Multimedia Literacy

Chapter 10: Designing Multimedia

After completing this chapter, you will know how to:

• Visualize the web you create when making links among multimedia objects
• Recognize the five basic multimedia design paradigms
• Use the linear list design to let the user move back and forth in a sequence of screens
• Use the menu design to provides users with a choice of multiple items onscreen
• Use the hierarchical design to provide levels of choices by linking menus to menus
• Realize how the multiple linking in a network design provides the richest form of interactivity
• Visualize how hybrid designs can incorporate lists, menus, hierarchies, and networks
• Plan screen sequences for handling the user’s choices
• Use mind mapping tools to visualize and think through your design
• Define the ADDIE process of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation
• Team review storyboards to save time and money during development
• Flowchart the logic guiding multiscreen interactions

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