About Kristensen Designs

Lauren Kristensen is the owner of Kristensen Designs Inc. She began her career as a news producer in 2018, quickly realizing that the media often prioritized sensational stories like high-speed car chases and building fires over important issues such as state legislative bills and local special elections. Disagreeing with this approach, Lauren shifted her focus towards education, believing that helping individuals reach their full potential through learning and development was the way to go.
Today, Lauren leverages her instructional design and graphic design skills to support politically conservative candidates in Oregon. She is passionate about local elections, believing they have a more significant impact on our daily lives than national ones. By creating customizable templates and providing strategic guidance, Lauren aims to help deserving local candidates win their races and make a difference in their communities.




Achievements & Recognition

Articulate Storyline® Skilled (software course)
Course completed: February 23, 2021
By the end of this course, students are skilled in Articulate Storyline® software. They are able to identify and interact with the user interface, create their first project, add buttons and hotspots, add layers and lightboxes, add drag and drop interactions, create user input interactions, insert media and audio, add animations and transitions, create quizzes, and publish the files for review, the LMS, or in HTML formats. Learners demonstrate and apply each skill throughout the course.

Certificate of Completion (IDOL Courses Academy)
Completed: March 2021
- Scripted a voiceover for a tutorial video.
- Drafted a storyboard for a Rise course.
- Developed content for my online portfolio. (link is under “contact info” at top).
- Met deadline for course assignments.
- Transformed content into eLearning material.
- Structured content based on instructional design principles.
- Delivered curriculum through Rise and Storyline.

eLearning Developer, Level 1 (IDOL Courses Academy)
Completed: April 17, 2021
- Gained the ability to start with a provided storyboard.
- Developed all the assets for course design.
- Created job aids, instructional scripts, animations in Vyond®, and screen capture videos.
- Created and edited eLearning courses in the Articulate Storyline® authoring tool using both basic and advanced interactions for a variety of purposes and situations.
Technical Skills
Adobe Premier Pro
Timeline-based video editing software
Vyond
Cloud-based animation software
Garageband & Anchor
Storyline 360 & Articulate Rise
Interactive course-building software
Canva
An online graphic design platform
Mentimeter
Interactive Presentation Software