Multimedia Principales

Multimedia Design Principles

Multimedia design come to put an end for the boring of power point and slides of the lectures of the teachers when they trying to explain the material of what they want  to give to the students .Hence , Richard Mayer tried to give us more attention to our material and how to use them to develop impactful content . Mayer makes a set of principles to make the multimedia  easier , more benefit , interesting, knowledge retention and avoid the boring on-screen text death  ; the multimedia principles  teaches us to use pictures to support learning in addition to audio and effect  sound .with those multimedia principles will show a huge effect to our lectures to them easy to understand , much fun and the most important thing is easy to remember …

These are the PRINCIPLES of Multimedia Design for Mayer :

• Coherence Principals:

the information must be relevant to the subject .This will support the e-learning and maximize learning.

• Signaling principles (visuals);

Draw some arrows,  Underlining, highlights, bold words to simplified the idea helps the brain and the eye to follow what the next step and keep more focus  .

• Modalities principality,

is all about orders of the information . Narrated speaking should be related together.

• Redundancy principle,

People do better and learn more deeply from animation and narration rather than animation ,narration and text on-screen (except foreign  language  learning class) it should be in one theme .

• Spatial contiguity principle :  pictures and text needs be at the same time ; place is important .
• Temporal contiguity principle same as spatial but it’s about animation. It’s about time. It should be at the same time.
• Segmenting principle, divide information (like steps of learning)
• Pre-training principle; pre-teach: people learn more deeply from a narrated animation when they have had training in the names and characteristics of the main concept .
• Emotional Design Principal : people learn better when on-screen characters display appealing colors , shapes and human-like facial expressions.
• Personalization principle. Have informal conversation .
• Voice principle, it’s better to not use robotic voice. Human voice is more convenient  and more  effective in recall.
• Image principle, instructor image doesn’t matter to be on the image.