Guidelines for multimedia design and development

The purpose of this article has been to provide some guidelines and recommend tools to be used at different stages of the multimedia design and development process. It argues that the flexibility of present design tools means that they should not be considered as contributing solely to the building of the final multimedia product at the end of the development process, instead they can contribute very effectively at all stages of that process. This article has shown that the tools can, in fact, contribute to the solution of day-to-day problems, speeding development times and cutting costs as well as making design and development tasks more interesting and less burdensome.