Design Reflection

Developing Mindful Work strengthened my ability to design learning around decisions, not information. Building the experience as a realistic workday required me to consider not only what learners needed to know about workplace stress, but when that knowledge would become meaningful and how learners could practice using it. The project also deepened my experience using Storyline interactions, variables, and contextual feedback to create an experience in which learner choices drive the instruction while reflection supports transfer to the workplace.

Design Approach

• Scenario-based learning places stress-management concepts within realistic workplace situations

• Reflective learning encourages learners to consider their own responses to workplace stress

• Decision-based practice gives learners opportunities to choose responses and observe their implications

• Progressive challenge introduces competing demands and interruptions throughout the simulated workday

Key Design Decisions

• Realistic workday structure provides a coherent context rather than presenting stress-management strategies as isolated information

• Branching decisions allow learners to practice responding to workplace stress rather than simply identifying correct strategies

• Storyline variables and triggers support learner choices and changes in the experience based on those decisions

• Contextual feedback connects learner decisions with potential consequences and alternative approaches

• Reflection prompts encourage learners to connect the simulated situations to their own workplace experiences

• Minimal content presentation keeps the emphasis on application and decision-making rather than information delivery

Featured Deliverables

• Interactive Storyline Module
  Scenario-based learning experience built in Articulate Storyline 360

• Branching Workplace Scenario
  Decision points and feedback embedded throughout a simulated workday