Dive into the human-centered, agile design process we used for our pilot cohort of Tangram Labs – the Strategy Lab. Enabled by an awesome learning platform, we created a structure that flexed with our learners’ needs. They were able to experiment in a safe place, gain momentum toward their goals, and improve their teams on their terms.

Tangram adds a connection opportunity to a culminating virtual event — a highly-interactive game played simultaneously by thousands of people.

The traditional vision for a F2F learning event is often a facilitator or guest speaker with slides guiding a discussion. Tangram walks you through our process for taking on the F2F challenge with a more engaging design. Our design increases opportunities to learn by doing with elements like an event theme, networking opportunities, and purely social moments.

Using our lightweight design process, you can keep projects from becoming overdesigned and overdeveloped. It’s the best of agile, human-centered design, and rapid development, all rolled into one process. What’s the minimum viable product you need? Start by asking your learners.

Designing learning frameworks for executive-level learners comes with a unique set of challenges and requirements. See how Tangram’s partnership with a client in this situation brought about a perfect solution: podcasts.

A recent design workshop for an eLearning program brought Where’s Waldo? to the table to inspire the design behind the context-based scenario application.

In a routine design workshop for an Emerging Leader program, a simple prompt for SMEs unleashed a wave of unexpected golden responses. Seizing the opportunity, we turned them into a pivotal program design feature for increased connection with our learners.

Follow these strategies for collaborating with your SMEs and avoiding roadblocks during your instructional design process.

Check out our three tips for designing a workshop that’s exactly what your team needs to finish the year strong.

We need to think of our work systems as learning systems.

Beyond their obvious function, holiday gift guides are brilliant from a design perspective! Let’s examine one technique that has great potential for learning design.

Our design boost projects are collaborative and inspiring for everyone involved, including us. Here are the five questions we tackle together.

Human-centered design is less about what process you follow and more about how you engage your audience.

Struggling to incorporate social learning when social interaction is still…limited?

Our new reality is a chance to rethink our training approach — permanently.