Danielle Churchill Design

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How does developing learner empathy help me design an optimal learner experience?  Parrish (2006) calls it a necessary skill for IDs, a "dramatic rehearsal". The design story calls for a character, who the ID follows along their instructional journey. In first-person viewpoint, describe the experience of the learner including their atmosphere, thoughts, external factors.  Quick record (don't spend much time on details) Present tense Inhabit the learner Use empathetic imagination Design perspective: Who is my learner? A working mother who wants to manage her stress better. What's her story? Inhabit the learner. When does she take the course? Why? With what expectation? What are her surroundings when taking the course? Describe her disposition. When does it benefit me most in this project to create the design story? Answer: During the Design phase (Parrish 2006) Learner: Pam. She's a work-from-home mother to her two-year-old daughter while also managing an online bu...

Topic: Mindfulness Target audience: Everyone? Can I focus on people who self-identify as overwhelmed with life and managing the several areas it involves? Mothers How to gather data? Informal survey through messaging. Poll people I know about their perspective of mindfulness. Question: How do you define/understand "mindfulness"? Design Methods Persona  Because we naturally relate to other people People typically share similar interests and lifestyles that influence their attraction to a product Without a persona, designers/design team make assumptions or design for themselves - Problematic!  Gives a target to focus on User journey mapping Visualize the steps a user will take to accomplish a goal 1st: Whose journey is it? Using the data collected about users' characteristics, what do I want them to accomplish? 2nd: Plot the stages of the experience using a timeline Identify the 6 aspects: Stages, Activities, Thoughts and Emotions, Touchpoints, Pains, Gains... as well as th...

 What do I want the learner to gain from this course? An understanding of mindfulness and how to practice it daily. Why do I think mindfulness is an important concept to learn about? There is not one person who functions normally in everyday society that doesn't feel the pressures of day-to-day responsibilities and tasks. To manage all areas of life more succinctly, mindfulness opens you up for balance. How can someone practice mindfulness? That's the central idea of this course. Perhaps in this course I'm not teaching the learner what  mindfulness is, but rather using interaction to let them come to a conclusion. Then at the end of the course, they would compare their definition of mindfulness with the one I've introduced in the beginning. Layout: One interactive slide is an animate image of an enlarged brain. Coming out of the brain are cloud thoughts. The cloud thoughts are clickable. Inside them, they dig deeper into each concept. It's called a labeled graphic i...