Designing hypermedia applications
Michael P. Bieber, Tomás Isakowitz · Communications of the ACM · 1995
The world has glimpsed a subset of hypermedia functionality and its potential for structuring and accessing information through the recent surge in World-Wide Web (WWW) activity.Yet, we lack guidelines and tools to design and develop hypermedia applications.This is especially true for commercial scale systems which involve frequently changing information.Without such design guidelines and tools, the ever-growing network of interlinked applications is becoming increasingly spaghetti-like and hard to maintain.s The contributions in this special issue address the concerns of authors who design specific applications and system developers who design hypermedia authoring environments.The issue discusses ideas, puts forwards guidelines, proposes tools and elaborates on a number of important hypermedia design topics.It also offers choices.By illustrating different paradigms for hypermedia, the articles and sidebars show designers options for representing information b e y o n d t h o s e t y p i c a l l y f o u n d , i n T o o l b o o k , HyperCard, and the WWW, among o t h e r s .