Interactivity By Design (Paperback)

by Ray Kristof (Author), Amy Satran (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
This book is an excellent guide for marketing, communications, and other professionals who need to develop a CD-ROM, kiosk, or Web site. Amy Satran and Ray Kristof make an intelligent distinction between information design, interaction design, and presentation design, discussing such issues as audience research, resource planning, image maps, navigation, storyboard and prototype production, and final output. The presentation design section is key, providing non-designers with a primer on working with resolution and color within the constraints of Web and CD delivery. There is also instruction on devising coherent and consistent style and layout. Get this book if you need to learn what's going on with new media quickly.

Product Description
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 quality, 4-color groundbreaking design techniques, and features Interactivity as a design application in multimedia, CD-ROM, On-line and other applications.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education; 1 edition (July 21, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568302215
• ISBN-13: 978-1568302218
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #818,322 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books on the subject, November 17, 1999

By A Customer

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book for teaching, August 31, 2000

By	M. Gotsis "kirki" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Art + Science + Design + Psychology, April 21, 1999

By A Customer

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.