HTML
For these projects, I designed storyboards in Word and passed them on to a programmer or team to build a product in HTML for LMS applications.
Automotive repair training
As an QA lead and ID on this project, I developed and QA’d other ID’s boards done in Word, and QA’d and tested functionality for all lessons as they were developed. Boards were then fed to an HTML development team who provided three drafts of HTML courses for reviews. These were highly interactive courses for auto repair technicians. For example, on this screen, they would read about the problem, place the meter connectors where they thought best on the battery, turn the key to start the engine, hear the engine, and finally read/adjust the meter to get more information about how they might diagnose and troubleshoot the problem.
Mobile field technician training
Large, fast-production project building WBT for mobile field technicians. This was my first project using Word as a board medium and it was great. I also learned a lot from this production team which ran like “a well-oiled machine,” as they say.
Built in 1999, you can see another example of interface experimentation, though I had nothing to do with the GUI design. But I learned a ton about instructional design on this one, as we had controlled branching content, question boxes, pop-up text and image content, and much of the functionality then that we see today with Storyline.