NOT ON THE TOP 100 TOOLS LIST IN 2022
InDesign lets you create and publish everything from printed books and brochures to digital magazines, iPad apps, eBooks, and interactive online documents.
Website: adobe.com/products/indesign.html
Cost: Commercial. Free Trial
Availability: Download
Ranking in the previous surveys:
| 2021: 206 | 2020: 126 | 2019: 80 | 2018: 105 | 2017: 117 | 2016: 129 | 2015: – | 2014: – |
| 2013: – | 2012: – | 2011: – | 2010: – | 2009: – | 2008: – | 2007: – |
Comments on Adobe InDesign
“Powerful tools to make a thesis and project book” C. Tollenaar, Product Design Manager, Netherlands, 2021
“great tool to create interactive job aids” Instructional Designer, USA, 2016
“easily create epubs and engaging digital resources” Mathew Mason, e-learning developer, Australia, 2016
Quick Guide to Adobe InDesign
Here you will find some basic guidance and links on how to use Adobe InDesign for teaching, training, learning and development.
Adobe InDesign is a sophisticated product to create interactive PDF documents like checklists and worksheets that support the checking of checkboxes in the document itself as well as adding text directly into the document.
- Here’s a video that shows how to create checkboxes in Adobe InDesign for an interactive checklist
- Here’s a video on how to create an interactive, fillable worksheet using InDesign.
Further resources
- The Beginner’s Quick-Start Guide to InDesign (Tutorials, Tips & Resources), edututs, 22 June 2018
- InDesign Tips I Wish I’d Known When Starting Out, Smashing Magazine, 17 March 2011
- InDesign Tutorial for Beginners and Dummies, PDF Element
- InDesign for Beginners Step-By-Step Guide (PDF), Southern Methodist University
Last updated: August 26, 2022 at 9:53 am
