The Luna LXD Flight Loghttps://lunalxd.com.au/blogMonthly notes on learning experience design from Luna LXD.en-au AI tutors in course design: scaffolding, not shortcutshttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-ai-tutors-scaffoldinghttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-ai-tutors-scaffoldingWed, 01 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +1000An AI assistant can be the tutor your self-paced course never had — or a machine for skipping the thinking. The difference is design. Beyond the smile sheet: measuring what learners actually kepthttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-measuring-retentionhttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-measuring-retentionMon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +1000Completion rates and satisfaction scores tell you a course was tolerated. Here's how to find out whether it worked. Scenario-based learning: decisions beat descriptionshttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-scenario-based-learninghttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-scenario-based-learningFri, 01 May 2026 09:00:00 +1000People don't fail because they couldn't recite the process. They fail at the moment of decision — so that's the moment to rehearse. Working with SMEs: extracting the 20% that mattershttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-working-with-smeshttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-working-with-smesWed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +1000Subject-matter experts don't hand you a course. They hand you everything they know — and the design job is subtraction. From storyboard to Storyline: what actually happens in a buildhttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-storyboard-to-storylinehttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-storyboard-to-storylineSun, 01 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +1000Clients often picture eLearning development as “typing the content into the tool.” The real work — and the value — sits in the decisions made well… Constructive alignment: the quiet discipline behind courses that workhttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-constructive-alignmenthttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-constructive-alignmentSun, 01 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +1000If the outcome, the activity and the assessment don't point at the same thing, learners optimise for the assessment — and the outcome loses. Build levels, explained: how to scope interactivityhttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-build-levelshttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-build-levelsThu, 01 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +1000“Make it interactive” is the most expensive sentence in eLearning — because it can mean almost anything. Build levels turn that vague wish into a… Video in eLearning: when to film, when to animate, when to skip ithttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-video-in-elearninghttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-video-in-elearningMon, 01 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +1000Video is the most expensive sentence you can produce. Spend it where seeing genuinely beats reading. Accessibility isn't a checklist — it's a design constrainthttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-accessibility-constrainthttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-accessibility-constraintSat, 01 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +1000Treating accessibility as a final QA pass is how you end up retrofitting (badly) the most valuable, most interactive parts of your course. The good… Microlearning that fits real workdayshttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-microlearning-real-workdayshttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-microlearning-real-workdaysWed, 01 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +1000Nobody has an hour. Everyone has eleven minutes on a break, a commute, a gap between meetings. Design for the time people actually have. Why your compliance training keeps failing (and what to do about it)https://lunalxd.com.au/journal-compliance-traininghttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-compliance-trainingMon, 01 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +1000Mandatory training has a reputation, and it's earned. But the failure is rarely the policy — it's the order you present it in. Clinically accurate ≠ boringhttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-clinically-accuratehttps://lunalxd.com.au/journal-clinically-accurateFri, 01 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +1000There's a stubborn belief that serious clinical content has to look serious — meaning grey, dense and joyless. It's wrong, and it's costing you…