Interior Design Styles - eLearning Course
Modality
eLearning
Assessment
Authoring Tools
Articulate Storyline 360
Adobe Photoshop
Skybox AI
Business Need
As part of new hire onboarding for teams at brick-and-mortar retail locations, the in-house Design Services team must learn to differentiate between popular interior design styles and key elements of each in order to match the appropriate design style with each client’s preferences.
Audience
Entry-level Interior Designers
Challenges
Learners needed to grasp foundational interior design principles prior to starting technical trainings on interior design software programs. The time for training is limited to before/after store hours, so asynchronous learning is ideal. The strategy team also requested a scalable solution to add design styles as trends change.
Solutions
For this project, I partnered with SMEs (high-performing, tenured Interior Designers) to determine which design styles and key elements were most in demand at retail locations. Since the learner profile was for creatives, I chose to design a program that brought in storytelling elements and rich visuals. To create an immersive experience, I used Skybox AI to render 360 images of styled interiors, then imported those images into Photoshop to polish before adding to Storyline.
Learners select between two avatars. I used a custom variable and states to cascade the selected tour guide throughout the course.
This slide explains the purpose of the training. Once learners are ready to continue, they click the UP arrow on the elevator to begin an animation sequence and progress the lesson forward.
Each floor of the condo building has three floor plans showcasing different interior design styles. This first set of interactions displays the most common styles.
On this slide, I used states to create an open door for clicked/visited condos. I did pull in background imagery to show through the open sliver of door (this is an old screenshot).
These 360 images were generated using Skybox AI. I imported the base files into Photoshop to polish. Within each image, there are 5 hot spots users must click, which highlight key elements of the design style.
Once the hot spot interaction ends, the learner visits this recap slide with the key points of the style. When ready to proceed, they click the exit door.
Here's an additional 360 image with hot spot.
At the end of each floor's tour, the learner completes a brief knowledge check before proceeding to the next floor.
Program Results
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Goal: 30 minutes total for course completion
Actual: 22 minutes average
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Goal: 85% pass rate
Actual: 93% pass rate
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Goal: Designers will indicate client’s interior design style preference(s) on 100% of intake forms.
Actual: 94% (33 out of 35) Designers indicated 30-day post-training.
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Goal: Increased speed to proficiency in Design Fundamentals from 0-30 days post-training.
Actual: Expectations met, per stakeholders.
Learner Feedback
“This course was so fun!!! I loved exploring the different rooms and seeing what items I could find.”
“The E-learning helped me to understand what the important parts are for the different rooms like colors, textures and furniture styles. After this course I could make the 3D renderings more easily because I knew the pieces to include for styles, especially traditional and contemporary.”
“I’d like to see more design styles with mixed elements, for example Neo-Traditional or Eclectic.”