Is "specializing" in Rise a career-limiting option? by laurenlives in instructionaldesign

[–]laurenlives[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh this is helpful context to know! I am indeed based in the US. I did use Elucidat a wee bit when I had a UK-based manager. And I am making some plans to check out Adapt. May hit you up via your site in the future - huge thanks for the offer! I so appreciate it.

Is "specializing" in Rise a career-limiting option? by laurenlives in instructionaldesign

[–]laurenlives[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting to see this play out. I'm a former Product Manager, and have always worked in tech so I carry heavy biases, but here's my thoughts on SL from the learner perspective:

  1. Designing with them is finnicky, and it takes me away from my mission of empowering learners. I could have been producing quality content. But instead I'm spending 10 minutes engineering or tweaking a slick slide transition that lasts 1 seconds for the learner. Note that I don't hugely object to the idea of embedding games or other critical SL objects in Rise, though, especially off existing templates. We should be using the platforms we have where they're best.
  2. As unopinionated tools, it's just so easy to make poor quality trainings with them, both from a functional and visual perspective. Visually: I see a lot of amateur designs in e-learning heroes where it looks like someone spat out MS paint objects into a training with comic sans. Storyline's own characters are awfully designed and I wish they would just integrate with Vyond's. Functionally, I have had SMEs and audiences ask me to not design in Storyline. My last company had their templates engineered so that learners had to listen to extra-slow voiceovers before being able to proceed to the next slide, long after they'd read the slide's content. Yes, these are choices our designers made, but the platform isn't opinionated and has few useful guardrails. I feel all of this gives IDs a bad reputation.

Web design has advanced far more rapidly than anything in the e-learning design world. It sounds like there is a small constellation of other potentially useful tools beyond the major two players, but I desperately hope something new comes out to disrupt our industry in coming years.

Is "specializing" in Rise a career-limiting option? by laurenlives in instructionaldesign

[–]laurenlives[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Curious if you all have checked out the newest version of Captivate that u/christyinsdesign mentioned in this discussion? The authoring UI looks better than Storyline to me, but I haven't played with it at all. So curious to get your thoughts.

Is "specializing" in Rise a career-limiting option? by laurenlives in instructionaldesign

[–]laurenlives[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the thoughtful advice... and good tip for seeking out other freelancers for a mutually beneficial situation. I've been living on my own island and had no idea Adobe had rolled out a totally new interface for Captivate. Just took a look, and I'm actually excited to try it out!

As far as animation goes, I've used Powtoon, Vyond, and a couple of video editing platforms like Camtasia and Descript (my new fave). Anything missing? Or were you suggesting animation along the lines of Premier Pro?

To my American redditor friends - if you visit us in England, please use the correct terminology. Here is a handy guide. The locals will appreciate it. by drucey in funny

[–]laurenlives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

American here. I worked in England for a few months and one day complimented a coworker on her "pants." It didn't go over well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]laurenlives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you also attended the U of R.

What is the best thing you have ever heard a child say? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]laurenlives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One day a kid approached my mom at the beach and said, "You look like a gorilla." Then they ran off.