May has officially entered the chat, and it brought luggage, graduation plans, and a very full calendar. This month is packed: three conference trips in three different countries, a full calendar of graduation events for my youngest, and my oldest coming home from school for the summer.

It’s a lot. And it’s also a pretty wonderful pile of things to be grateful for. I'd love to hear from you. What’s one thing you’re grateful for today?

Thanks for reading!

Supported by iSpring

Getting learners to care is half the battle. This May 14th webinar shows where engagement usually breaks down and shares 9 practical ways to build more buy-in without rebuilding your courses from scratch. Smart, useful, and worth a look.

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Your Next Course Might Not Need an Authoring Tool

Anthropic built Claude Design for people with no design background who need something visual, fast. Here's why you should be paying attention.

Tim Slade uploaded a 21-page, development-ready storyboard and a client style guide. Thirty-seven screens of content, interactions, and scenarios. What came back was a full-course menu structure, scenario-based interactions, and an experiential simulation. Published. Hosted. Done!

I tested Claude Design myself with a slide deck and it gave me the best AI-generated slides I've ever seen. Not even close. And I've tried loads of these things.

For twenty years, Articulate and Captivate bundled three things: design, interaction building, and SCORM publishing. Claude Design just handled the first two. Better.

The tracking gap is real — for now, but not likely for long. Build Capable's XCL converts any web-hosted content into a trackable Learning Link, with xAPI data flowing to your LRS. No LMS. No user accounts. Point it at a Claude Design URL. Done. And Jeff Batt is already building a tool to close the SCORM and cmi5 gap entirely. That is definitely a signal worth paying attention to.

Also supported by Neovation

I’m always looking for AI sessions that go beyond “look what this tool can do” and get into the actual work of L&D. This one does. If you want practical AI workflows that can help you design faster, think sharper, and still keep the human craft where it belongs, this is worth your time.

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Worth your attention
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Can AI replace traditional eLearning authoring tools?

Check out Tim Slade's experiment with using Claude Design to build an elearning course. You gotta see this!

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​See how Tim tapped Claude Design for this course →​

Claude Design Basics | Master 95% in 10 Minutes

This video breaks down everything you need to know about Claude Design in 10 minutes. See how to build a landing page, a pitch deck, and more, all from a few sentences. No code. No design experience. Just Claude.

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Claude Design

This is the official launch announcement and video from Anthropic introducing Claude Design.

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The Bottom Line

Two weeks old. Research preview. What Tim showed isn't a finished workflow, but it's where our field is heading. Those who get fluent with this stack now will be working in a fundamentally different way while everyone else waits on their authoring tool vendor.

Haven't tried Claude Design yet? Stop reading. Go do it today. It's included with a Claude Pro subscription or higher. You gotta see this for yourself!

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📍Where I'll be next

• ​LearnTec, May 5-7 (Karlsruhe, Germany)
• ​ATD International Conference, May 17-20 (Los Angeles, CA)
• ​Canadian eLearning Conference, May 29 (Niagara Falls, ON)
• ​Why Great Training Gets Ignored​, June 24 (Online)
• ​ATD Core4, Sept 29-Oct 1(Indianapolis, IN)

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