Design & Development Tools
Design and Development tools aid in activities such as creating assets, editing, hosting, communicating, documenting and monitoring the people and processes used throughout.
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Beyond Content: Designing Learning for Performance, Inclusion & Impact
Go Beyond Content in Learning Design Learning teams are being asked to do more than ever. You’re also navigating pressure to streamline processes, connect learning to business needs, support skill development, and demonstrate impact. So, what should effective learning design prioritize? Our eBook, Beyond Content: Designing Learning for Performance, Inclusion & Impact, explores three enduring principles that can help guide the work: Whether you’re designing learning experiences or leading a learning team, use this eBook to reflect on the principles shaping your work, and where you may want to take a closer look.
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Creating Learning That Works: A Conversation with Melissa Milloway
Melissa Milloway, Senior Learning Experience Designer at Microsoft, has become one of the learning industry’s most recognizable voices by sharing practical ideas that help instructional designers create better learning experiences. But long before building an online following or becoming known for her expertise with tools like Articulate Storyline and Rise, she found herself drawn to a field that combined technology, creativity, and a passion for helping people learn. Ahead of DevLearn 2026, we caught up with Melissa to talk about her path into learning and development, why she believes sharing your work makes the entire community stronger, what attendees can expect from the new Storyline & Rise…
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AI & Accessibility: 5 Practical Ways to Use LLMs to Support Inclusive Learning
At its core, this work is about making learning equitable. Learning experiences should be accessible to all individuals, regardless of ability or disability.
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AI-Native Course Authoring, Not Bolted On
You’ve tried AI for course development. The drafts came back generic, the interactions felt scripted, and somewhere along the way you wondered whether you were saving time or making new work for yourself. That’s the gap Mindsmith was built to close. As the first AI-Native eLearning authoring platform, our agent isn’t a wrapper around a general-purpose model. It’s built on instructional design principles, with structure, interaction, and visual craft as first-class concerns. In this live session, Ethan will start with raw source material like SME notes, a slide deck, or a PDF, and build a finished, interactive, instructionally sound course…
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Check Your Mic Before You Wreck Your Project
If you can’t choose the perfect mic, then learn about the characteristics of the mic(s) you do have and work with it/them.
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What’s Next for Learning? The Trends DevLearn Attendees See Emerging
The future of learning took shape in a big way throughout 2025, and DevLearn attendees were already spotting the trends transforming the industry while with us in Las Vegas. From the rapid rise of AI and AI-native platforms to growing conversations around accessibility, localization, immersive learning, and creative media design, these emerging priorities are reshaping how organizations create and deliver learning experiences. At DevLearn 2026, attendees will have the opportunity to explore these trends in greater depth through practical sessions, workshops, demos, and discussions focused on what’s next for workplace learning. AI is everywhere AI was by far the biggest trend attendees identified in 2025. As noted by attendees, organizations are…
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Architecting What’s Next: How L&D Can Lead in the Age of AI
As AI reshapes how we work, learning has never been more essential to staying relevant — and L&D professionals are at the heart of it. In this keynote, Yulia Barnakova, Accenture’s AI Innovation and Learning Advisor, explores how L&D can turn AI disruption into new opportunities for learning. From AI coaches and knowledge assistants to synthetic learners, the same technologies reshaping work are now enabling new ways to build skills and enhance performance. With practical insights and dynamic, AI-enhanced storytelling, Yulia offers a bold, energizing vision for how the learning profession can lead with greater impact and help shape a…
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DevLearn 2026 Program Is Live: Explore What’s New
The DevLearn 2026 program is officially live—bringing with it an expanded, forward-thinking lineup designed to help learning professionals reimagine their learning strategies and drive real impact across their organizations. As North America’s largest learning technologies event, DevLearn continues to bring 200+ sessions, three powerful keynotes, and unmatched opportunities for hands-on learning and connection. But this year, the program features several exciting updates that reflect where the industry is heading and what professionals need right now. New track topics: expanding the learning landscape DevLearn 2026 introduces new track topics that reflect the growing scope of learning and development: These new additions join DevLearn’s comprehensive lineup of topic areas, all designed to help you stay ahead of change,…
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6 Tips for Easily Incorporating Games in Your Learning
Using game elements in learning helps employees better retain and apply what they learned by keeping them actively engaged in the training process. But how do you practically use game design to actively support long-term retention and real-world applications? To help you incorporate game elements into your learning, we’ve asked our Game-Based Learning Online Conference speakers to share their best tips: Found these tips helpful? To get more wisdom from these experienced pros, attend the Game-Based Learning Online Conference on June 10 & 11.
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Designing Learning at the Speed of Change: The EchoInk Authoring Workflow
Learning content often becomes outdated before it is even published. EchoInk, powered by Echo360, introduces an AI-enabled authoring workflow that helps teams rapidly create, update, and publish learning while maintaining a single source of truth for critical business content such as SOPs and operating manuals. By turning existing documentation into trackable learning and enabling AI-powered answers through AskEcho, organizations can deliver accurate knowledge to employees directly in the flow of work.