On-demand Information (reader centered, not top down)
- Readers have somewhat more power in relation to authors than in print texts (they can chose links; use search tools)
- Use hierarchical organization only when other user-created modes are available.
- Since people have different leaning and user styles, create redundancy (multiple approaches) in. Remember, your way may be more intelligent than others, but not everyone is as intelligent as you are. Tell yourself that.
- User-centered design: incorporate (a) professional multimedia dsigners and (b) user testing at an early stange, not as an afterthought.
- Use features because they work, because they do something you need done, and not because they are fashionable or cool.
Location-independent information makes any source, site, document a temporary "center."
- How can you retain readers?
- Good design, high speed, tantalizing possibilities keep people reading
- Need for new forms of system- and author-created orientation/rhetorics.
Image, sound, and movement change the nature of writing.
- But alphanumeric text still does a lot.
- Make sure that glitz deosn't obscure your message.
Implict, involuntary collaboration by multiple authors.
Look through the correct lens: Find the Paradigm that best helps you
- Network, not hierarchy, as paradigm
- It's not a book! it has open borders, collaboration, virtuality, reporoducibilty, adaptabilty
