About Yvonne
About Yvonne
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My upbringing in Hawai'i and my nomadic life in the US colors my world. I am passionate about using design as a problem-solving tool and empowered by the desire to gain and share knowledge.
My interest and practice with visual and layout design started at 8 years old, when I became a reporter and layout editor for my school newspaper. For the next 10 years, I was part of award winning school teams for various writing, multimedia, and design competitions.
Since then, I've had the opportunity to support Fortune 50, 100, and 500 companies, as well as service projects within government work for 10 different states within the USA.
About 'alawa
About 'alawa
'alawa is a Hawaiian word that means to glance, a knowing glance, or to diagnose by insight. It was a word I saw frequently for 30 years and has been a theme of my professional life.
Publications and Awards
Publications and Awards
Design for All Learners, Contributing Author
Design for All Learners, Contributing Author
Image description: Get the Toolbox You Need to Design for All Learners.
2023 Brijent Culture Award Winner
2023 Brijent Culture Award Winner
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Congratulaltions to our 2023 Culture Award Winner, Yvonne Urra-Bazain!
"Yvonne has shown an amazingly collaborative approach on projects. She is quick to pull in others to get different perspectives and to ask for feedback in order to find solutions that are best for our client and our team."
"Yvonne has a thirst for knowledge and a passion for sharing what she's learned with her teammates. Yvonne tests the boundaries of what's possible in eLearning development in new and exciting ways."
"Yvonne is a wonderful asset to our current project and has contributed at a very high level since she joined us."
Speaking and Presentations
Speaking and Presentations
I've had wonderful opportunities to share about the design process and accessibility for learning and development with various audiences.
Image description: ATD San Diego Virtual Learning Event. Get Good with Articulate Storyline. Topic: Making It Accessible. John Morley, Host. Yvonne Urra-Bazain, Speaker. Thursday, February 19, 2026
In Person Conference Presenter: Articulate Summit, Boston, MA, September 11-12, 2025. "Build Once, Use Everywhere"
In Person Conference Presenter: DevLearn Full-Day Pre-Conference Workshop hosted by The Learning Guild, October 24, 2023. P07-Authoring Accessibly: Tools and Techniques for Equitable Web-Based Training; Yvonne Urra-Bazain, Briljent
Podcast interview: The Ethics One, The Women Talking About Learning podcast hosted by LLARN Leading Learning.
Podcast interview: Episode 28 of Russell Sweep's The L&D Hot Seat
Virtual Conference: The Accessible & Inclusive Design Conference 2023 (AIDC23) Day 4, 2 pm Session.
Monthly Facilitator: Global Learning and Development Community (GLDC)'s Accessibility Co-Lab
Instructional Design Special Interest Group Presenter: Association for Talent Development (ATD) Fort-Worth Mid-Cities Chapter
In-Person Conference Presenter: The Articulate User Conference hosted by The Learning Guild, co-located to DevLearn 2022
Website Mentions
Website Mentions
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