Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)

Description of the article « Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter) »

Whether you build online courses, onboarding flows or workplace training, the hard part isn't presenting information. It's getting people to remember it and change what they do. Design for How People Learn tackles exactly that.

What you'll learn

Julie Dirksen starts with the learner: what they already know, and where the real gap lies. A gap in knowledge, in skill, in motivation or in the environment around them each calls for a different solution. From there she covers how memory and attention work, how to design practice that builds real skill, and how to support behaviour change that lasts.

The book is heavily illustrated and written in plain language, which makes the research easy to follow.

Who it's for

It's written for instructional designers, trainers and teachers, and it's just as useful to UX designers working on onboarding, tutorials or learning products.

It focuses on principles rather than particular authoring tools, so you won't find software walkthroughs here.