Visual design has a strong influence on everything we do. So, it's only natural that we consider its impact in how your designs engage learners. There's a reason why Instagram is a popular social media app and why blockbuster movies look the way they do. Marketing uses visuals for specific purposes and so shall we learning experience professionals.

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Adobe Captivate and Articulate Storyline are the most popular eLearning authoring tools on the planet. Both have different approaches for workflows and interactive features. In this episode, Alex and Tristia dive in to check what's new and how these tools match up against each other.

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Is gamification over? There are certainly many horrible as well as great examples of it in L&D. Alex and Tristia dive into the fascinating world of gamification and the power of game design for learning purposes in this episode of LXD Talks.

The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education

Handbook of Game-Based Learning

LXD Talks is the new vlog and podcast offering real conversations about the emerging field of Learning Experience Design (LXD) and sound Instructional Systems Design (ISD) practices. Hosts Alex Salas, Chief of Awesomeness at eLearningLaunch.com and ID extraordinaire Tristia Hennessey come to you live on YouTube and Facebook every Wednesday at 4PM EST. LXD Talks is also available as a podcast in all your favorite platforms.

Nowadays, Design Thinking is all the rage and in heavy rotation in corporate learning environments. What's behind design thinking and why do we think that it's the way to work in Learning and Development (L&D). Alex and Tristia get into design thinking in this episode.  

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The Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation or ADDIE framework has been around for over 40 years. The Successive Approximation Model or SAM by Michael Allen is what we would call a SCRUM Lite version of Agile. Many L&D practitioners tend to use one of these frameworks as their preferred way of creating learning interventions. Which one really matters and which ones are hype? Alex and Tristia take you there.

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How does creating learning personas benefit our learning designs? Personas are ideographic representations of an audience. Alex and Tristia discuss the practice of creating personas with the awesome Myra Roldan, a former software engineer turned L&D pro. Myra's currently a program manager at Amazon and she shares her know-how on personas in this episode.

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It's only natural that we talk about the meaning of Learning Experience Design (LXD), after all, it's the name of our show. Alex and Tristia are going to go deep into the subject though because like anything else in L&D, it's getting diffused. How can a designer dictate one's experience? Are we succumbing to designer ego at times? Come and get the goods in this episode of LXD Talks.

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On this EPIC first episode of LXD Talks, Alex and Tristia go deep into the archives and finally answer the existential question "What is Instructional Design?" Is it pretty graphics and information? Performance consulting? PowerPoint wizardry? Curriculum development or just a generic label for content developer? Come join us, ask questions and get into it.  

HISTORY OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA   

HISTORY OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN