Doug Talbott
Director, eLearning Content Development
Mr. Talbott is the Director of Content Development at XIA Systems and an eLearning Advisor at Online-Learning.com. With over 25 years of experience
in user interface design, instructional design, graphic design and design management,
Mr. Talbott has a wide range of content development experience with notable
companies such as Nortel Networks, Honeywell and IBM. He has written, designed
and taught courses for all of these companies and Carleton University in the
areas of human factors design, visual design and computer science.
Prior to joining XIA, Mr. Talbott was a senior manager in Nortel's Design Interpretive
Group where he supervised the development of a wide range of design projects
including the design of the company's technical documentation suite, the user
interface design of multiple applications in the Preside Network Management
product line, the M3000 Touchphone user interface, and the TOPS/MP Operator
Workstation user interface. He holds a number of user interface and visual design
patents in these areas and has been the recipient of numerous design awards
from the Canadian Graphic Designers Guild, the Society of Technical Communicators
and the New York Advertising Association.
