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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61 Tips for Making Learning Memorable with Graphics and Visual Design
Good graphics and visual design can make content both more understandable and more easily remembered. This eBook offers 61 tips to enhance and support your content and instructional designs.
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The Knowledge Management Genius of Amazon.com
How does Amazon.com so effortlessly connect “zillions” of people with “zigabytes” of product information? The answer, in part, is through using advanced knowledge-management (KM) techniques. In the eLearning field, we can learn a lot from how Amazon approaches the relationship between customers and information.
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Learner Engagement: Tips for Responsive Design
As the learning ecosystem expands, designers of technology-enabled learning must support delivery across a wide range of devices, operating systems, browsers, screen sizes, and resolutions. The key to this complex work is responsive design. Here is a collection of expert tips to help you make engaging experiences for your learners!
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Making mLearning Usable: How We Use Mobile Devices
In this report, Steven Hoober, with Patti Shank, analyzes the results of studies of how people hold, touch, and use the various tablet sizes, and explores the implications for the design of mobile interfaces and mLearning.
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Book Review: Interface Design for Learning, by Dorian Peters
In Interface Design for Learning, Dorian Peters weaves together her work as a designer and specialist in user experience to give readers dozens of evidence-based strategies for designing effective learning experiences. Anyone tasked with creating learning interfaces, or curious about how design affects learning, should consider Peters’s book a must-have reference.
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158 Tips on mLearning: From Planning to Implementation
Last year, the big question was “Should we do mLearning?” This year, the question is “How should we do mLearning?” This eBook provides 158 tips to help you every step of the way.
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Accessible Online Courses: Techniques and Tips
Online courses open up a wealth of possibilities for many learners. Ensuring the accessibility of courses, including accessibility for users with physical or sensory challenges, takes advantage of eLearning’s flexibility and maximizes the potential of the learning experience. Here are five tips that show you how to remove barriers from your content.
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Designing mLearning UIs with Blueprint
One of the challenges in mobile learning application development is breaking away from the default interfaces that we have used for years in desktop eLearning. Prototyping tools can assist designers in figuring out what really works on a mobile device. Read in this article about one such tool and the way the author uses it!
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Customize Lectora’s Table of Contents with Visited-page and Chapter Icons
In Lectora-created eLearning content, users find it very helpful to have a table of contents, and to be able to identify which pages they have visited. This can involve a lot of work for the developer. However, it is possible to create a reusable solution so that much of the work only needs to be done once. Here’s a step-by-step guide to setting up the JavaScript and HTML to do the job.
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Development Tips: Funky, Fun HTML5 Forms
Forms are a critical factor in user interaction design, yet they often fail to provide good data (or even to provide data at all). HTML5 offers new ways to deal with the problems of obtaining clean data. Here is an introduction to the new data types that you can put to work today.