Part of my work as a MOOC designer/instructional designer is the visual redesign of slides or any course materials. Frequently, slide decks for studio recordings arrive on my computer filled with just sentences, sentence stems and/or bullets. The goal of redesign work is to convey the instructor’s ideas more accurately and fully by designing a more directly accessible visual message. This work taps on my message design and graphic design skills to make the material as accurate and aesthetically appealing as possible. I believe that “aesthetics matter” (see University of Edinburgh’s Manifesto for Teaching…