Field Guides

Practical methods for better design decisions.

Field Guides are audits, frameworks, checklists, and practitioner tools for learning designers who need clearer thinking before they build another course, template, workflow, or stakeholder-approved monster.

03 Available now
07 Guide categories
01 Coming next

The method layer

Field Guides sit between the big idea and the actual build.

Perspectives explain the argument. Resource Lab gives you patterns and tools. Field Guides help you diagnose the work, ask better questions, critique with more precision, and make stronger design decisions before polishing the wrong thing.

Ask

What decision, behavior, or performance need does this actually support?

Map

What context, friction, workflow, support, and evidence shape the outcome?

Build

What learning experience would actually help people perform with more clarity?

Available guides

Start with the guides that make the design conversation clearer.

Each guide is built around a real learning design problem: feedback, accessibility, systems thinking, evaluation, workflow support, or better stakeholder alignment.

Guide 02 Available

Accessibility + Visual QA

Accessibility + Visual QA Field Guide

A checklist-style guide for reviewing color, contrast, labels, state changes, motion, visual meaning, interaction cues, and usability risks.

Accessibility Visual QA Review
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Guide 03 Available

Learning Systems

Learning Systems Field Guide

A practical guide for looking beyond the course and mapping the people, tools, workflows, supports, risks, and success signals around learning.

Systems Workflow Strategy
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Guide categories

Organized around real learning design decisions.

The library will expand across the places where learning designers need practical methods, better questions, and sharper judgment.

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Feedback + Coaching

Improve how feedback redirects, explains, reinforces, and builds judgment.

02

Learning Systems

Map the supports, workflows, tools, and conditions around learning.

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Scenario + Judgment Design

Design practice that reflects real decisions, tradeoffs, consequences, and ambiguity.

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Accessibility + Visual QA

Review contrast, states, labels, interaction cues, motion, and visual meaning.

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AI-Assisted Workflows

Use AI to accelerate the work without outsourcing the thinking.

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Designer Enablement

Give learning teams stronger review habits, reusable methods, and clearer standards.

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Evaluation + Evidence

Connect learning work to behavior, signals, outcomes, and credible measurement.

Coming next

Making Kirkpatrick Practical

A field guide for using Kirkpatrick as a design and measurement system instead of an after-the-fact reporting ritual. Because smile sheets are not a strategy. Shocking, I know.

Level 1

Reaction that measures relevance, clarity, usefulness, and learner trust.

Level 2

Learning evidence connected to recall, decisions, confidence, and application.

Level 3

Behavior evidence that shows whether learning transfers into the workflow.

Level 4

Results alignment that connects learning to business outcomes credibly.

Learning Rewired Lab

Better learning work starts with better design questions.

Use Field Guides when you need the method behind the build. Use Resource Lab when you need patterns, prototypes, and practical examples.