So, still need a gift for the design geek on your holiday shopping list?* I’ve mentioned Stephen Anderson before (I’m a big ol’ fan), but I particularly love his Mental Notes cards, which cover dozens of psychology principles that impact how we design. Need to jump start your design process?…
Just had this quick interchange with Patti Shank on twitter: This is a totally fair comment on Patti’s part — you can’t force someone to be motivated (and undoubtedly some of our disagreement stems from semantics – not that THAT ever happens on twitter). A lot of the conversation around…
So, as an instructional designer, part of my job is to make things clear and easy to understand, right? Well, it turns out that’s not necessarily the best option. Cathy Moore just put up a blog post that has her checklist for evaluating your own e-Learning design. You rate where…
Design inspiration can sometimes be in short supply in Instructional Design, so it can be really helpful to get inspiration from other fields (lots more to say about the shortage of design in ID, but that’s a rant for another day). I’ve already waxed rhapsodic about being inspired by game…
When I initially got interested in neuroscience and cognitive psychology (4-5 years ago), I was poking around the interwebs, finding articles and whatnot. Some useful, some not, but pretty much all secondary sources. And, let’s face it, primary sources were beyond me — at the time I could no more…