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The first part of this chapter discusses the lessons that have been learned by the author during her involvement with a number of academic and commercial hypertext projects. This experience has been gained through conducting controlled reader studies, where inadequacies of the final document interface can be found, and through observations of authors trying to create material in the new medium and not being aware of sources of applicable design knowledge. This part concentrates on what needs to be considered during the different stages of design and assumes that the author is following some form of structured design process, such as that described in (Garzotto et al. 1994). The second part motivates and describes a structured approach to authoring hypermedia. While the editing environment described does not explicitly support the requirements discussed in the first part, the author can more easily experiment with and change both the structure and layout of the presentation until s/he is satisfied. A final section looks to further possible improvements in simplifying hypermedia authoring.
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Hardman, L. (1995). Experiences in Authoring Hypermedia: Creating Better Presentations. In: Schuler, W., Hannemann, J., Streitz, N. (eds) Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia. Research Reports ESPRIT, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45743-2_3
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