Day 7: Seven Swans a-Swimming
Dec 26, 2025Designing for Flow, Not Friction
The image of seven swans a-swimming is one of effortless motion. Smooth. Graceful. Continuous.
That’s exactly the feeling today’s gift is designed to create.
Day 7 of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways features an interactive video experience created in Articulate Storyline by Jeffrey Riley, along with a practical PDF guide that shows you how to build one yourself.
In learning design, video often becomes a passive experience. People press play, watch, and move on. This gift challenges that pattern by showing how video can become something learners move through, not just consume.
In the experience, learners encounter visual cues and embedded questions placed at intentional moments in the video. They pause, reflect, respond, and then continue swimming forward. The result is a learning flow that feels natural rather than interrupted.
The accompanying PDF breaks down exactly how the experience was built, from layering images and triggers, to cue points, lightbox questions, and results slides. It’s practical, approachable, and designed for instructional designers who want to move beyond static video without overengineering.
The Seven Swans come to life here as flow.
No jerky stops.
No cognitive whiplash.
Just intentional movement through content, interaction, and reflection.
If you’ve been looking for a way to make video learning more active, more meaningful, and more engaging, this gift gives you both the example and the how-to.
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