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Article: Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond.
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- Technical Communication
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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According to Jakob Nielsen, the purpose of Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond is to provide an overview of a multitude of multimedia and hypertext systems so that readers can make informed decisions about whether hypertext meets their authoring needs and which hypertext system would best meet their requirements. The book delivers much more than this but also much less than we have come to expect from Nielsen, a well-known leader in user interface design and usability for the Internet.
Multimedia and Hypertext is a new edition of Nielsen's 1990 Hypertext and Hypermedia, which was based on tutorial notes from a class he taught on hypertext in the late ...