Wolfgang Schuler

This book is devoted to the question of how to design and develop, maintain, and use a hypermedia interface. It is based on a workshop on methodological issues of the design of hypertext-based user interfaces held in July 1993 in Darmstadt, Germany, as part of the ESPRIT project HIFI (Hypertext Interface For Information: Multimedia and Relational Databases). The contributions have been thoroughly revised and enlarged as well as harmonized for the book. Four broad topics are discussed: foundations of hypermedia design, metaphors for hypermedia interfaces, evaluation of approaches and products, and detailed design proposals for the interface artefact and guidelines. The methodological approach is demonstrated by two prototypical hypermedia applications (for banks and for hospitals).

Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia

Norbert Streitz

Jörg Hannemann

One can observe that a wide range of human activities involves various forms of de sign. Especially if the goal implies the creation of an artifact, design is at the very center of these activities. It is the general understanding in the public to place design especially in the context of, for example, fashion, furniture, household items, cars, and architecture or in a more general way at the intersection of art and engineering. Of course, in the field of information technology, developers of software and hard ware are called system 'designers'. Design can be identified and considered in the context of many activities related to pUblishing: creating a product ad in a magazine, designing the layout of a newspaper, authoring a book. Summarizing these exam ples as 'creating documents', these are activities where two challenges with respect to design have to be met. Designing the content, its structure, and its relationship to the existing knowledge of potential readers is one, while the other refers to the 'rhetorical' aspects including designing the presentation of the material in order to communicate the content. Publishing is communicating knowledge.

Wolfgang Schuler

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