Designing with a grid adds structure and organization to the visual design of your eLearning and slides. It helps you avoid a haphazard look.
Most Recent Articles
ELC 084: How to Develop Leadership Skills for Any Role in L&D
David Kelly explains why developing leadership skills in L&D is important for people at every level of an organization and in any role.
Benefits of Using Questions in Elearning Design
A question-based approach to elearning has some benefits over the expository approach. Questions create an active learning experience and arouse curiosity.
Stealing From Product Design
For inspiration and innovation, here are seven strategies from product design that you can use for learning design.
Six Strategies You May Not Be Using To Reduce Cognitive Load
When learners experience high cognitive load, they may give up or fail to comprehend. Here are six strategies to reduce cognitive load.
ELC 083: Quality Management: It’s More Than Missing Commas
Hadiya Nuriddin explains how to start or improve a quality management program in your organization.
Books to Help You Work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
If you have problems working with subject matter experts, see these books for working with SMEs that can help things go more smoothly.
Using Contrast to Improve Visual Accessibility in eLearning
Learn how to improve the visual accessibility of your eLearning by improving the contrast in your visual design.
When Instructional Designers Can’t Talk to the Target Audience
Don’t give up hope if you can’t talk to the target audience. There are still many ways to research and understand them.
Ideas For Designing Nonlinear eLearning
Do you default to a linear structure when designing eLearning? Nonlinear eLearning might be the best choice for your audience and content.
Podcasts
ELC 082: A Blueprint for AI Literacy in Learning and Development
If you’re feeling lost regarding what you need to learn about AI, this AI literacy framework maps out the areas of knowledge and skills.
ELC 081: Focusing On Behavior Change in Instructional Design
If you don’t have the right strategy or tool to solve a problem, consider looking at ways to affect behavior change. In this episode, Julie Dirksen explains how to apply a behavior change model to instructional design.
ELC 080: Use Data and Analytics to Level Up Your Instructional Design
Using data and analytics for instructional design may seem difficult. But Megan Torrance explains it in simple terms. Listen in to level up your ID skills.
ELC 079: The Updated Accidental Instructional Designer
The Accidental Instructional Designer has a second edition! Author Cammy Bean provides the big picture view of the learning and development industry.
ELC 078: How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 2
Usability of learning designs should include ease of use as well as instructional effectiveness. In this episode, we discuss many aspects of usability.
ELC 077: How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 1
In this episode, two researchers discuss how LXD adopts and adapts methods to improve the usability and outcomes of learning design.
ELC 076: How to Get Started with Data-Driven Learning Design
What about gathering audience data before you start to design? Lori Niles-Hofmann explains how.
ELC 075 Finding a Career Path in Instructional Design
In this solo episode, I talk about the diversity of career paths in instructional design for people who are trying to break into the field.
ELC 074: Creating Effective Surveys for Instructional Design
When you create surveys for instructional design do you use a process that will get the most accurate results? In this episode, I explore survey design with forms specialist, Caroline Jarrett.
ELC 073: Using The Jobs To Be Done Framework In Learning Design
Jobs To Be Done can help you address the functional, emotional and social aspects of learning.