Instructional Design + Learning Experience Design
Learning designed for what people need to do.
Performance-focused instructional design built across visual design, technology, and storytelling.
View My WorkPerformance-Focused Learning Design
Good learning doesn’t begin with content. It begins with what people need to do differently.
I design clear, visual, interactive learning experiences that connect performance needs with thoughtful instructional design, technology, and storytelling.
Featured Project
See the work before you read about it.
Explore a learning experience first, then go behind the scenes to see the thinking, decisions, and design process that shaped it.
Capabilities
What I can build for you
Three ways I bring instructional design, visual thinking, and technology together to support learning and performance.
Scenario & Storyboard Design
Clear learning structures, realistic decisions, and visual storyboards that connect instructional goals with the experience learners actually see.
Learn more →Interactive eLearning Development
Storyline and Rise experiences built around meaningful interaction, feedback, branching, and visual clarity rather than interaction simply for its own sake.
Learn more →Visual Learning & Performance Design
Visual systems, job aids, presentations, and learning assets that make complex information easier to understand, use, and act on.
Learn more →Process
How I Build
A practical design approach that connects the learning problem, the learner experience, and the tools used to build it.
Start with the performance need
Before choosing an interaction or tool, I look at what people actually need to understand, decide, or do differently.
Design the whole experience
Content, visuals, decisions, feedback, navigation, and technology work together as one system rather than as separate pieces.
Build, test, and refine
Prototypes and working builds make the design visible early, so the experience can improve before complexity becomes expensive.
Want to see what that looks like?
Explore the projects to see how these decisions move from instructional thinking into finished learning experiences.
Portfolio
My Projects
Selected work showing different approaches to instructional design, interaction, visual communication, and learning experience design.
Adaptive by Design
An adaptive Storyline experience that uses assessment and branching to guide learners through different levels of content.
View Project Details →Ask What Matters
A scenario-based clinical learning experience designed around observation, decision-making, feedback, and learner trust.
View Project Details →Discover Petaluma
A choice-based Rise experience combining personas, multimedia, interactive exploration, and tailored recommendations.
View Project Details →Visual Storyboarding
Storyboards, design documents, flow maps, and interface planning that translate learning strategy into clear visual direction.
View Project Details →Project Five
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View Project Details →Project Six
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View Project Details →Hi, I’m Dave
I’m an instructional designer with a multidisciplinary background across visual design, technology, teaching, and user experience. I bring those perspectives together to make learning clearer, more useful, and more human.
A little about how I got here
Visual design came first
A background in visual, spatial, and interface design still shapes how I organize information and think about learning experiences.
Teaching changed the question
Working with learners shifted my attention from what something looks like to what people need to understand and do.
Technology expanded the possibilities
Digital learning, interaction design, multimedia, and emerging AI tools give me more ways to build responsive learning experiences.
I still think in systems
Whether I’m designing a scenario, screen, or course, I’m always looking at how the individual parts contribute to the whole experience.
Curiosity keeps the work moving
I keep exploring new tools, disciplines, and ways of thinking when they can make learning more useful, visual, interactive, or human.
A few things that shape my point of view
Skills & Expertise
Skills & Expertise
Learning strategy, visual thinking, and the design skills that move ideas from concept into clear, useful experiences.
Learning Design
Design
Tools & Technologies
A working toolkit across eLearning development, multimedia, visual design, UX, and 2D / 3D design.
Experience
Professional Experience
A career built across design, technology, teaching, and learning — bringing those disciplines together in instructional design.
Work
Faculty & Software Instruction
Teaching design and software in both classroom and online environments, while helping learners build confidence with unfamiliar tools, workflows, and visual concepts.
LMS Administration & Faculty Support
Supporting Canvas LMS implementation, faculty adoption, online course development, and the transition from traditional instruction into more consistent digital learning experiences.
Visual Design, Technology & Communication
Professional work spanning architecture, AutoCAD, 2D and 3D graphics, visual design, modelmaking, tradeshow design, technology, and digital communication.
Instructional Design & eLearning Development
Designing performance-focused learning through storyboards, scenarios, Storyline and Rise development, adaptive approaches, multimedia, and AI-supported learning prototypes.
Education
eLearning Instructional Design Certificate
Instructional design, eLearning development, evaluation, interactive learning, and applied design projects.
UX / UI Design
User-centered design, interface thinking, interaction, usability, and digital experience design.
Architecture
A foundation in visual organization, systems thinking, spatial relationships, structure, and design problem-solving.
Computer Animation & Digital Graphics
Digital graphics, animation, visual communication, and the technical foundations behind 2D and 3D design work.
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Tell me about your project
Have a learning challenge, project idea, or simply want to start a conversation? I’d be glad to hear what you’re working on.
Let’s connect
I’m interested in freelance, contract, and collaborative instructional design work — from early strategy and storyboards through interactive learning experiences and visual design.
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