This week Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee brings on special guest Connie Malamed. The three will talk about visual design and creativity as well as the psychology around eLearning, as presented in her two books: Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers. This session speaks volumes about the importance of psychology in design, and the roles those in an L&D team have in order to target a learning audience in the most effective way. Connie Malamed is a learning experience design consultant with Connie Malamed Consulting and publisher of The eLearning Coach website and podcast. Connie is an author, speaker and workshop facilitator in the fields of learning experience design, design thinking, and visual communication. She has helped nonprofit, government, and corporate clients improve performance by creating meaningful learning experiences for more than 20 years. She was honoured with the Guild Master award for 2018. Check out Connie on LinkedIn. Check out a few of these awesome resources by Connie related to visual design and psychology in eLearning: Realistic Graphics and Learning: What’s most effective? - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/graphics/realistic-graphics-and-learning/?platform=hootsuite 21 Ways to Improve Your Infographics - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/improve-your-infographics/ A Graphic Development Workflow For eLearning . - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/graphics/graphic-development-workflow-for-elearning/ How to Crop Photos for eLearning - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/graphics/how-to-crop-photos-for-elearning/ Check out Connie's books on Amazon! Visual Design Solutions: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Design-Solutions-Inspiration-Professionals/dp/1118863569/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542114674&sr=8-1&keywords=connie%20malamed&dpID=41y87keLrpL&preST=SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40&dpSrc=srch Visal Language for Designers: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Language-Designers-Principles-Understand-ebook/dp/B003NUSBUU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1542114674&sr=8-2&keywords=connie%20malamed&dpID=4172IoNxCSL&preST=SX342_QL70&dpSrc=srch Connie Malamed Consulting: http://conniemalamed.com/ The eLearning Coach: http://theelearningcoach.com/author/connie/ Connie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniemalamed/ Become virtual friends with Connie and the IDIODC gang (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag)! Connie: https://twitter.com/elearningcoach Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

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