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| Title: | METHODOLOGIES FOR DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING HYPERMEDIA APPLICATIONS |
| Authors: | Isakowitz, Tomas
Thuering, Manfred |
| Keywords: | Design process
Hypertext structure
Hypertext structuring tools
Hypertext rhetoric |
| Issue Date: | Dec-1994 |
| Publisher: | Stern School of Business, New York University |
| Series/Report no.: | IS-94-08 |
| Abstract: | Hypermedia design, as any other design activity, may be observed
according to two points of view: methods which suggest milestones to
guide the designer's work and process which concerns the actual detailed
behavior of the designer at work. Cognitive studies assess that mental
processes involved in any design process show widely shared human
characteristics regardless to the used design method. Thereby, they
provide general keys to help designers. Thus, a hypertext design
environment should equally consider the two dimensions of a hypertext
design activity, in particular it should support the natural design
process specificities, mainly the incremental and opportunist aspects.
The paper focuses on the hypertext design as a computer supported human
activity. It examines what is general both in the design methods and in
the design process of hypertexts in order to determine which general
features are helpful to designers. This analysis has raised from the
observation of the behavior of MacWeb users during design tasks. It is
related to sound and well known results in cognitive science. The paper
also describes how the proposed features are implemented in the MacWeb system. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/14239 |
| Appears in Collections: | IOMS: Information Systems Working Papers
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