How to Minimize Cognitive Load Effectively? Another concept to keep in mind is that learning occurs with active processing in the memory system, in other…
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Why is Cognitive Load the Answer to Almost Everything? When you develop training and learning materials it is critical that you see them through the…
What Is Trilogy of the Mind? The effort to establish artificial intelligence with computers has lead to major strides in this area. A lot of…
Why You Need to Use Mirrors? Since you read from left to right, your content should be on the left so learners can naturally read…
What Do Expectations Have to Do With Learning? Expectations are what we imagine might be true or what we think is likely to happen. Expectations…
What Prior Knowledge, If Any, Does Your Audience Need? Prior knowledge is what you already know. It makes sense that if your brain works in…
What Impacts Learning? I don’t know how people learn. No one knows for sure. There has been considerable research on the subject and three things…
What Does Chunking Have to Do With Learning? How does this apply to training and learning? Learners should not be thinking about lower level skills…
Why Do We Use Chunking? One way to minimize cognitive load is through a process called chunking. Have you ever wondered why there are seven…
How to Use White Space? Do you have any idea how many images are part of our daily lives? You see images on every highway…
How to Use Focal Points? Size and expectation play an important part in where the eyes fall and how the learner takes things in. You…
How to Use Red and How Not To? Unless you have a really good reason, don’t use red. One in four people experiences a certain…
How to Use Color Effectively in Your Presentations? While color is very powerful and can affect our moods and emotions, many people have trouble reading…
Alignment: How to Tell the Amateurs from the Pros? Alignment is the third element in good design. Alignment is all about symmetry, asymmetry, positions, positive…
Repetition: Again, and Again and Again! The second element of good design is repetition. We know through a host of research studies that repetition is…
