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March 16 – 18, 2016 Orlando, FL

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LS503 A Crash Course in Visual Design

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Thursday, March 17

Instructional Design

International North

Did you know that the visual design of eLearning, slides, and other instructional materials have a big impact on learner success? Well-designed materials can motivate learners, improve comprehension, and assist retention.

In this session, you will learn the power principles that will have the biggest impact on your designs. You’ll look into ways that you can apply each principle for maximum success. The goal is to quickly increase your visual design skills as much as possible in one hour. You'll be surprised at how much you can improve. You don’t need to draw well to improve your visual design skills; you need to learn the foundation principles and apply them.

In this session, you will learn:

  • Why aesthetics are important to learning
  • How to work with shapes, images, and fonts to communicate the right message to your audience
  • Tips for laying out a slide or screen so that your designs look professional
  • To ensure learners quickly see what is most important
  • How to create a unified look that is attractive and pleasing

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
N/A

Connie Malamed

Founder and Mentor

Mastering Instructional Design

Connie Malamed helps people learn and build instructional design skills at Mastering Instructional Design. She is a consultant, author and speaker in the fields of online learning and visual communication. Connie is the author of Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers. She also publishes The eLearning Coach website and podcast. She was honored with the Guild Master award in 2018 for contributions to the learning technologies industry.

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