Zombies and eLearning Heroes #393
This is a Halloween special post, as I actually have another (old eLearning Heroes challenge) work out loud for tomorrow this week! But this was the most current eLearning Heroes Challenge: #393, which I kept randomly numbering #398. 😂
The prompt this week was Halloween themed, asking us to “This week, your challenge is to share a how-to guide for surviving Halloween or a zombie apocalypse.” I took Max Brooks as my inspiration and used an excerpt from The Zombie Survival Guide as my “SME content” to design a health PSA training on the zombie virus:
This screen shows a tabbed interaction for the timeline progression of symptoms. I would probably give the tabs more advanced states if taking more time with this challenge and expanding upon it. Right now, they’re just “Selected” if currently showing or “Normal”.
Alt Text: On the left it says, “Progression of Symptoms in Solanum ‘Zombie’ Virus” in a title font over a picture of a female zombie, bloody with her arms up. There is a timeline to the right of her showing the times: Hours 1, 5, 8, 11, 16, 20, and 23 as points on the timeline. Finally, a tab for hour 5 is open and shows a picture of a person holding a thermometer and the text, “The next symptom, occurring at 5 hours or slightly before in most cases, is a mild to moderate fever. The person begins to develop fever (99-103 degrees F) and some experience other symptoms such as chills, slight dementia, vomiting, and acute pain in the joints.”
I am keeping myself under 5 hours with these, including the “Work Out Loud” video for the blog, so I couldn’t fully put together the PSA videos or find all the perfect images I wanted, but I think I got the deadpan idea of Brooks’s books across in the training. This is a pretty simple one — no fancy elements really, just good clean zombie fun! I thought about a dial for the timeline, but I find those aren’t terribly accessible and they are fiddly and take me longer than the simple tabbed interaction I went with. I didn’t see a real benefit besides showing I can use a dial (I can and I have, and maybe I will for another challenge, but they’re usually an accessibility issue if not designed really carefully with an alternative means of interaction).
Time Clocked: The full 5 hours this time, sourcing the right images and coming up with an idea was a big part of it! I got pretty into it.
Here are some design thoughts:
