“Learning experience design is the process of creating learning experiences that enable the learner to achieve the desired learning outcome in a human-centered and goal-oriented way.” - Niels Floor, This is Learning Experience Design
Learning Experience Design (LXD)
A learning experience encompasses all that one does, thinks, and feels from the moment they enter the experience to the moment they’re done and even beyond.
Designing for both emotion and cognition is key to creating a powerful learning experience. Keeping the people you design for and their goals at heart will improve every learning experience.
Identify Need
What data sources do you rely on to gain an understanding of the people you design for?
Empathy
To empathize is to research. You design for people.
Empathy is gaining the best possible understanding of your people, their needs, the problem(s) that you are trying to solve, and/or the learning gaps that need to be filled.
Empathic design helps create more inclusive and effective learning events. As designers, it’s our job to consider diverse perspectives to find the human in the learning experience.
Identify Your Learner: WHO are we empathizing with?
Who is the person we want to understand?
What is the situation they are in?
What is their role in the situation?
The Learning Experience Design Process
This backward design approach is key for more deliberately designed sessions.
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The progression below guides you through the LXD process.
Each step provides context on why and how to plan sessions focused on the overall experience of the learner.
Design
Click each section below to view details, resources, and strategies.
The Design Essentials and the Learning-Transfer Evaluation Model are embedded in the Design category.