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Vibe-coding Creativity & Neural Connections Animation with Claude

My experience of vibe-coding the abstract neural network animation and three burning questions.

Announcing the Training Delivery & Facilitation Excellence (TDFE) Course

The Training Delivery and Facilitation Excellence certificate course is a unique offering by Creative Agni. This course is available to learning professionals with some/considerable experience in instructional design, technical writing, content writing or in the SME role – and focuses on enabling the participants internalize the essence being an enabling trainer.

SCAMPER: Nudge your Creativity into Action.

SCAMPER is a simple-to-apply technique for creative brainstorming. In this article, we look at each of these along with a few examples that help us understand how it works.

Announcing the Multi-Mode Creativity & Critical Thinking (M2C2T) Certificate Course.

Creative Agni announces a unique and powerful one month certificate course on Creativity and Creative Thinking for working professionals. Read about the course and why it’s going to be a game-changer.

The Creativity and Critical Thinking Workshop

On January 24th, 2026, we had a stimulating session on creativity and critical thinking. We talked about: The workshop also introduced Creative Agni’s new offering, the 1-month “Multi-Mode Creativity & Critical Thinking Course.” Shafali will be conducting this course. You… Continue Reading →

Announcing the April-June 2026 Session of the IDCDT-AIM Course.

Late in applying for the Jan-March session? Don’t worry. We’ll process your application for the April-June session.

If you are thinking of applying for the April-June session, send in your application soon. We have opened registrations, and will be accepting 6 participants only!

Meanwhile, you can get the book to refresh your ID knowledge or level up.

Atlas – The Superbot vs. Optimus – The Peoplebot

On the 6th of January, 2026, Hyundai stunned the tech-watchers by debuting Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ M&B hero humanoid robot, who walked the stage like a hunk.

But the walk was just the icing on the cake. Atlas showed off his fully rotational joints (abdomen, neck, shoulders, hips, wrists), which make him more efficient than humans.

Optimus now has a challenger!

Instructional Design and Art: A LinkedIn post

I did a color-pencil drawing of a dragon (or, to be more precise, a dragon’s head). Nothing to brag about, really, except that I had to beat a severe case of demotivation to pick up my pencils.

In this LinkedIn post, I talked about the reason why an artist puts in a lifetime of hard work to acquire the ability to create the exact image of something that they have in their mind.

And if we understand that, we’d understand why instructional design, too, is art.

Responsible Use of AI – What it means for Learners

With about 70% of the students using AI to complete their assignments, and with nearly 75% of the content on the Internet becoming AI generated, we must stop and reflect on how AI is impacting our brain’s ability to form new connections and be creative.

This article discusses “Responsible Use of AI” along with an introduction to “RAD: The 3 Baskets of AI” – a framework that helps us classify our cognitive tasks smartly.

What Instructional Designers can Learn from Fiction

We, instructional designers, have a lot to learn from fiction. As kids, most of us were taught to shun fiction as a useless hobby/pursuit, and while I am not totally against the argument, I believe that, as adults who work in the field of instructional design, we would do well to read some fiction.

In this post, we’ll see how some important principles of ID (such as the schema theory and the ARCS model) are reflected in fiction.

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