Overview

• Audience: Persons interested in improving focus at home.

• Responsibilities: Instructional Design, eLearning Development, Visual Design, Storyboarding, and Prototyping

• Tools Used: Articulate Storyline

This portfolio piece is a quick project to demonstrate the power of layers within storyline and how they can be leveraged to allow for multiple iterations. Moreover this project gave me an opportunity for implementing custom buttons to gain more control over object triggers and design aesthetic. Lastly I was able to investigate how your environment can promote learning and focus in order to benefit the everyday person working remotely from home. This addresses a real-world problem many are encountering as they are permanently at home.

Design Theory

The goal of this eLearning is to promote productivity at home by increasing focus. Many research papers were consulted that support each tip. For me eLearning has to not only be aesthetically pleasing to promote engagement but it must be meaningful and research based.

Process

Research:

Scholarly and scientific journals were consulted in order to provide research based tips that would promote focus and learning retention. Resources consulted addressed both pedagogical and andragogical best practices.

Visuals and Storyboard:

Once I narrowed my research to encompass five tips. I used the images provided by StorySet.com to help inspire a clean design. The colors were chosen by implementing the psychology of color theory. Where the peach color evokes vitality, energy, playfulness, and encouragement. Navy on the other hand encourages authority and trust. The combination of both would breed trust in the topic and encourage implementation of the tips in the learners home work space.

Development:

The final project was developed in Articulate Storyline using visual assets from StorySet.com.

Results and Takeaways

Participants of the eLearning experience complimented the color scheme and enjoyed the familiarity of the characters often seen from the StorySet collections. Those with a background in information architecture enjoyed the intentional use of white space to anchor the focal texts and images.

This project was a wonderful learning experience as it gave me the motivation to take on more challenging storyline endeavors that require more triggers and layers.