Sometimes an obvious concept takes on a deeper meaning when you see it from a new perspective. For me, talent stacking was one of those ideas. We all know that being multi-skilled increases your … [Read more...]
Stealing From Product Design
Seven Principles for Innovating
Like all designers these days, learning experience designers are under pressure. We must find the most effective ways to meet the needs of a target audience, improve workplace performance and measure … [Read more...]
Using A Comic Book Style For Learning
The Value of Instructional Comics
I thought it was time to republish this conversation with the author of See What I Mean. Depending on the audience, content and context, low fidelity graphics—like simple line drawings—can be more … [Read more...]
ELC 074: Creating Effective Surveys for Instructional Design
A Conversation with Caroline Jarrett
When you create surveys for instructional design, such as for an audience analysis or evaluation, what process do you use? Are you confident that you'll get accurate results? There’s a large body of … [Read more...]
20 Things To Remember About Forgetting
What Causes Us To Forget
Even though we use it all day and night, we are usually not aware of our memory's processes until they fail. Yet remembering and forgetting are crucial aspects of learning. In learning design, it's … [Read more...]
Are Your Online Tests Valid?
How to Improve Test Validity
You can't make it through a year of designing eLearning without having to write test or assessment questions. If you don't have formal training in this area you may not be familiar with test validity. … [Read more...]
ELC 073: Using The Jobs To Be Done Framework In Learning Design
A Conversation with Ger Driesen
As a group, learning designers have been trying to break out of the order-taker role for a long time. Adopting the Jobs To Be Done framework may be one way you can help clients change their … [Read more...]
How To Write A Visual Style Guide for eLearning
The most efficient way to achieve consistency in the visual design of eLearning and presentation slides is to create a visual style guide. A style guide provides one graphical standard for the people … [Read more...]
How to Write Instructional Design Case Studies for Your Portfolio
One aspect of a portfolio that can make yours stand out is to provide the proper context for every work sample. You can achieve this by adding instructional design case studies to your portfolio. Case … [Read more...]
How To Be More Creative At Work
For Learning Experience Designers
If you continuously come up with compelling and novel ideas at a moment's notice, you won't need to read this article. But for the rest of us, there are times when it's difficult to be creative on … [Read more...]
10 Books Of Visual Ideas (from 2006 to 2012)
Explanatory, Information and Data Visualization Graphics
When the importance of visualization became popularized, an explosion of books were published for those who were hungry to understand and appreciate this graphic format. It was an obvious win for … [Read more...]
ELC 072: The Wonderful World of No Code Tools
A conversation with Mike Taylor and Mathias Vermeulen
In this episode, we’re exploring the wonderful world of no code tools. These are powerful apps that you can use to automate work and life tasks and to build apps and websites without programming … [Read more...]