Teaching InDesign

Wendy Katz

InDesign InStructors share their stories from the classroom

This article appeared in Issue 89 of InDesign Magazine.

When you stand alone in front of a group, or appear before an audience, one of several different things can happen. You might get applause. You might hear boos and hisses. You may elicit tears, or yawns.

But your friendly local InDesign trainer is one of the lucky few who elicit spontaneous tears of joy… of excitement… of discovery… of freedom, perhaps—like the feeling you had when you first got the training wheels off of your bike and rode off down the street.

So, InDesign trainers, this article is for you. Of course, learners—which is to say, all of us—are also welcome here for a peek behind the curtain of the all-knowing and all-powerful Trainers.

We sent out a call to professional InDesign trainers, looking for enduring, fundamental truths about their chosen and noble vocation, or at least some good stories about Everybody’s Favorite Design Program. The response was terrific, with over 60 trainers from around the world writing in. Here’s what we learned from them.