Instructional Design is dead — long live Learning Experience Design!

The most familiar UI symbols — where do they come from?

PART 1 — MEDIA CONTROLS

As modern consumers, we interact with media controls more often that we’d dare to admit: YouTube, iTunes, Netflix, mobile devices, Google search, your car’s touchscreen display or even…

Metaphor your troubles?

A simile is like an analogy, metaphorically speaking.

Enabling your people starts with the end in mind.

Purpose of induction. An effective induction ensures that new staff can quickly learn the [people], policies, processes and practices of an organisation.

Why use Motion Graphics for Online Learning?

Vision is said to be the strongest of all human senses. Our brains are largely…

How to get the most out of storyboarding.

Storytelling is an important skill in our craft.

We are often creating storyboards to communicate all sorts of things from eLearning module content to the visuals of an explainer video. Sometimes it’s even broader than that, and we…

Illustration in learning: Drawing maximum engagement

The most familiar UI symbols — where do they come from? Part 2 : Communication

We’re now beyond the point at which many symbols within technology have any physical meaning. Typewriters, telephones and even envelopes are disappearing from common sight yet have informed those…

Campaign-based learning: because growth takes time

Great organisational learning tackles the big issues with many small battles.