Design Tools to Build Visual Hierarchy in eLearning
How do you read an article in the newspaper? You start with the headline that screamed at you from the newsstand. Then you read the sub-headline, which is printed in ...
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A Place for Everything: Powerful Psychological Strategies for Use in Graphic Design
Looking at websites of some of the biggest companies in the world (think Apple and Google), you’ll see they’ve come a long way regarding web and graphic design. From the ...
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4 Ideas to Make Dry Content Interesting in eLearning
Let's be real - as eLearning developers, we know that creating eLearning courses on topics like finance, safety training, ethics, and pharmaceutical compliance can be a ...
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Design Styles You Can Adopt When Creating eLearning in 2017
New year, new designs. 2017 has some interesting design trends that can bring your eLearning game to the next level if you know how to use them. In this post, we’ll take ...
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The 6 Must-Haves for Every Good eLearning Course
A good eLearning course is like a lip-smacking, mouth-watering, finger-licking meat pie. Every cook has a different recipe, but the essential ingredients are the same—a ...
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Stop the Dropouts! 12 Ways You're Driving Online Learners Away
Are workers dropping out your eLearning courses like the proverbial ‘hot potato?’ Are they finding them hard to finish? Giving them bad reviews? Telling everyone they ...
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How to Design an eLearning Course that Resonates with Your Learners
“Are you feeling me?” Well, are you? Or, more importantly, is your audience feeling you? Understanding you? Connecting to what you’re putting out there? To get a ...
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Improve Your eLearning Design Workflow with the Pyramid Method
Product designer William Newton wrote a compelling article some time ago on the tiers of good design and the pyramid they form. But this idea can be applied to more than ...
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5 Methods to Achieve Visual Consistency in eLearning
Design resources never stop reminding us how important it is to be consistent when creating any graphic piece. We don’t argue. But as an eLearning designer, you know how ...
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing for eLearning
Have you ever read something where it seems like the material was written by someone who simply wanted to show off how smart they are? When this happens, do you find ...
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What You Need to Know About Choosing and Using Photos in Your eLearning
What is the first thing that attracts a learner to your course? In most cases, it is a photo or a graphic. No points for guessing it right!
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Seeing is Believing: Making Best Use of Your Images in eLearning
Do you buy clothes online without looking at the photographs? What sounds more exciting—reading about a seaside town or actually walking through the streets of one while ...
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