This document discusses using Adobe InDesign for rapid development of instructor guides and student workbooks. It outlines how InDesign features like templates, master pages, styles, and libraries can help with consistency and reuse. The team used InDesign along with linked Creative Cloud apps like Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat to lay out over 100 guides and workbooks for publishing online. Through templates, common elements, and collaboration tools in InDesign, the team was able to efficiently produce the materials despite having low experience.

1. INTRODUCTION TO INDESIGN &
RAPID DEVELOPMENT
John Allan / Keith Hackett

2. OVERVIEW
•Our team
•InDesign considerations
•InDesign & Rapid Development features
•What we have learned / Rapid Dev

3. OUR TEAM
New team
New project
Low experience baseline

4. INDESIGN
Adobe Creative Cloud suite
Creates:
Brochures
Books
Magazines
Posters
Electronic versions of all

5. INDESIGN – CREATIVE CLOUD ADVANTAGES
Bridge – File Sharing
Illustrator – vector drawings
Photoshop – image optimization/creation
Acrobat DC – publishing

6. INDESIGN – WHY?
Layout instructor guides/ student workbooks
Consistency (master pages)
Recyclability
Small file size
Graphic heavy Word docs too large
Publish online

7. INDESIGN

8. INDESIGN –OUR PROJECT

9. INDESIGN – OUR PROJECT
100+ instructor guides
100+ student workbooks
LMS hosted Learning objects

10. RAPID DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT
Collaboration
Communication
Coordination

11. INDESIGN & RAPID DEVELOPMENT FEATURES

12. RAPID DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT
•Templates
•CC Libraries
•Master Pages
• Footers/ headers/ alignment
•Swatches

13. TEMPLATES

14. CC LIBRARIES

15. MASTER PAGES

16. ALIGNMENT
OF
ELEMENTS

17. SWATCHES

18. PARAGRAPH STYLES

19. CHARACTER STYLES

20. WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED / RAPID DEV
What we knew but learned the hard way

21. RAPID DEVELOPMENT
“Signed off” documents before development

22. TEMPLATE – COMMON PAGES AND ELEMENTS
Pagination
Footers/headers
Front page / back page
Table of contents
Glossary
Organizers
Icons
Tables

23. IMAGES
Sourcing
Creating (drawing, photography)
Stock (Shutterstock)
Vectors vs photographs
Who provides what?

24. MEDIA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
Common storage server/ resource*
Folder structure*
File naming*
Tagging*
*all must be aware and trained

25. SME ACCESS
Regular access to Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
Informal
Formal

26. QR CODES
QR codes link to external
resources
Saves including unnecessary
details in documents

27. INCOPY
Integrates with Adobe InDesign
Allows non-developers to:
Review text
Edit text
Edit media

28. BATCH PROCESSING
Photoshop “Batch processing” of images
(using custom Actions)

29. TEAM
COACHING

30. TEAM COACHING
•Improve communication
•Improve Soft skills
•Focus on goals
•Individualized assistance with teamwork

31. KEEP EVERYONE IN THE LOOP
•Updates
•Meetings
•Email policy

32. QUESTIONS & THANK YOU