Designing For Interactive Media

At the end of the Nineties I got involved in an exciting project, working forGeorge Soros ‘s Open Society Institute. The idea was to promote electronic publishing and the web in the countries that had been part of the Soviet sphere of influence. Of course, once we got started we found that the idea didn’t need that much promotion and that there were plenty of very competent people doing it already. But despite that I think that they welcomed the contact with people from the West and the slightly different perspective that we brought with us. I worked with people from Romania, Macedonia and Serbia and learnt a lot I’m still digesting. This piece was from the last event I attended in Lithuania – a text to accompany a lecture. I include it here, because one of the reasons I have been reluctant to set up my own web site was, because having been pontificating about the subject for years, I was sure that hubris was hovering and that my site would display at least some of the sins I had been attacking. I guess we’ll see whether that’s true.
Designing For Interactive Media