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Critical Rolls & Cognitive Load
No hobby of mine is safe from instructional design. Here’s how I turned D&D character creation into a performance support problem and built a better Session 0 experience for my players.
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Shifting Left: Lessons from Designing Accessible Learning Content
Reflections on Susi Miller’s Designing Accessible eLearning and the power of “shifting accessibility left” by building accessibility into the learning design process from the start.
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A Practical Approach to Accessibility (Without the Panic)
As accessibility deadlines approach, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. This post reflects on creating small, practical accessibility resources and what I’m learning about designing support that feels doable instead of stressful.
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Project: TacoMazing Fire Safety
I designed a printed fire extinguisher job aid as part of a monthly design challenge, using Adobe Illustrator and InDesign to adapt existing visuals into a clear, branded safety resource. This post shares my design thinking, tool workflow, and a reminder of why learning design is such a dynamic and rewarding field.
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Using Jira for Your Workflow/Collaboration
In this project for Bowling Green State University, I needed a flexible way to collaborate, track tasks, and share resources without access to internal systems. Jira ended up being the perfect fit. In this post, I share what I like about using Jira for workflow management and why it’s a tool worth exploring, especially if…
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Investigating Effective Alt Text: Designing a Detective-Themed Microlearning
A quick look behind the scenes of my alt-text detective microlearning – a Rise + Genially experiment designed to spark curiosity, support accessibility, and offer a playful, non-judgmental way to think about image descriptions.
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Storyline: AI Javascript Animations
What do faulty smoke detectors, a strangely shaped house, and Storyline’s AI animation tools have in common? Apparently this week’s eLearning challenge. Here’s what I built, and what I learned.
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Creating Note Name Exercises with Musictheory.net
A snow day, a Camtasia challenge, and a pile of back-burner projects? Perfect recipe for a new musictheory.net tutorial.
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Project: Counterfeit Cash Vigilance Training
A behind-the-scenes look at my Counterfeit Cash Vigilance training—where I experimented with Storyline features, mapped branching paths in Miro, navigated an unexpected font betrayal, and learned way more about currency security than I ever expected.
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Design in Progress: Focus Order and Alt Text in Storyline
Join me for a quick walkthrough of how I set up Focus Order and alt text in Storyline (complete with tired-Sunday “ums”). Accessibility starts in the details!