Jenae Cohn speaks about design for learning on episode 486 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

At the core of any class we’re teaching, we have to think about how a student or a user is going to navigate through that experience.

I encourage a balance of getting some feedback from your students after the class is over and using the analytics within it to come to some conclusions about what you could revise or do differently the next time you offer the course.