Finding and briefing designers (UK)

Nov 27, 2014

Hi everyone,

I'm currently looking for a freelance designer/illustrator to work with me on developing some Storyline content for children and young people.

I always find it tricky to find someone who is familiar with rapid e-learning development. For some reason, lots of people that I have worked with before just can't get their heads around it!

So I was wondering - does anyone have good tips on how to work with and brief designers? Or does anyone have any good contacts or tips on where to look for someone?

Thanks!

4 Replies
Holly MacDonald

Hi George - I find this as well - I had started creating a "briefing" template - and struggled with it a bit. It seems to be more of a discovery process with each designer who is not familiar with e-learning.

  • First I show them some courses/solutions so they get a sense of what it is that we'll build. This might be using the showcase on the site, which has some good variety or pinterest or other sites.
  • I then assemble a list of the types of typical assets we'd need to consider: fonts, backgrounds, buttons/elements, photos/characters, colour palette, etc. I use David Anderson's mindmap to give a "big picture" https://community.articulate.com/series/how-do-i-get-the-right-look-and-feel-for-this-course/articles/using-the-design-map-template.
  • I'll share with them a visual design doc that I produced for an existing course and the final output so they can see the start and end points.

I would love to see what others' do as I'm sure I could improve my process.

Hope that helps!

Holly

George Matson-Phippard

Nicole, thanks for the links.

Holly - I'm so glad it's not just me! That's really helpful, exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.

I guess the 'discovery process' can happen once I have contracted with someone - I think my problem is that I don't have the resources to work intensively with someone before we have decided that they are right for the project (if that makes sense!). However, I think the suggestion of linking to other examples and getting a list of assets will be a great help.

Thank you :)

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