The owner of this Serious Comic is the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and the managing group responsible for project development and writing the content (the dialog script) is the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center. From concept sketches, interface design decisions, artwork, storyboarding, and anything that would make for a good read.įirst, some background. Over the next several weeks I’m going to attempt to share some of the bits and pieces of how we’re putting this all together. In itself that’s exciting to know because this is not a proprietary project that only a handful of eyes will get to see.

They graciously gave me the green light to share the development as the end product will eventually be available for the general public. Which I still intend on doing, but recently I asked my client if they’d approve of me writing about the process as we go along. I started documenting the snot out of the process with the goal of writing a case study when completed. If anyone is interested in designing a project like this be prepared to double the normal effort in production. All of which is in addition to typical instructional design approaches. No secret I have learned a lot about designing and developing a project like this from storyboarding to art direction, to script writing and more. This is not my first project in this style, but it is the first of this scale. As this genre becomes more popular in the world of elearning, perhaps it needs an official category name.

It’s a serious story and you will learn something. It’s a scenario told in a graphic novel style. That’s a mouthful! It’s not really a ‘novel’ although it is a serious topic, and it’s really not elearning rather more of an awareness piece. In an earlier post I introduced a project I started this year – an Interactive Graphic Novel style Serious Comic for elearning.

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