Visual Design Basics for eLearning Development | How-To Workshop

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Designing effective and engaging eLearning requires more than just good instructional design—it also needs to look good! However, if you're like a lot of eLearning and instructional design professionals, you've likely found yourself struggling with the visual design aspects of developing eLearning.

What fonts should you use? How do you create a custom color scheme? How do you find images and graphics that resonate with your learners? And how to bring it all together into a visually pleasing layout?

The truth is, if you're like most eLearning designers, these are all questions you've asked yourself.

So, in this How-To Workshop, I'll walk you through how to apply basic visual design concepts to help you create more engaging and better-looking eLearning courses.

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:46 Why is Visual Design Hard?
00:09:14 What is Visual Design?
00:12:23 Compositional Visual Design for eLearning
00:16:24 Picking Fonts for eLearning
00:21:10 The Three Font Rule
00:24:40 Examples & Tools for Picking Fonts
00:33:45 Picking Colors for eLearning
00:35:55 The Four Color Rule
00:38:46 Examples & Tools for Picking Colors
00:45:34 Picking Images for eLearning
00:46:53 Pictures
00:50:17 Icons
00:53:00 Graphics
00:54:00 Examples & Tools for Picking Images
01:02:21 Slide Layout for eLearning
01:04:06 Title Slides & Content Slides
01:05:36 Examples & Tools for eLearning Slide Layout
01:13:26 Visual Design Resources
01:14:20 Closing

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