Book Review- Design for New Media

Book Title: Design for New Media
-- Interaction design for multimedia and the web
Author: Lon Barfield

When I shot a glance at this book, I was immediately attracted by its cover and title. This book points out a unified approach which provides many basic skills and principles for new media design to let designers to understand how to build a nice media.

There are four parts in this book; at first, the author discusses the current state of new media design and interaction design. The second section introduces the elements in media design, including sound, color, video, and animation; besides, it mentions how to arrange these elements in the new media or the web to make users to use them well. The third part presents the process of interaction design and uses GAS (Goal, Audience, and Scope) analysis to understand the user model. Finally, the book concludes with some practical methods for media design. As far as I am concerned, this book certainly brings a lot of knowledge in new media design. Because I am a novice to the world of web design, this book has led me to enter the web design world.