I’ve been intentionally quiet for a bit. The end of the year always slows down my workload, and this time I used that space to step back and think about where I want my business to go in the next three years. What kind of clients I want to partner with. What kind of problems I want to help solve.

The most underrated Outlook feature? The Scheduling Assistant.

It shows who’s free... before you book that meeting.

Use it. Save a calendar. Save a friendship.

I'll be speaking at the Learning Leadership Conference this October in Orlando!

My session? “Rewiring Learning Experiences with Brain Science” 🧠
Think: fewer myths, more research, and smarter learning design.

Hope to see you there!

#InstructionalDesign #LXD #BrainScience

I'm working on choosing my first work related book of 2025. Anyone have recommendations for recent ID books that have come out that I need to check out?

As a freelancer, projects are wrapping up for the end of the year and in addition to the time spent making sure everything for year-end is done for my business, this free time is also great for reflection and goal setting. I will be spending a lot of time in the next week or two journaling.

So today I dipped my toes back into the coding waters and played around with the css file of a published storyline project just to see what I could affect on the menu. It was more fun than I expected, and honestly makes me wish I had more time to play around with that kind of stuff!

You only get one 'first post' on a platform, & the pressure was too much—so I just wrote this 😂

I'm Tristin—Instructional Designer & D&D nerd. I turn complex ideas into engaging learning (less death by PowerPoint, more edu-tainment.)

Can't promise my posts will all be about ID, maybe that's good?