Tools and checklists
Here's a complete list of the tools and checklists on the site. Please suggest others that you have, that you need, or that you'd just like to discuss. If you've got something ready, get in contact or upload it here.
- Design constaints tool - helps you map out the constraints to your design. Supports the pattern "Understand the constraints".
- Learner profiling grid and examples - useful for helping you envisage how different kinds of people will use whatever it is you're designing. Supports the pattern "Examine your learners' context".
- Guidelines for carrying out learner observation - some basic guidelines to help you find out what your learners really need. Supports the pattern "Examine your learners' context".
- Guidelines for using learner stories and anecdotes - a checklist to help you elicit stories from your learners, during a research phase. Supports the pattern "Examine your learners' context".
- Engagement tool - a matrix, based on advertising theory, that identifies different types of engagement with a product or service. Supports the pattern "Find out what people like".
- The four pleasures tool - a checklist to help you consider how to make your product or service enjoyable. Supports the pattern "Find out what people like".
- Learning strategy worksheet - a checklist for developing a learning strategy. Supports the pattern "Develop a learning strategy".
- Thinking modes tool - a matrix/checklist identifying where particular thinking styles are appropriate during the design process. Supports the pattern "Think flexibly".