Using Tabs Interactions for Exploration #517: Challenge | Recap
🏆 Challenge of the Week
This week, your e-learning challenge is to build a tabs interaction that makes exploring content feel simple and engaging.
Tabs are one of those classic tools that just work. They keep your layout clean, make content easier to digest, and help learners stay focused without being overwhelmed.
Whether you're stepping through a process, sharing case studies, or breaking down complex topics, tabs make it easy for learners to pull up just what they need, when they need it. And that's what this week's challenge is all about!
🎯 Challenge Goals & Objectives
- Practice using Storyline's building blocks (states, layers, and triggers).
- Try mixing in images, audio, video, or simple animations.
- Explore new ways to chunk content and give learners more control over how they pull information.
🚀 Tips for Getting Started
Here are some ways to approach this week’s challenge:
- Start with the basics: Focus on clean layout and alignment before adding interactivity.
- Add some logic: Use conditional triggers to lock navigation until all tabs are visited, or trigger something fun like a lightbox or gamified celebration.
- Look to the past: Check out the 2023 tabs challenge recap for inspiration.
⚒️ 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 make sure your work gets seen:
- 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 E-Learning Challenge:
Before you tab through design ideas, take some time to reflect on last week’s e-learning journal challenge:
Using Learning Journals in E-Learning #516: Challenge | Recap
👋 New to the E-Learning Challenges?
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.
📆 Upcoming E-Learning Challenges and Supporting Webinars
- Challenge #518 (08.08): Creating Performance Meters in Storyline 360.
- Challenge #519 (08.15): Customer Service Training in Rise 360. Alyssa Gomez is teaching a live class August 12 on this topic.
- Challenge #520 (08.22): Using variables to personalize e-learning. I'm teaching a live class August 26 and will feature your work in this class.
