Understand Your Learner: Designing for User Experience

Gone are the days of boring slide presentations and death-by-clicking-next e-learning courses. Technology has advanced, and with this advent of easy-to-use authoring tools and graphic design software, learners expect more and want their experience to be not only educational but also visually stimulating. The best instructional designers are now expected to have graphic design and user experience design skills, as well, to deliver on this expectation. Enter the learning experience (LX) designer, a hybrid title of instructional design and user experience design most applicable to technology based learning.