Cover Slide Design Technique for E-Learning #510: Challenge | Recap
🏆 Challenge of the Week
Slide designs can often feel flat or unfinished, especially when there’s too much white space or not enough visual texture. You want something that looks polished, but without overloading your screens with unnecessary decoration.
That’s where this simple cover slide image effect comes in.
It’s a simple trick: take your main image, duplicate it, scale it up, and fade it into the background. The result is a subtle, professional look that adds depth and context without stealing the spotlight.
This week, your challenge is to create a cover slide for an e-learning course that uses this transparent design technique. This is one of those small design tips that can make a big difference in your content presentation.
🧰 Resources & Related Challenges
- Here’s a Visual Design Tip to Make Your Slides Look Great
- E-Learning Cover Slides #377: Challenge | Recap
⚒️ Authoring Tools
You’re welcome to use any authoring tool you’d like this week. If you’re short on time, try quickly mocking up your ideas using PowerPoint, Figma, or your favorite graphics app.
🙌 Share Your E-Learning Work
You put in the effort, now let’s make sure people see it. Here are some easy ways to share your challenge demos and get your work noticed:
- Personal blog: If you have a blog, please write about your example from this week’s challenge and share the link with your submission.
- Social media: Please share your examples on LinkedIn and mention both David & Articulate using the #ElearningChallenge tags so we can help promote your work.
- Support your peers: With the new submission format, you can comment directly on each example. Try leaving helpful feedback on at least three projects this week
- Community forums: Feel free to cross-post in the forums to give your work even more visibility.
🎉 Last Week’s Challenge:
If you participated in last week’s course starter challenge, feel free to add your cover photo design to the course starter template you shared.
Using Course Starters in E-Learning Development #509: Challenge | Recap
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The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.
Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.
