Hi, I'm Van (Stella)

As a lifelong learner and instructional designer, I believe learning should be engaging, meaningful, and efficient.

With over 10 years in the field, I’ve made it my mission to create learning experiences that truly connect—benefiting the learners, their sponsors, and the business as a whole.

MY STORY

Instructional Design is my ''ikigai''

In Japanese, there’s a beautiful word, “ikigai,” meaning “a reason for being.” For me, instructional design is exactly that.

My journey into this field began when I realized my passion for improving learning experiences, particularly those that fell short. I found myself driven to make every piece of content clearer, more interactive, and simply better. So, in early 2020, I took a leap into instructional design—and I’ve never looked back.

Training Theories & Models I applied in my training sessions:

  1. ADDIE & SAM
  2. Bloom’s Taxonomy
  3. Andragogy (Adult Learning)
  4. Gagné’s 9 Events of Learning
  5. Kirkpatrick’s Levels of Evaluation
  6. Mayer’s Principles for eLearning

Tools I can use: 

  • Authoring tool: Articulate Storyline & Rise (Advanced level)
  • Visual design: Adobe Illustrator, Canva
  • Video creation & collaboration: Camtasia, Vyond, Frame.io, CapCut, Adobe After Effects
  • Data analysis & Visualization: Power BI, Kibana
  • Gen AI Prompting: ChatGPT, NotebookLM, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, and many more.
  • Coding: Learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Others: MS 365, Google Suite

During my tenure in Training & Development career, I’ve had the privilege to collaborate with international companies in different industries, such as: 

  • Education: Wall Street English, Manabie K12 Edtech, One-on-One Edtech
  • Technology: KMS Technology, GeoComply
  • Financial services: Home Credit, Hanwha Life
  • FMCG: Nescafe

My Design Toolbox 🎨:

  • Training Topics: Onboarding, technical training, sales & service, soft skills, and more.
  • Delivery Methods: I blend e-learning and instructor-led training (live or virtual), mixing the best of both worlds.

My latest projects

The projects I have done for the above companies are confidential and can’t be shared with the public. To know more about my technical skills, in my portfolio, you can refer to the e-learning works I made, following the themes of Articulate’s weekly e-learning challenges.