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100+ Free Handwritten Fonts You Can Download Now
The question I get asked often is “What font are you using?” It’s almost always asked when I’ve used a handwritten font.…
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How Subject Matter Experts Help Build Great Courses
Working with subject matter experts is one of the most challenging parts of building e-learning. The goal isn’t to capture everything they…
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The Real Reason People Complain About E-Learning
I asked a group of people to describe their training experiences. The same words kept appearing: boring, irrelevant, and a waste of…
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Why Nobody Cares How Many Slides Your Course Has
Your client wants 20 slides. Your SME insists on 50. But the learner never looks at the slide counter. The real question…
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What a Cookie Business Can Teach You About E-Learning Design
The easiest way to waste a training budget is to build a course nobody asked for. Most of us design around the…
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Borrow These Infographic Design Tricks for Your Next Course
Infographics look great because they distill mountains of information down to a few essential points, the same challenge you face every time…
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How to Design a Blended Training Program
Splitting training into e-learning modules and peer coaching sounds simple, until you get into the details. Here’s how I designed the blended…
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Designing E-Learning When You Can’t See the Blank Stares
You put information on a screen. Your learner reads it. But what they walk away understanding isn’t always what you meant. Here’s…
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How Good Graphic Design Helps Build Meaningful E-Learning
Open a random e-learning course and you’ll often find graphics that seem to have landed on screen by accident. Every visual element…
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What Great Design Teams Get Right About Building Better Courses
I read an article about how Google’s designers rethought their products, and it hit close to home. A lot of what tripped…