Science-Based Content Design©
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Learning
Success
The InfoDev Academy is an online learning and collaboration community for people who create complex, technical, instructional, and high-value content.
Inspire Action• Facilitate Success• Invest in Yourself• Make More Money• Demonstrate Your Value• Advance Your Career
The modern world revolves around information – information presented as various forms of content, such as courses, manuals, spreadsheets, websites, videos, presentations, proposals, user interfaces, and more.
It takes specialized skills to create effective content – not everyone can do it. At the same time, the ability to create effective content is critical in all areas of modern business, regardless of field, genre, or medium. The InfoDev Academy is all about helping you develop this specialized expertise and championing your role so you can get resources, authority, recognition, and reward that you deserve.
We focus on high-value, complex, and instructional content – content based on verifiable and actionable information that helps people accomplish a task. Using our approach, you can create content that is not only relevant, timely, accurate, complete, and clear, but it is also compelling, engaging, and beautiful.
The InfoDev Academy helps people develop high-value, complex, and instructional content that facilitates success for individuals, organizations, and information developers. We champion an interdisciplinary, multimedia approach that works across fields, genres, and media.
Value
Improving the Lives of InfoDev Pros
The InfoDev Academy has been inspired by the desire to improve the lives of information developers, their end users, and their organizations.
We imagine a world in which content professionals achieve a new level of financial, career, and personal success through better content, improved processes, and a deep paradigm shift that recognizes the critical role we play in modern business. We are committed to empowering content professionals through two main channels: community and courses.
Community
InfoDev Insiders
Connect, share, teach, and learn!
Our online community is for anyone who creates, compiles, curates, or otherwise prepares verifiable, fact-based information meant to be usable.
Priceless Opportunities
- Connect with other content professionals.
- Join special-interest groups.
- Upload, organize, and share media.
- Keep up to date with the Activity feed.
- Collaborate in discussion forums.
- Draw on expert knowledge to solve real-world problems.
- Participate in live events.
Facilitates a uniquely interdisciplinary approach designed to advance our profession and your career.
Courses
Science-Based Content Design
Create content that really works!
Our first eLearning program teaches you how to create content that aligns with the way that human beings naturally perceive and process information.
Invest in yourself!
- Apply the skills you already have.
- Learn a practical, scalable methodology.
- Cut through common myths.
- Discover methods anyone can use.
- Start with carefully explained foundational concepts.
- Practice with clear, step-by-step instructions.
- Get personal guidance and support.
Teaches and embodies the principles of science-based content design so you can both see and learn.
Usable
Beautiful
Create content that is truly user centric.
The core focus of the InfoDev Academy is empowering information developers to create content that benefits both end users and organizations. We do this by focusing on design for usability. And research across disciplines shows that, when content is usable, it is also beautiful.
Research* shows that there is a clear and consistent correlation between the degree of perceived usability and the degree of perceived aesthetic quality – and that these factors, in turn, affect the degree of trust, credibility, and overall quality experienced by users.
*References
- Hamborg, Kai-Christoph, Julia Hülsmann, and Kai Kaspar. “The Interplay between Usability and Aesthetics: More Evidence for the ‘What Is Usable Is Beautiful’ Notion.” Advances in Human-Computer Interaction 2014 (January 1, 2014): 15:15. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/946239
- Avram, Abel. “Is Beautiful Usable, or Is It the Other Way Around?” InfoQ. Accessed February 22, 2021. https://www.infoq.com/news/2012/05/Aesthetics-Usability/.
- Lindgaard, Gitte. “Aesthetics, Visual Appeal, Usability and User Satisfaction: What Do the User’s Eyes Tell the User’s Brain?” Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society 5 (January 1, 2007). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26486257_Aesthetics_Visual_Appeal_Usability_and_User_Satisfaction_What_Do_the_User’s_Eyes_Tell_the_User’s_Brain.
- Linghammar, Frida. Usability and Aesthetics: Is Beautiful More Usable. Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2007. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A23831&dswid=7683.
- Miner, William. “What Is Simple Is Usable: Is Beauty Truly A Predictor Of Percieved Usability?” August 31, 2011. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/29509.
- Sheehan, Robert, and Stephanie Sheehan. “Beautiful and Usable.” Boston, MA. USA: Unitec Institute of Technology, 2015. https://www.researchbank.ac.nz/handle/10652/3309.
- Tractinsky, Noam, Adi S. Katz, and Dror Ikar. “What Is Beautiful Is Usable.” Interacting with Computers 13 (2000): 127–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0953-5438(00)00031-X.
- Tuch, Alexandre, Sandra P. Roth, Kasper Hornbæk, Klaus Opwis, and Javier A. Bargas-Avila. “Is Beautiful Really Usable? Toward Understanding the Relation Between Usability, Aesthetics, and Affect in HCI.” Computers in Human Behavior 28 (2012): 1596–1607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.03.024.
- Tullis, Thomas S, and Cheryl M Tullis. “Statistical Analyses of E-Commerce Websites: Can a Site Be Usable and Beautiful?” In Proceedings of HCI International 2007 Conference, 5. Beijing, China, 2007. http://uxmetricsgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Analyses-of-Ecommerce-Websites.pdf.
Content
Transformation
The core focus of the InfoDev Academy is empowering information developers to create content that truly benefits both end users and organizations. With more effective content, we can we improve the lives of our end users and raise awareness about the critical role that content-based communications plays in all corners of modern life.
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