{"id":229,"date":"2026-11-11T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/?p=229"},"modified":"2026-11-11T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:34:31","slug":"my-design-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/my-design-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"My Design Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/2026\/11\/11-my-design-identity-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-232 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/2026\/11\/11-my-design-identity-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/2026\/11\/11-my-design-identity-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/2026\/11\/11-my-design-identity-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/2026\/11\/11-my-design-identity-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/2026\/11\/11-my-design-identity.png 1600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming from a background in computer science, I have been working at the medical faculty of a Swiss university for the past six years. I was hired to produce learning videos for medical education from scripts designed by someone else. I had the technical skills to make them, but no experience in instructional design, and I did not think of myself as a designer at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a lifelong learner, I rely heavily on video, mostly through YouTube, to learn what interests me. I believe the affordances of this medium make it an effective way to convey knowledge where text alone is not enough. When I create learning experiences, I value clarity, because the learner&#8217;s attention is a limited resource; accuracy, because in clinical skills education an error in a demonstration travels into practice; and a good fit between medium and content: video where it adds something, not video by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I move further into the MALAT program, I am noticing how much my production choices shape what the learner notices and remembers. For six years I worked at the end of the process, turning other people&#8217;s designs into finished products, and I was already making design decisions without the vocabulary to name them. I see myself as a practitioner entering instructional design from the production side, curious about everything that happens before the camera starts rolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Transparency statement : AI assistance was used for grammar checking, phrasing, and final language polish.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from a background in computer science, I have been working at the medical faculty of a Swiss university for the past six years. I was hired to produce learning videos for medical education from scripts designed by someone else. I had the technical skills to make them, but no experience in instructional design, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/my-design-identity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Design Identity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru319\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}