I have to say, I’m a sucker for a beautiful font. And there are plenty of them out there. But it’s often hard to find one that hits the sweet spot. In my case, something new, but old. Modern, yet classic. Cutting edge, yet comfortably familiar. Something that catches [...]

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Like many other tech nerds, I awaited Google’s announcement of its first Android-based device yesterday with bated breath. Alas, like many other tech nerds, I was ultimately disappointed with what I saw.
Without a doubt, the mobile device user has been abused for years by poorly-designed and implemented operating systems that seemed to delight in [...]

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Anyone who has ever taken an eLearning course or watched a PowerPoint presentation (i.e. all of us) knows that the effective use of color is not a common human ability. Based on countless cans of unused interior house paint I have chosen with much deliberation, only to become horrified once I actually put the [...]

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The debate rages whether Apple’s iPhone is as revolutionary a device as Apple claims it to be - with certain feature omissions (copy/paste and MMS being the two most-often mentioned) providing plenty of fuel for criticism.
Less open to debate is the point that the iPhone offers what is probably the most beautiful user interface on [...]

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I strongly believe that good presentation design and understanding good eLearning design are two sides of the same coin. If you’re horrible at one, you’ll probably fail at the other. And if you have a firm grasp on one, you’ll probably excel at the other. Sure, there are some technical differences between [...]

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I often get requests for visual timelines in eLearning courses. Typically I’ll try to cobble something together using PowerPoint’s charting or drawing tools (shudder). Sometimes I’ll create the timeline in Apple’s Keynote (much nicer charting tools) and bring the graphic into PowerPoint (since I do most of my development work in Articulate Presenter). [...]

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CollegeHumor portrays fonts as people in this hilarious (for the visual design lovers out there) spoof, Font Conference.
As dedicated supporters of the eQuixotic cause, you are by now familiar with the historical impact of font design, including the subtle complexities of typography, and how to find appealing fonts for your eLearning projects.
I plead with you [...]

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This may be old news to some of you, but I had never seen it before it was presented at a training conference I attended last week. Not only is the message thought-provoking, but the visual design is extremely compelling. This is nothing more than a PowerPoint-like presentation set to music. Yet [...]

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I don’t tend to deviate from the topic of eLearning on this blog, but I’ll make an exception today. I just returned from an internal training event, which featured the requisite (and often dreaded, at least for me) keynote speaker. Now, I’ve seen a lot of keynote speakers in my day, most of [...]

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As eLearning developers, most of us are not graphic designers by trade or by training. Many of us have academic or corporate backgrounds. We are, to put it bluntly, visual design noobs. Hacks. Poseurs. We think white socks are perfectly fine with black trousers. And we couldn’t tell the [...]

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