Interface design issues Highly Iconic representations are much like the original in that they preserve elements and relationships in what is represented. Graphics are more iconic than text. Pictures are more iconic than graphics. Motion video, being a representation very much like the original, is more iconic than text, graphics or pictures. The use of movement in interface design to describe and present research material is valuable because it enables visualisations beyond a mimicking of textual categorisation, and allows continuous presentation of relationships at a visual level.
Interactive scenarios contribute to the clarifying the relationship between bits of information.
Where multimedia is presented on the Internet, and control of visual design may be limited, almost-boring simplicity is easier to handle when frame size, scrolling of windows, variations in versions of browsers and clashing elements of design make one long for a single page with invisible navigation. This is my reactionary, heart-felt experience of interactive interfaces as a sort of designer. The use of Expert Systems may bypass the apparent need for transparent sequences. In practice however, the process of putting together an interface can be a useful and incidental means of carrying out analysis, as the structure of links and overview requires the constructor to actively clarify information in terms of relationships, while making the construction. I was delighted to find multimedia provided a use for material that I had gathered as physical analogue and digital information that somehow previously did not seem to have a niche, although I felt the material was related.