Vyond: Explain Complex Ideas With Animation

Driven by an always-on, mobile culture, learners today have an “instant gratification” mindset and are easily distracted by email notifications, text message buzzes, and instant messages. For instructional designers this means every second counts when fighting for attention, focus, and retention. How do you cope with everyday distractions and deliver engaging content, especially when that content is complex (or worse, dry and unexciting)? With animated video. But what if you don’t have extensive knowledge of animation design? Fear not…with a little bit of creativity, you too can create fun and engaging animated videos.

Shahrzad Ehya

Vyond, USA

Shahrzad is the lead video producer at Vyond, an online do-it-yourself platform for creating animated videos. She collaborates with Vyond's marketing, customer success, and sales teams to create engaging video content for customers and prospects. Before working at Vyond, Shahrzad worked as a freelance photographer and videographer, an advertising photography producer, a university lecturer, an assistant curator for a major art museum, and an arts journalist. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley.