Design and Development
Learning Experience Design
What is Learning Experience Design?
Learning Experience Design (LXD) focuses on designing learning around the learner’s experience, context, and real-world application. It considers how learners feel, think, and behave before, during, and after learning, creating experiences that are engaging, relevant, and practical.
Why does Learning Experience Design matter?
Learning fails when it feels disconnected from real work or difficult to apply. Learning Experience Design supports confidence, motivation, and transfer into the workplace. Emergent Learning is fantastic at designing learning experiences that feel intuitive, purposeful, and grounded in real work.
What does Learning Experience Design include?
What organisational or strategic elements influence learning experience design?
Learning experiences are shaped by organisational culture, learner expectations, and operational realities. Emergent Learning assists organisations to design experiences that respect these contexts.
What learning design considerations shape a learning experience?
Learning Experience Design considers pacing, interaction, feedback, emotion, and cognitive load. Emergent Learning designs experiences that feel supportive rather than overwhelming.
What delivery methods support learning experience design?
Learning Experience Design applies across workshops, eLearning, blended programs, coaching, and scenario-based learning. Emergent Learning ensures experiences feel cohesive across formats.
What results or outcomes does learning experience design produce?
Well-designed experiences lead to higher engagement, stronger confidence, improved application, and more consistent performance.
What partnership or support elements are required?
Effective LXD involves collaboration between designers, SMEs, facilitators, and learners. Emergent Learning supports this collaboration through clear translation of expertise into experience.
What investment considerations influence learning experience design?
Effective LXD involves collaboration between designers, SMEs, facilitators, and learners. Emergent Learning supports this collaboration through clear translation of expertise into experience.
What does an effective learning experience design process look like?
Where do I start with learning experience design?
Start by understanding the learner, their context, and moments of application. Emergent Learning helps organisations uncover and design for these moments.
What is involved in designing a learning experience?
The process includes discovery, learner analysis, experience mapping, design, development, testing, and refinement. Emergent Learning simplifies this while maintaining quality.
What does the learning experience design process produce?
It produces engaging learning journeys that guide learners through exploration, practice, reflection, and application.
What is the expected outcome of learning experience design?
The outcome is learning that feels meaningful, usable, and supportive, leading to improved confidence, accuracy, and performance.
How can organisations improve learning experience design?
How do we avoid learning that feels transactional?
Design for experience rather than completion. Emergent Learning has been praised for creating learning that feels human.
How can we design for real-world application?
Build scenarios, practice opportunities, and reflection into learning. Emergent Learning connects learning to real decisions and actions.
How do we support learners beyond the learning event?
Provide reinforcement, prompts, and performance support. Emergent Learning designs experiences that extend beyond the event.
How do we know if a learning experience is effective?
Look for engagement, confidence, application, and behaviour change rather than completion alone.
Examples of Learning Experience Design in Practice
A leadership program designed around real workplace conversations.\nAn eLearning module using scenarios and feedback.\nA blended program combining workshops, reflection, and practice.\nAn induction experience supporting learners across their first weeks.