CD-ROM Based Multimedia Development

MPT 1293 : CD-ROM Based Multimedia Development

Week 7

Multimedia use in interface implementation for telematic-based learning

Design a interface for a courseware is an extremely critical. Screen design must have a good graphic design, user-friendliness and appropriateness to the learning content. To have more interaction with the user, multimedia elements is integrate to such as text, graphic, sound, animation and video. There are three factor that should be implement in interface which is screen development, interaction providing and navigation organisation. Nowadays, the interface design was eliminating the need for written instructions. The designer replace the instructions to icon or good screen design when planning a user interface.

To design a good interface, all the screen should have the same elements or the same layout at the same location. Besides that, a well interface design also need to have enough space for the content and the most important is the interface should have a clear navigation for the user so they would not feel lost when using courseware.

The creativity use colour to highlight the selection of the user will give a navigate to user that which content there are viewing. By included extra guidance such as interactive maps will show the level and sub-level of the learning material structure. It also allow users to change location by referring to the map and clicking on the area they wish to visit.

There are some factor will effect the users to visit the courseware. One of the factor is the courseware included too much dynamic media. If a interface have heavy laden with animation and video, it will slow down the smoothness when users using the courseware.

CD-ROM Based Multimedia Development

MPT 1293 : CD-ROM Based Multimedia Development

Week 6

This week we are learn about visual design. Visual design also called presentation design or interface design. Presentation design or interface design is the way that how we manage our interface by using graphic, text or other elements and present to other people. We also learn about how to design the layout so the user can navigated to the page that they need to visit. We need to plan what the theme or colours is suitable for the courseware content in our courseware. Different layout or picture can show that what is our general content and who is our target user. 

Below had show that the example of presentation design that the layout is organize to present the navigation to the content in a courseware. Besides that, the design also show that is a education courseware because it have some module.

CD-ROM Based Multimedia Development

MPT 1293 : CD-ROM Based Multimedia Development

Week 5

What is interaction Design?

Interaction Design is "about shaping digital things for people's use". Alternately defined as "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services. Like many other design fields interaction design also has an interest in form but its main focus is on behavior. What clearly marks interaction design as a design field as opposed to a science or engineering field is that it is synthesis and imagining things as they might be, more so than focusing on how things are.