Interactivity By Design

This book is an excellent guide for marketing, communications, and other professionals who need to develop a CD-ROM, kiosk, or Web site. Amy Satran and Ray Kristof make an intelligent distinction between information design, interaction design, and presentation design, discussing such issues as audience research, resource planning, image maps, navigation, storyboard and prototype production, and final output. The presentation design section is key, providing non-designers with a primer on working with resolution and color within the constraints of Web and CD delivery. There is also instruction on devising coherent and consistent style and layout. Get this book if you need to learn what's going on with new media quickly.