Scenario-based learning
- Branching decisions
- Realistic consequences
- Role-based perspectives
- Workplace situations
- Adaptive feedback
- Non-linear pathways
Specialist depth · Articulate Storyline
Complex interaction when the interaction carries the learning.
I have used Articulate Storyline across regulated aviation and education learning for more than a decade, including six years inside Australia's aviation safety regulator. That depth is useful when the learning depends on decisions, consequence, practice, simulation or state — and when the result still needs to be maintainable after the interesting interaction has been built.
When Storyline earns its complexity
When the interaction carries the learning.
Storyline is useful when a learner needs to make a decision, practise a process, explore a consequence, work through a branching scenario or receive feedback that depends on what they did. The tool is not the starting point; the required behaviour is. If a simpler implementation can carry the learning, it should.
What I design and build
Four kinds of interactive learning
Simulations and practice
- Software simulations
- Procedural practice
- Guided demonstrations
- Systems training
- Equipment or interface interactions
- Safe practice environments
Advanced assessments
- Variable-driven assessment
- Complex scoring
- Question banks
- Confidence measures
- Remediation pathways
- Performance-based feedback
Custom interactive experiences
- Bespoke interfaces
- Animated processes
- Interactive diagrams
- Exploratory experiences
- Dashboards and menus
- Non-linear content structures
Technical depth
The means, not the pitch
Variables and conditional logic, triggers, states and layers, SCORM and xAPI packaging, and LMS deployment are means to a reliable experience, not the proposition. The interaction and learning-data prototypes on this site test that technical depth outside a client brief so a pattern can be understood before it is needed under delivery pressure.
Experience across the Articulate ecosystem
Experience that predates the brief
Six years inside the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (2015–2021) included building and maintaining a reusable Storyline production system for the regulator's design team — a style manual, authoring templates, specified components with documented states, and an icon and step-marker library used across the Flight Examiner Rating programme and wider CASA learning work.
That production-system discipline carried forward: more than sixty Storyline courses were redeveloped to a shared architecture at Independent Schools Queensland while a platform migration was happening in the same engagement. Recognised as an Articulate eLearning Hero. Editorial placeholder: Confirm earliest Articulate tools used and approximate dates, for a fuller account of the ecosystem history.
Storyline modernisation
Modernising existing Storyline content.
Long-lived course libraries accumulate assumptions. Modernisation starts by working out what an older project was built to do, then updating only what needs to change: accessibility, publishing, templates, interaction patterns or LMS compatibility rather than reflexively rebuilding the whole course.
- Legacy course audit
- Visual and interaction redesign
- Accessibility remediation
- Player and publishing updates
- Template consolidation
- SCORM or xAPI review
- LMS compatibility testing
Work to inspect
Selected Storyline work
Flight Examiner RatingCivil Aviation Safety AuthorityGovernment · aviation
Learning for people whose job is assessing other people
The national Flight Examiner Rating course and professional development program, for air transport, helicopter and general aviation examiners.
- Learning experience
- Content design
- Multimedia
Storyline production systemCivil Aviation Safety AuthorityGovernment · aviation
Creating a reusable Storyline production system
The style manual, templates, component specifications and asset libraries that let several designers produce work that looked like one program.
- Production systems
- Design systems
- Multimedia
Cornerstone → ISQ-hosted Moodle
- 3months
- Engagement
- 60+courses
- Rebuilt in parallel
Connect & LearnIndependent Schools QueenslandEducation
A platform migration and a course rebuild, at the same time
Moving an entire professional learning estate off Cornerstone while more than sixty Storyline courses were redeveloped around it, inside a single term.
- Platforms
- Content design
- Production systems
Interaction and learning-data prototypesSelf-directedResearch and development
Prototyping navigation, learner input and LMS reporting
Self-directed prototypes testing what a course can capture, report and navigate. Working demonstrations rather than client deliverables.
- Prototyping
- Learning data
- Interaction design
Two of these belong to the same six-year engagement. See the wider CASA work
Planning a complex Storyline project?
I can help determine whether Storyline is warranted, shape the learning approach, prototype the interaction and build a maintainable implementation ready for deployment.
Discuss a Storyline project