Using Style Guides in E-Learning Course Design #481

E-Learning Style Guides #481: Challenge | Recap

Whether you’re creating a quick, single-slide interaction or a massive hundred-slide course, nailing down your design elements before you start building will save you tons of time and frustration down the road.

And that’s where a style guide comes into play. 

With a style guide, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel on every slide. By establishing design constraints for fonts, colors, and layouts, you can focus on the content rather than designing from slide to slide. And that’s what this week’s challenge is all about.

🏆 Challenge of the Week

This week’s challenge is to create a simple style guide and apply it to one or more slides to show how your styles will look in an actual course.

Since style guides come in all shapes and sizes and there’s no one-size-fits all approach. For this week’s challenge, you can build and share any type of style guidance you like.

You can keep your style guide simple by specifying fonts and colors or go further by defining the appearance of interactive objects and layouts.

🧰 Resources

• Storyline 360: Customizing Your Course Design
• Rise 360: Personalize the Theme

Articles

• What to Include in an E-Learning Style Guide
• The Why and How of Building an E-Learning Style Guide in Storyline
• Why You Need an E-Learning Style Guide
• 3 Ideas for Balancing Branding Guidelines with E-Learning Design
• How to Use a Simple Font Style Guide for Consistent Course Design
• 9 Easy Ways to Deal with Corporate Branding in Your E-learning Courses

✨ Share Your E-Learning Work

• Comments: Use the comments section below to link your published example and blog post.
• Forums: Start a new thread and share a link to your published example.
• Personal blog: If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We'll link to your posts so your great work gets even more exposure.
• Social media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can follow your e-learning coolness.

🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you offer style guidance in this week’s challenge, check out the boo-tifully designed Halloween examples your fellow Coursebusters shared over the past week:

Halloween-Inspired E-Learning Examples RECAP #480: Challenge | Recap

👋 New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.

📆 Upcoming Challenges

• E-Learning Challenge #482 (11.08): Using asymmetrical layouts. Think course starters with an emphasis on breaking the grid for intentional imbalance.