4/10 articles

Of the three articles, I thought the “Patterns of Hypertext” article was the most interesting. It offered some different ways to use hyperlinks to navigate a website. This tied in really well to what we have been talking about with creating fictional works using a website. I haven’t really decided what I want to do for the third project, but I could see this being a really useful tool if I were to choose to create a fictional website. It is also a good insight into the creative process that authors of fictional websites go through.

Even though the article is wrong about when the Cubs last won the pennant, I thought it made a pretty good analogy between baseball and hypertext. I thought it tried a little too hard to make certain connections to baseball, and I got lost at certain spots trying to follow the analogy the author was trying to make, but for the most part it was a pretty interesting connection between two unlike things, and the analogy helped me to think about hypertext in a slightly different way.

The third article deals with the conflict between simplicity and minimalism versus sterile straight-forward design. This article was a little higher-level than some of the other articles and it was kind of tough to follow at times, but I made the connection with some of the things we have talked about in class. This also tied in to some of the themes in the first article in that it deals with interface in relation to a creative design of a website.