Branching scenario Scenario-based learning provides an engaging learning experience. Students get real content and position themselves into the storyline, becoming emotionally engaged with the content. Luckily both Articulate Rise and Adobe Captivate have branching scenario features that help designers and developers build branching scenarios a lot easier. Articulate Rise: Users can choose the character from the character library and scenario background images. Able to set up track completion without a quiz set up. The downside is that all characters are photography-based, and there isn’t an option to upload your own photos/illustrations to use as characters. The limitations of characters, facial expressions, and poses might become a disadvantage for designing branching scenario activities. Captivate: You can choose scenario characters from Captivate assets library, and the royalty-free assets store has over 100 characters to choose from. The character store also includes different visual style characters, e.g. photo-realistic drawings, cartoon illustration characters and cut out photos. Also, you can find the same character in a different pose, photo angle, facial expression, outfit and hairstyle. If you like, you can also upload a specific photo or illustration as the branching scenario character. However, to choose a character, you need to download the image first, […]
FSSI design is a journey
Last September, I completed the user interface design of a learning package for a client, Future Social Service Institute (FSSI). Here is the story of my design process, of how the brand new FSSI online course package design evolved and came to life. With so many available online learning and management platforms and different design themes to follow, it can be a nightmare to get started. While I did a lot of design and development versions for this FSSI online course design, I won’t show you every single design I made, nor will I only talk about the final product. This post is about the journey to the final product and all the significant stages of the process. It starts with the client brief. The Brief There wasn’t much information in the client brief for the design of a brand new online learning package, but it did spell out a few things that the package had to have: the FSSI brand minimal navigation a modern design that was professional and suitable for all genders between the ages of 17-40yr) the ability to embed into any learning management system (LMS) like Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, etc. The design of […]
