Learning experience designer · Columbus, Ohio

Before I build training, I find out what's actually in the way.

My latest project started with a question about why a product team wasn't using its project board. I found six barriers, and only one of them was something training could fully fix, so I designed the practice around that one.

See how I got there
Annie Gripshover
Hi, I'm Annie!

01 / Selected work

Here is a closer look at one project.

The opening scene of the module: a video call with Noah, Dana, Aisha, and Rahul, with Dana speaking and a caption bar below
Featured case study

A scenario-based module that teaches product managers to write outcomes, not to-do lists.

The team's board was full of finished tasks, and nobody could tell whether those tasks had changed anything. I traced that to one skill and designed a scenario where learners practice it alongside four illustrated coworkers.

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02 / How I work

I do most of the design work before I open Storyline.

These three habits come from my current project, and each one changed what I ended up building.

  1. I ask what's really happening.

    I interview the people close to the work and check whether training is the right fix before I build anything. On this project, most of the fixes turned out to be about roles, workflow, and board setup.

  2. I build practice around real decisions.

    I write activities around the choices people make on the job. I put the feedback beside the learner's own answers so they can compare the two and see why a choice matters.

  3. I test it the way a learner would use it.

    I check color contrast against WCAG, write the alt text, and go through each screen with only a keyboard. That keyboard pass found a focus problem that automated tests had missed.

03 / About me

A teacher’s perspective, a designer’s curiosity.

always asking why

I’m Annie, a learning experience designer who started in the classroom. Four years teaching middle school math taught me to notice where people get stuck and build practice that helps them move forward.

At Amplify, I developed interactive math experiences and tested lessons for quality, accessibility, and screen reader compatibility. Now I bring that mix of instructional judgment, interaction design, and attention to detail to workplace learning.

I have a master’s in education, a love of illustration, and a practical approach to AI: it can help with the production, while I own the design decisions.

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educators and coaches trained

6 barriers

found in my needs analysis, and 1 that training could fix

21 slides

storyboarded for a scenario-based Storyline module