My This & That

Creating with #GarageBand and Sharing with #Soundcloud

Had some time and decided to record some music and share it on SoundCloud for the heck of it. So as usual, I am sharing it here.

#Adobe #Illustrator - Snowflake Swatch and Pattern

After watching a quick tutorial video on making a snowflake pattern, I made my own and thought I would share what was created. It was fairly easy to do and promoted some of basic features that I don’t always use within AI.

I shared the video tutorial below.

  This latest UI challenge involved creating a profile page. I used my own image and applied a mobile design on this one.

Design a user profile and be mindful of the most important data, names, imagery, placement, etc. Is it for a serious profile? A social profile?

With this app icon, I tried to create something related to the universally recognized play button for videos, andI used them to create a previous and next arrows concept for an eLearning app. The idea was relate to how we navigate through most web-based courses.

Design an app icon. What best represents the brand or product? Or is it incredibly unique? Does it look great at a distance and does it…

004 #DailyUI – Calculator @Daily_UI Turkey Weight calculator prototype.

Challenge four (outlined below) focused on creating a calculator. Since the recent holiday was Thanksgiving, I went with an interactive Turkey Weight Cook Time calculator for a website like the Food Network. The image below is only a prototype and isn’t interactive, but it would be fairly simple to create.

Design a calculator. Standard, scientific, or specialty calculator for something such as a…

I'm thankful for the daily UI challenges 003 #DailyUI – Landing Page @Daily_UI #thankful

Today’s challenge involved creating a landing page, above the fold. I had beer and learning on my mind; so, I created “CraftClass” –  craft brewers online university. I created two mockups this time and had another concept altogether in my mind. But as stated in previous posts, quick and dirty is a guideline of mine here; so that, I don’t get bogged down with these challenges.

Daily UI Challenge…

002 #DailyUI – Credit Card Form @Daily_UI

Day two of the UI challenge and I was asked to create a credit checkout form or page. Because I don’t have much experience with Checkout pages, I went to Dribble to look for a few hints, and I found Justin Campbell-Platt’s Dribble design to be inspiring.

So, I grabbed an EarthQuaker guitar pedal proceeded to design my checkout form. And two images from UnSplash to create the following mockup.

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As I was scrolling for some LinkedInspiration, I found some within a post from Melissa Milloway via a daily UI challenge. I always like a good challenge, and I need a reason to get back into writing on this site. This challenge from Daily UI Design site involves 100 challenges in total delivered 5 days a week.

We will see if I stick with it all the way through. With the way I tinker with even…

Articulate Samples

This content was created for the fun of it, but displays some basic interactions that are possible within Articulate Storyline as an interactive course.

This template was create to simulate a conversation through text message. The idea was to create a scenario with a series of challenges to work through and respond appropriately.

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All too often, I find myself searching for the perfect set of clean and unifying graphics to incorporate within my latest eLearning project. I tend to rely on Google Images, Iconfinder, Flaticon (recently blocked at work), The Noun Project, IconsDB or other sites devoted to providing quality visual representations for a confining theme.

Instead of taking from the web, I decided to create my own…

This project was created for the Chicago chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement.  The content is focused on the concept of Human Performance Improvement (HPT).  This self-paced course was created using Adobe Captivate.  In its current state, it is not completely finished but offers a preview of what I am capable of completing with Captivate.

Adobe Captivate SBL project…

Kahoot! is an easy-to-use student response system.  It makes giving quizzes engaging.  The following content was developed to assist teachers and introduce them to this student response system.

Video Screencast Teacher View/Student View

The following directions explain how to use Kahoot with your students.  On the left, the teacher’s screen is displayed on the left and the student’s screen on…

Instructional Designer Questions #Instructionaldesign #eLearning

Some people collect Beanie Babies and others collect Shopkins. I have always been a collector of questions, but for some reason asking the “scripted ID questions” sometimes eludes me. Instead, I will tend to ask questions that fit naturally into the dialogue.

However, conversations with stakeholders or SMEs can sometimes spin a web, and by the end of the meeting there are many unanswered…