Category: Work In Progress
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Side Quest: Keeping the Challenge in the Dungeon
What happens when an instructional designer becomes a Dungeon Master? Character creation guides and redesigned character sheets. Here’s how I’ve been using accessibility, usability, and learning design to reduce barriers, lower cognitive load, and help new D&D players spend less time searching for information and more time playing the game.
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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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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!
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Design in Progress: Working Through Triggers and Layers in Storyline
A behind-the-scenes look at my design process in Articulate Storyline – experimenting with triggers, layers, and the small decisions that shape interactivity.