimedia and hypertext as well as offering coverage of the use of HTML (hypertext markup language) and the World Wide Web with interfaces such as Mosaic and Netscape.

* Includes a large number of richly illustrated examples of a wide variety of new hypermedia systems.
* Provides a range of strategies for overcoming information overload.
* Thorougly discusses a number of new applications, including distribution of hypertext tools via the Internet.
* Explains copyright issues for users and develeopers, and usability issues for hypertext.
* Forecasts the future of the field in the long and short term.

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From the Back Cover

Based on his best-selling HyperText and HpyerMedia, Jakob Nielsen takes hypertext a step further--to the Internet. Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond explores new and developing applications in multimedia and hypertext as well as offering coverage of the use of HTML (hypertext markup language) and the World Wide Web with interfaces such as Mosaic and Netscape.

Features

• Includes a large number of richly illustrated examples of a wide variety of new hypermedia systems.
  
• Provides a range of strategies for overcoming information overload.
  
• Thorougly discusses a number of new applications, including distribution of hypertext tools via the Internet.
  
• Explains copyright issues for users and develeopers, and usability issues for hypertext.
  
• Forecasts the future of the field in the long and short term.

About the Author

Called the world's leading expert on Web usability by US News and World Report, Jakob Nielsen today serves as user advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group. In the course of a career in which he held influential positions at Sun Microsystems, Bellcore, and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, Nielsen founded the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation. He holds 58 US patents, many of which focus on ways to make the Internet easier to use. He has written the Alertbox column on Web usability since 1995 and is the author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity and Usability Engineering, plus eight other books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (March 13, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0125184085
• ISBN-13: 978-0125184083
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,488,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D. is a principal of Nielsen Norman Group. He is the founder of the "discount usability engineering" movement, which emphasizes fast and efficient methods for improving the quality of user interfaces. Nielsen was noted as "the world's leading expert on Web usability" by U.S. News and World Report and "the next best thing to a true time machine" by USA Today. Nielsen's Alertbox column on Web usability has been published on the Internet since 1995 and currently has about 200,000 readers. From 1994 to 1998, Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer. His previous affiliations include Bell Communications Research, the Technical University of Denmark, and the IBM User Interface Institute. See his biography page at useit.com for additional biographical information.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond the Internet and Beyond, August 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond (Interactive Technologies) (Paperback)

Nielsen wrote a very interesting book. Most users know only of hypertext structures by the Internet, but Nielsen makes the world go round. I thought there where five or six different types of hypertext, but by reading this book I had to change my view on Hypertext structures very rapidly. I didn't expect so many different types. Nielsen soon changed the way I look at Hypertext structures and usibality of systems. Nielsen has a very clear style of writing, he offers lots of examples and he has a great sense of humour too. I can recommend this book to everyone who want to know more about hypertext structures, usability and the Internet. Especially those who are working in the field of education, webdesign and marketing should read this book. It offers a good scope on the world of hypertext structures, it's written in a clear and understandable way, and it's fun to read too!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars User interface perspective, October 8, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond (Interactive Technologies) (Paperback)

Nielsen gives you a thorough user interface treatment of hypermedia, with plenty of examples and empirical evidence to back up his claims. A good book to have on the shelf and peruse BEFORE you start your next Web project: someone else has probably already done something similar, so why not see what they did first before trying to reinvent the wheel?

4.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to hypermedia, December 16, 2001

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Nicolai Knudsen (Aalborg, Aalborg Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond (Interactive Technologies) (Paperback)

This "old" book is still the best hypermedia book on the marked !