Did you ever want a consistent process for a PowerPoint redesign? PowerPoint slides are often the currency exchanged between subject matter experts and instructional designers. These slides are … [Read more...]
Five Free Image Editors Worth Trying For eLearning
What is an image editor? An application for creating graphics and for manipulating and enhancing photos. The basic functionality of an image editor includes resizing, cropping, lighting adjustments, … [Read more...]
How to Improve Your Visual Design Skills
Visual Design for eLearning and Slides
As a learning professional, if you haven't focused on or studied visual design it may seem like a mysterious process. How can you ever improve when you don't understand what it entails? I teach visual … [Read more...]
How To Crop A Photo To A Circle
Transforming photographs into a circular shape can create visual interest in the boxy world of the computer display. I happened to see this effect recently on one of those poorly made local TV … [Read more...]
Two Principles of Multimedia Learning: Redundancy and Split-Attention
Integrating the multimedia assets of a course can raise a host of issues. A client may have slides of text with an out-of-sync voiceover that I need to fix. Or perhaps I must determine whether an … [Read more...]
How to Use Graphics To Improve Learning
The Picture Superiority Effect Although visuals are not always superior to words, the phenomenon known as the picture superiority effect demonstrates that graphics do improve learning in many … [Read more...]
How To Design A Quick Reference Card
A Case Study
You've probably used a quick reference card or sheet for easy access to a condensed set of information, like grammar rules, foreign language expressions, software functions and similar types of … [Read more...]
10 Reasons Why You Should Pay For Stock Photos
Stock photos and illustrations won't solve all your graphic needs but there are a lot of uses for them in online learning. Unless you always shoot your own photos, the question is whether you should … [Read more...]
How To Plan A Photo Shoot For eLearning
Organizing and managing a successful photo shoot for eLearning is more complicated than you might think. You have to organize by location, have the right props on hand, keep things moving at a steady … [Read more...]
5 Ways To Use Graphics In eLearning Scenarios
People learn through experience and one of the best ways to transmit experience is through stories. Once you've been sold on the value of storytelling and scenarios for eLearning, you need to consider … [Read more...]
How to Crop Photos for eLearning
Cropping a photograph is a powerful technique of visual design that you may be under utilizing. It's more than just making a photograph fit your space. Cropping refers to the practice of removing … [Read more...]
Six Quick Ways To Design Like A Pro
How to Use White Space in eLearning
If you're flying by the seat of your pants when it comes to graphic design, you may find that attention to visual space is a quick way to achieve a more professional look. Space is the neutral region … [Read more...]