Posts by Hugh Dubberly

Feb 1, 1990

Muddy Media, or the Myth of the Intuitive

*Originally published in User Interface Design Workbook, Multimedia Computing Corporation* *Hypermedia, sometimes called interactive multimedia, offers one of the greatest promises for computing. It brings together numbers, text, drawings, photographs, animation, video, and sound, presenting them in an interactive and therefore nonlinear format.* *Such a rich, new medium almost invites confusion. With no tradition to […]

Jan 1, 1990

An Introduction to Hypermedia and the Implications of Technology on Graphic Design Education

*Originally published by Graphic Design Education Association (GDEA), Annual National Symposia* **Abstract:** *Computers are a new medium—not merely tools. They combine many forms of information and offer new ways of organizing information. Designing for computers—using computers as a medium— can open up business and creative opportunities. Design education should recognize the opportunities, embrace the use […]

Oct 1, 1989

Hypertext: The Future of Writing and Designing with Computers

*Originally published in **AIGA Journal of Graphic Design** Volume 6, Number 4, 1989.* Imagine an interactive catalog in which you can point at a picture and expand it into a video demonstration, or imagine a history of design with references to the histories of art, architecture, and music. This new medium will be like books, […]

Jan 1, 1988

The Future: New Ways of Solving Problems

*Originally published in **CG: The Magazine for Compugraphic Customers**, 1988.* **How would you define the terms “visual communication” and “computer graphics”?** Everybody is involved in visual communication. When you start to talk about people using technology to communicate visually, most of what we use the computer for today is for simulating paper. We are seeing […]