Mike Taylor

There are two things virtually everyone is running short on: time and money. This is especially true for designers living in the L&D world. The double whammy of shrinking budgets and increasing workloads makes it challenging to get the design assets you need to make your projects look like a million bucks. Fortunately, if you know where to look, it’s easy to tap into a wealth of high-quality design assets available for free online. In this session, you’ll uncover a huge collection of high-quality resources suitable for your creative toolkit. Among graphics, fonts, icons, and more, you’ll find the design resources you need to make your projects look polished and be more effective—no budget requests required! In this session, you will learn: » Where to find a wide range of design resources organized by category » About some of the top resources in each category » A few creative tips that can help you extend these resources even further https://mike-taylor.org/presentations/filling-yo

We may not realize it, but as learning professionals, we have a lot of things in common with marketers. We both face one big challenge: How to get people’s attention and help them think and act in new ways. So what can we learn from marketing teams? As it turns out, a lot. In today’s hyper-distracted world, we must first engage our audience if we have any hope of informing them. Savvy marketers understand how to use the latest technologies and tap into the psychology of emotions — there’s a reason you don’t see bullet points in advertising. In this session, we reveal some tools and techniques that marketers have been successfully using for years to capture attention and move people to take action. https://mike-taylor.org/presentations/steal-from-marketing/

This presentation gives you the foundation for building great multimedia learning materials by introducing some of Richard Mayer’s proven design principles. Understanding how people learn, enables you to move beyond the typical ‘information dump’ approach to crafting truly effective learning experiences that are ‘made to stick’! https://mike-taylor.org/2017/05/04/the-art-science-of-e-learning/