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Ep.2. Intersections in Instructional Design, Learning Experience Design, and User Experience Design

Our instructional design hero: Mandy Lin

Type of the Episode: Interview, Podcast

Time: 10 min 40 sec

Transcript

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About Mandy

Title: Instructional Designer / Learning Experience Designer

Xinyu (Mandy) Lin is a student from METALS (Master of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science) at Carnegie Mellon University. She is transitioning from a Special Education teacher to a Learning Experience Designer. She is passionate about integrating learning science theories with a human-centered design system. Her professional goal is to design meaningful learning experiences for learners of all abilities.

Fun fact: She has more than 10 Lego sets 

Personal website: https://www.xinyulin.me/

We discuss

In this interview, Mandy shared with us her insights on the following questions by using examples in her portfolio and referring to Briggs and Havlick’s model on the scientific problem-solving process (1976).

  1. Let’s get to know you a bit more at the beginning. Could you please share with us your background in ID, LXD, or UXD?
  2. What do you think are the differences between ID, LXD, UXD?
  3. Could you please give us some example(s) of your previous projects that can illustrate such differences or similarities? 
  4. To what extent do you think these differences may guide your work in ID, LXD, or UXD in the future?

During our interview, Mandy discussed the similarities between instructional design and user experience design by referring to the design process below in Figure 1.

Mandy Lin about intersections in instructional design, learning experience, and user learning experience
Figure 1. Mandy explains the similarities between instructional design and user experience design in terms of the design process by using the Briggs and Havlivk model (Dubberly, 2004)

Check out Mandy’s ID project and UXD project to learn more about her perspective on the differences between instructional design and user experience design (also see Figures 2 and 3).

  • Math education for college student
    Figure 2. Example of an ID Project (Mandy’s ID Project)
  • Backward design theory

Figure 2. Example of an ID Project (Mandy’s ID Project)

  • Example of a UXD Project
  • Example of a UXD Project

Figure 3. Example of a UXD Project (Mandy’s UXD Project)

References

Dubberly, H. (2004). How do you design? A compendium of models. Dubberly Design Office. Retrieved from http://www.dubberly.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/ddo_designprocess.pdf

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