Comments on: Helvetica: The Movie (And Why You Should See It)

By: Nidhi Gupta

Nidhi Gupta — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:23:23 +0000

eLearning designers who really need to think more like graphic designers…..

ha ha so true again……I kinda like you!

By: Nidhi Gupta

Nidhi Gupta — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:22:05 +0000

I am sure a time will come when elearning would not be as boring as it is today.

Taking a WBT course would be as exciting as watching a Steven Speilsberg movie…

You won’t be bored for a minute and would be eager to share it with your friends and colleagues. Who would say “Man I have already taken those three blockbuster WBTs this week. But since you’ve praised this one so much…..I’ve gotts to take this one too.”

Ha ha ….that time will soon come!!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:58:16 +0000

Thanks for bringing my attention to this. I’ll have to pick it up. I 100% agree with your stance that elearning designers need to think like graphic designers. After all, elearning is a form of communication, and with communication playing the role it does in today’s world, effective, efficient, clear information is important. Further, you look at product and packaging designs today versus the past, and there is an increasing focus on just the packaging of a product. Packaging can sell something, as we’ve seen from Apple’s success, that of certain clothing lines, cars, etc. Visual design helps form the language for what you want to communicate, and elearning should be no different.

Now, many times it can be hard to include a graphic design phase into an ADDIE process, but at the very least I pay a lot of attention to negative space on every slide/page/etc. Color is also important, as is the weight of text and how it’s divided and arranged.

Instructional Design is jsut another form of communication, and people like us need to be cognizant of all the aspects of how that communciation takes place.