Visuals have the potential to add meaning to a learning experience because the human brain devotes more resources to processing visual information than to any other sense. Yet it is often difficult to … [Read more...]
6 Alternatives To Bullet Points – Updated
Get Rid Of Those Text Heavy Slides
Bullet points make a sequence of important ideas easy to read. When those near-perfect little circles are vertically aligned, readers can quickly process the text. Yet too many bullet points in an … [Read more...]
8 Tips to Prepare Audio Scripts for Recording
Writing and Formatting Voiceover Scripts
What does it take to have a smooth and efficient audio recording experience? It usually means putting in lots of time and effort into perfecting the audio script for voiceovers. This often means you … [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 everyone. … [Read more...]
How Visual Clarity Affects Learning
Research on Processing Fluency
How do you react when you see a very complex diagram or a screen of dense text? Are you motivated to work through it? Or do you groan and turn away if it becomes too difficult? Complex or dense … [Read more...]
10 Lesser Known Free Or Inexpensive Stock Photo Sites
With 6 More Sites from Readers
Many of us must work on projects with small budgets that require free resources. Fortunately, free or cheap stock photo sites can save the day. In the last several years, the quality of free stock has … [Read more...]
Planning A Training Video Production
How to Produce Training Videos
Did you ever end up on a project that required video and somehow you became the default expert? That's what happened to me early in my career. At first, it was a bit unnerving. But like any hard-core … [Read more...]
How to Unstock Stock Photos for eLearning and Slides
Most people know that stock photos for eLearning and slides are often substandard. When you need photos of people performing various jobs, stock photo collections seem flooded with images of people … [Read more...]
Creating Interactive Content With H5P
If you're looking for a way to make web content interactive, check out H5P. It is a user-friendly application that makes it easy for LX designers, writers, presenters and publishers to deliver … [Read more...]
21 Reasons Why Stock Photo Sites Make Me Cry
The Problems with Stock Photo Sites
Do you get frustrated with the laughable photos you find when doing photo research? Then you've noticed there are many problems with stock photo sites. Typically, the photos are shot for advertising … [Read more...]
The Power Of Visual Grouping
In the very early stages of vision—before we're really conscious of it—our perceptual processes are humming away, attempting to organize the sensory data from vision into something that is meaningful. … [Read more...]
The Visual Design of Checklists
Job Aid Design for Performance Support
In a previous article, I wrote about the benefits of using checklists for performance support. But what about the visual design of a checklist that fits your needs? Consider that the visual design of … [Read more...]