Instructional Designers Editing and Proofreading Services

Instructional design is a specification discipline. The designer rarely builds the thing; they produce a document that a developer, a video team, a graphic designer and a subject expert all work from, usually without meeting each other. Everything the designer decided and did not write down gets decided again by whoever hits it first, and the version that emerges is a compromise between four people's assumptions about what was intended.

We edit what instructional designers and learning experience teams produce — design documents and course blueprints, storyboards and screen specifications, learning objectives and assessment plans, subject matter expert interview guides and content requests, media briefs for video, animation and graphics, interaction specifications and branching logic, prototype and review documentation, style guides for a programme of learning, development handover documentation, review and sign-off processes with stakeholders, accessibility specifications, pilot and evaluation plans, and reusable template documentation. Our editors work on the documents other people build from.

The storyboard is the artefact everything downstream depends on, and its recurring failure is describing intent rather than specifying output. A cell reading "animation showing the process" gives an animator no way to know how many steps, what is labelled, what moves, what the learner is meant to notice, or how long it runs — so they build something plausible, it comes back wrong, and the revision cost lands on a budget that assumed one round. We write storyboards so each screen specifies the on-screen text verbatim rather than in summary, the narration as a script rather than as a topic, the visual as a described sequence with the number of elements and the labels, the interaction with every state — what happens on correct, on incorrect, on second attempt, on skip — and the accessibility requirements at the point they apply rather than as a blanket note. We also make the review cycle explicit in the document: who signs off what, at which stage, and what is closed to change afterwards, because unsigned storyboards are how a subject expert reopens the structure during build.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including client material and courses in development. We are editors rather than instructional designers, and we offer no view on learning design, methodology or accessibility conformance. What we can do is make specifications unambiguous for the people who build from them.