Visual Design
Tips on the graphic side of course-building — color, images, icons, characters, and layout.
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Add a Human Touch to Your E-Learning With Handwritten Fonts
Look at the best-designed websites in any creative field. Many of them use handwritten fonts alongside clean typography because the combination feels…
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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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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 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…
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Build Reusable Templates for Scenario Backgrounds in Storyline
Every time you build a branched scenario in Storyline, you probably spend minutes hunting for background images. There’s a better way. Two…
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How to Create a Visual Design for Your E-Learning Scenario
Once you’ve got the 3C model down for your scenario structure, the next challenge is building the visuals. Most people get stuck…
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A Free App to Create Custom Maps for E-Learning
Finding the right map for an e-learning course is harder than it looks. Stock images tend to be too generic, and real…
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Three Ways to Guarantee Your E-Learning Fails
Learners can spot a bad course fast: no relevance, no point, no polish. Here are three habits that guarantee yours misses the…
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How to Find the Right Visual Style for Your E-Learning Course
Most e-learning developers aren’t trained graphic designers. But you probably already sense which colors belong in a safety course versus a call…