UX & UI
User Interface (UI) addresses the look and feel of an elearning solution. User Experience (UX) focuses on how users interact with and navigate an eLearning solution.
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Tips and Tricks to Make your Visual Design Elements Sparkle
Do we really want to make the elements of our visual design sparkle? Probably not, but there are lots of ways to ensure your design has impact. When the visual design of your project is properly executed, the information you are trying to convey is more easily understood and remembered. Utilizing design principles when placing and spacing illustrations, typography, and images, as well as when choosing colors and fonts, are all key in ensuring your project is user-friendly, visually appealing, and delivers impactful training. Join Tracy Parish as she shares some key visual design principles to apply to any project.…
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Steps for Successfully Rolling Out New Technology
Download this checklist and see a comprehensive list of what you should consider to successfully roll out new technology.
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Moving from Content-centric to Learner-centric Design
In today’s ever-disruptive world and dizzying array of training requests, meeting deadlines and delighting stakeholders seem to be top priority! Authoring tools and technologies are proliferating rapidly and so is the increasing demand for sizzle and wowing training deliverables, developed with minimal budgets and time constraints. Learning programs are most often ‘one and done’ or ‘one size fits all’ solutions and learning impact is often unclear or doesn’t tie back to the learner’s performance. As L&D professionals, how can we shift our design strategies and start creating unique experiences with the learner at the focal point? How can we ensure…
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New Checklist: Choosing an Authoring Tool
Download this checklist and get a thorough guide on how to choose an authoring tool and what questions you should ask of tool vendors.
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Choosing an Authoring Tool: A Checklist
Download this checklist and get a thorough guide on how to choose an authoring tool and know what questions you should ask of tool vendors.
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Countdown to DevLearn: A Practical Guide to LMS APIs: Designing a Learning Experience
This the first of three exclusive DevLearn sessions you won’t find on theDevLearn program this fall. This will give you a taste of what you’ll see at DevLearn! The learning experience begins and ends at the platform. Many LMS providers offer access to APIs, but many people don’t know what APIs are or what to do with them. So instead they go with the default interface, resulting in missed opportunities to connect with their learners effectively. What if organizations could completely control the learner experience in a perfectly branded environment? In this session, you’ll learn:
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AR/MR/VR: You Could … But Should You?
Augmented reality. Mixed reality. Virtual reality. We can come up with countless reasons—ranging from case studies to research and Gartner hype cycles—that these are much more than mere fads. Holding equal, if not greater importance, would be the need to first ask ourselves if a given learning initiative can, and should, be supplemented by AR/MR/VR. Is there a clear learning need, or are we succumbing to Shiny Object Syndrome? Are we electing to use these technologies to fill an existing gap no other approach can fill, or are we mistakenly making major revisions solely for the sake of adding a…
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A Future Look at Visual Design Trends
The influence that visual design has on our emotions may be stronger than you think. Strategic design techniques grab our attention to buy this, watch that, click here, subscribe there, etc. Recognizing and adopting these visual design techniques into our eLearning and instructional designs can have a similar positive impact on our learners and the experiences we create for them. In this session, we’ll:
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24 Things Learning Professionals Should Know About Visual Design
This checklist presents key design principles categorized into three components—graphic space, visuals, and typography—to ensure your design decisions enhance rather than detract from learning.
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In Real Life: Happy Anniversary, PowerPoint!?!?
PowerPoint is just a tool. It’s as good or bad as we make it. Unfortunately, lots of people make it really bad.