I am a Graphic designer and a lot of my business is designing presentations for all kinds of professionals lately I have been designing more for Facilitators and e-learning modules. No one has asked me to use Articulate but I was wondering if I purchase the software will it pay for itself? Do you ask graphic designers for help and purchase these types of services from Graphic Designers? Would this be a good business decision? Just curious.
I feel like you're crossing the bridge between graphic design and instructional design.
To best extract the value out of Articulate Storyline, you really do need to be a learning professional with design skills..... i.e. Instructional Designer.
Understanding how people learn, how to engage, motivate, reward, retain etc. all that stuff and then applying all that to your design work.
If you either learn that stuff yourself, or work closely with other learning & development professionals, then you'll get the best from an authoring tool like Articulate Storyline.
I feel like you're crossing the bridge between graphic design and instructional design.
To best extract the value out of Articulate Storyline, you really do need to be a learning professional with design skills..... i.e. Instructional Designer.
Understanding how people learn, how to engage, motivate, reward, retain etc. all that stuff and then applying all that to your design work.
If you either learn that stuff yourself, or work closely with other learning & development professionals, then you'll get the best from an authoring tool like Articulate Storyline.
Just my opinion, others are available :)
Thank you, I am not interested in Instructional Design as far as building the learning experiences and feel unqualified for that side of the coin but I have done UIUX and animation projects for many so I feel my skills need to stay on the visual side, and let the more experienced folks do their thing. I just wanted to understand if these projects are more like UIUX Team projects where everyone brings their specialty to the table. That is usually how I work with presentations and web projects and with trainers/facilitators and other teams. For example, I am working with a big hotel company and designing the presentations for onboarding chefs for Luxury properties, I will hand over the design files and they will make the articulate slides based on my look and feel if needed but I just wondered if knowing Articulate was a way to bring more of that kind of work into my office. Just wondering and thanks for the response.
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I feel like you're crossing the bridge between graphic design and instructional design.
To best extract the value out of Articulate Storyline, you really do need to be a learning professional with design skills..... i.e. Instructional Designer.
Understanding how people learn, how to engage, motivate, reward, retain etc. all that stuff and then applying all that to your design work.
If you either learn that stuff yourself, or work closely with other learning & development professionals, then you'll get the best from an authoring tool like Articulate Storyline.
Just my opinion, others are available :)
Thank you, I am not interested in Instructional Design as far as building the learning experiences and feel unqualified for that side of the coin but I have done UIUX and animation projects for many so I feel my skills need to stay on the visual side, and let the more experienced folks do their thing. I just wanted to understand if these projects are more like UIUX Team projects where everyone brings their specialty to the table. That is usually how I work with presentations and web projects and with trainers/facilitators and other teams. For example, I am working with a big hotel company and designing the presentations for onboarding chefs for Luxury properties, I will hand over the design files and they will make the articulate slides based on my look and feel if needed but I just wondered if knowing Articulate was a way to bring more of that kind of work into my office. Just wondering and thanks for the response.