Multimedia design requires:

New skills

A wide range of skills

authoring tools or languages

Multimedia is limited currently because:

it is time-based and its assets must be synchronized:

screens are still primitive in both framing and resolution

typography was developed for another medium.

it is based on outmoded metaphors such as buttons and and icons

A multimedia project design is similar to a software engineering project design and includes:

1. Conceptualization
2. A Proposal
3. Hyperscripting
4. Prototyping
5. Asset Collection
6. Asset Integration and editing
7. Implementation
8. Testing
9. Publishing

Writing for the screen is quite different from writing for paper