Graphic & Visual Design
The indirect instructional aspects of imagery, text, white space, color choices, etc. that impact cognitive load, drive engagement, and influence the learner experience.
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Five More Tips for Designers to Kick Off October
There’s more to creating engaging eLearning than just writing learning objectives and knowing how to use authoring software. People appreciate and respond to a good story, an unexpected surprise, or an eLearning design that gets their attention. Here are five tips that will help you achieve those results.
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The Lack of Diversity in Stock Images Hurts Your eLearning—and What to Do About It
Most of us don’t have the luxury of dismissing stock images from our design repertoire. But lack of diversity in stock photography is part of a larger cultural problem. We need to help people think differently, and one of the biggest ways to do that is to change the visuals we’re using so they better reflect the diverse lives we live. Here’s how!
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Three Tutorials, a Case Study, and a Fun Infographic: Guild Links
Useful techniques for PowerPoint, Articulate Storyline, and Adobe Captivate, plus using scenario-based exams to better prepare tech-support and help-desk teams, and a fun little infographic on work life.
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Book Review: Visual Design Solutions, by Connie Malamed
Connie Malamed has authored a new companion to her earlier book, Visual Language for Designers. This new book will give you all you need to create visuals for your eLearning with “production values” that will set it apart, head and shoulders above the rest. Learn (some would say “steal”) from the best. This book is that best.
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New Content Links from The eLearning Guild (August 18, 2015)
New links to great content from The eLearning Guild, including a live event (requires registration). Other links to three videos: building your organization’s mobile strategy, tips for dealing with text shrink, and a DemoFest presentation on sales-staff training.
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Nuts and Bolts: Art: Maximizing Your Resources
Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation where we can either not do something at all, or we can figure out how to do it with no money. Many times this happens when it comes to finding art for our eLearning productions. Here are some tricks that will help you make the most of what you’ve got—for no money!
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Ten Graphic Design Tips for eLearning
If content is king in eLearning, graphic design provides the royal raiment that engages the learner’s attention and emotion. Dress (your content) to impress (the learners)! Here are 10 tips, 20 resources, and some do’s and don’ts that will make learning enjoyable (and fun to create)!
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Six Instructional Design Tips for Learner Engagement
An engaging learner experience supports greater returns on investment through transformative learning. Online learning will extend your budget and reach as well as change behavior and performance with a highly visual interactive multimedia experience. The good news: With these tips you can spice up your training, engage your learners, win over stakeholders, and not break the budget.
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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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Mobile, Tablet, and Laptop: Dazzling Visual Effects with jQuery
If you develop any type of learning content that is displayed in a mobile or traditional web browser, you should know about jQuery, a JavaScript library that is very powerful and also extremely easy to use. In this tutorial you’ll get a close look at a couple of the effects you can produce with just a little jQuery in your HTML code.