About the Author

Julie Dirksen is an independent consultant and instructional designer with more than 15 years experience creating highly interactive e-learning experiences for clients from Fortune 500 companies and technology startups to grant-funded research initiatives. She has been an adjunct faculty member in the Visualization Department at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she created and taught courses in project management, instructional design, and cognitive psychology. She gets ridiculously excited about things like learning applications of loss aversion or the way glucose is regulated in the brain and she’s happiest whenever she gets to learn something new. You can find her online at www.usablelearning.com.