Clark Quinn

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Performance Support and Bad Design

Clark Quinn

Here’s a story about where performance support would’ve made a task much easier. The other day, I had a classic need for performance support. The support section of the site did list the error codes, but numerically, not by icon. If you’re gonna use icons, provide a guide! And, as always, the text.

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ID Support Thyself

Clark Quinn

Here, I look at tools, asking IDs to ‘support thyself’ As usual, the transcript: One of the things I do is help organizations improve their design processes. I expect that most orgs do have process support, but…baking in learning science seems not to be there. So here I’m exhorting IDs to ‘Support Thyself’ .

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Another model for support

Clark Quinn

And these approaches did provide away to develop the organization’s abilities to develop better learning. So this is another model for support for developing at least the learning side of the equation. Just trying to think of models that can support improvement, and that’s what I’m trying to push.

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Support for moving forward

Clark Quinn

So naturally I wondered what sort of support could be needed to move forward. So I wondered if perhaps some specific support would assist. And I’ve tried to price them so that they’re not too dear, too hard to get approval for, but provide maximum value for minimal investment. Perhaps it seems too overwhelming?

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Performance support-ing learning

Clark Quinn

In a post last week, I mentioned how Gloria Gery’s original vision of performance support not only was supposed to help you in the moment, it was also – at least in principle – of developing you over time. And yet I have yet to see it. So what am I talking about? Let’s use an example.

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A richer suite of support

Clark Quinn

While it’s easy to talk about how we need to support the transition from novice to expert, it might help to be a little more detailed. While it’s easy to say that the role of formal learning wanes, and the role of informal learning ramps up, what are the types of support we might look to?

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Performance Support isn’t (or shouldn’t be) cheap either!

Clark Quinn

Then, as a consequence of my subsequent posts on social first and performance support second , I was in a discussion where the question was shouldn’t performance support be first. So why do I say Performance Support (PS) shouldn’t be cheap? First, there’s a lot that goes into good job aid design.