October 3 2024 – Niels Floor | Interaction design is a discipline that is foundational to learning experience design. However, it is often overlooked. And that’s a shame, because I see IxD skills as essential for designing great learning experiences. In fact, both fields have a lot in common. “Interaction…
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September 2, 2024 – Lieke Bremer | This year’s theme of LXDCON was Let’s Play! Therefore, we couldn’t resist hosting a game jam. Participants only had 4 days to create a game! These are the results. What is a game jam? A game jam is a collaborative event where participants…
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July 11, 2024 – Niels Floor | The ninth annual learning experience design conference LXDCON’24 took place June 11 to 14. With this year’s theme “Let’s play!” we had fun exploring how play, gamification, and game design can boost learning experiences. Here are some of the lessons that I learned!…
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May 9 2024 – Mitch Whitehead | Imagine a training program that ditches lectures and icebreakers for questing and adventure, where participants become heroes on an epic adventure to build their skills and slay their dragons. This isn’t fantasy; it’s the core of QUEST, a game-based system for learning experience…
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February 12 2024 – Niels Floor | How do you ensure learners reach their goals? And how do you know if these goals are relevant for the learner? To answer these questions, it’s smart to take a good look at goal-oriented design. “Learning experience design (LXD) is the process of…
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December 14 2023 – Niels Floor | What do all designers need to do their best work? Creativity! Designers use creativity to envision and create things that we love to see and use. We expect designers to come up with original ideas, innovative solutions, and beautiful designs that get the…
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October 4, 2023 – Maria Galaykova | When I arrived in Argentina for the first time and attempted to order black tea in a cafe, the answer was “Sorry, we don’t have black tea”. “Ok, which tea do you have?” I responded. “We have té común, chamomile tea, green tea,…
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August 24 2023 – Niels Floor | Having empathy for the people you design for is vital for the creation of a personal and purposeful learning experience. What is empathy and why is it important for learning experience design? According to Merriam Webster Dictionary empathy is “the action of understanding,…
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July 3 2023 – Niels Floor | The most frequently asked question about learning experience design (LXD) is “What is Learning experience design?” Once you know the definition of LXD, many wonder how learning experience design is different. LXDCON’23 has the answer! Figuring out how LXD is different depends on…
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June 13, 2023 by Maria Galaykova | From many conversations with people new to LXD, I concluded that most of them lack examples to understand what LXD is about. So, I decided to collect and showcase several great learning experience design examples. But I faced 2 main challenges: LXD is…
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April 25 2023 – Maaike Mintjes | Michael Schurr, a 2nd grade teacher in New York, was trying to figure out how to encourage discovery learning in his classroom. As a first step, he interviewed his students. The interviews revealed that it was not the curriculum, but the physical space…
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March 30 2023 – Niels Floor | When you look at the definition of learning experience design (LXD), the term human centered design (HCD) is featured prominently. Even if you’ve never heard of HCD, it’s easy to imagine why this is a sensible concept. But what is HCD exactly? Find…
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November 24, 2022 by Sonia Tiwari | Several educational products and services use unique character designs to distinguish their brands. While talking Geckos in insurance commercials can be entertaining and interactive user-guide characters like Clippy in the good old days of Microsoft Word are dated, characters have a lot more…
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August 1, 2022 by Niels Floor | The seventh annual Learning Experience Design Conference LXDCON’22 offered a variety of engaging activities spread out over four days. We learned a lot and I would like to share a couple of key take-aways with you. The art of learning experience design Let’s…
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December 20, 2021 by Niels Floor | Learning experience design (LXD) is often associated with design thinking. While there is some truth to this notion, they cannot easily be compared. In this article I would like to zoom in on the differences and similarities between these two different disciplines that…
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November 8, 2021 by Niels Floor | You are about to hire a learning experience (LX) designer for your next project. What can you expect when it comes to the quality of their work? To answer that question, we should look at what you can expect from any professional designer.…
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July 26, 2021 by Maria Galaykova | Many of us live in a paradigm where employees are referred to as “human resources” and seen as a part of corporate mechanism. I think, everyone in a modern world from time to time has this feeling of being a small gear in…
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May 12, 2021 by Niels Floor | User experience design (UXD) is an essential part of the origin and development of Learning experience design (LXD). This raises the question: what are the differences and similarities between UXD and LXD? Or, what happens when a user becomes a learner? LXD and…
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February 15, 2021 by Rodrigo J. Gallego | Working as an experience learning designer is like being a chef. In order to design your experience, you need to carefully select your ingredients, spices, and carefully blend them to obtain an original powerful learning experience. But which are the key ingredients…
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January 21, 2021 by Niels Floor | What is the difference between learning experience design and instructional design? That’s a question I get a lot, especially from instructional designers. There is no short answer to this question, so buckle up! As a pioneer in the field of Learning Experience Design…
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October 6, 2020 by Niels Floor | Empathy is a vital skill for learning experience designers. It allows you to see the world through the eyes of the learner. I’d like to share a LX design tool that can improve your ability to empathise and the overall the quality of…
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June 10, 2020 by Patrick van der Bogt How to prepare for and perform a virtual session on prototyping? Let’s start with a pitfall. When contributing to the wonderful Learning Experience Design Conference (LXDCON20′) this week there are two modes that became triggered for me. Firstly, as a designer my…
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June 10, 2020 by Patrick van der Bogt Visualisation was one of the key components of last week’s Learning Experience Design Conference. So let’s practice what we preach. On Wednesday June 3rd Marieke Welle Donker and I put together a Design Lab session about testing. We chose an interview format…
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February 3, 2020 Zofia Einhorn Learning is playing, playing is learning. It’s obvious when we think about kids. It’s how they learn new stuff, which makes games their way of developing. But then we grow up, and for some reason, “forget” how to play. We might even hear some adults…
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June 27, 2019 On March 20th, 21st and 22nd it was time for the fourth annual learning experience design conference. This year we, from Shapers and initiators of LXDCON, partnered up with AUAS, DSS, CFI and HKU to host it at the University of Applied Sciences in the capital of…
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May 23, 2019 - How do you make a learning experience come to life as soon and as simple as possible? Through paper prototyping. Here's a crash course.
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February 3, 2019 - Recently there’s been a heated debate surrounding learning experience design (LX design). I’ve come across several misconceptions about LX design. In this article I’d like to tackle the three most prominent ones.
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November 13, 2018 - The second annual Asian learning experience design conference was a blast. In case you missed it or if you want a quick recap, here are three take-aways.
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June 16, 2018 - Previously I explained that mapping learning experiences is different from mapping customer experiences. Now it’s time to look at how you can create a learner journey.
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March 5, 2018 - LX design and Instructional design are two different fields of expertise. While some instructional designers argue that LX design is simply a new form of instructional design, I would argue it’s not. Here’s why.
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