Tools: Articulate Rise 360, Articulate Storyline 360, Adobe Creative Suite, PowerPoint
Learning Strategies: Culturally respectful design, learner-centred design, psychological safety, plain language, accessible design principles
Delivery method: Self-paced eLearning (internal workforce development)
Deliverables: Articulate Rise 360 block templates, Articulate Storyline 360 templates, branded asset design tool (PowerPoint), eLearning development guide
Objective: Equip VACCHO and Balit Durn Durn's internal eLearning developers with a complete, culturally grounded design system — branded templates, a custom asset creation tool, and a practical guide — so they can build high-quality, consistent eLearning independently
About the client
VACCHO — the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation — is the peak representative body for the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victoria. Founded in 1996, VACCHO supports 34 member organisations to deliver high-quality, culturally safe health and social services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across the state.
The Balit Durn Durn Centre was launched within VACCHO in May 2022 as a Centre of Excellence for Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing. Established as a key outcome of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, the Centre leads workforce training and development, builds clinical effectiveness, and drives innovation in social and emotional wellbeing practice across the sector.
The need
VACCHO and the Balit Durn Durn Centre have a significant and growing workforce development mandate — building the capability of practitioners, community workers, and health professionals to deliver culturally safe, evidence-based social and emotional wellbeing support across Victoria. eLearning is a critical part of how they can deliver that training at scale.
But building eLearning that genuinely reflects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values, cultural safety, and the distinct identities of two separate brands — VACCHO and the Balit Durn Durn Centre — requires more than an Articulate licence. Without a consistent design system, every developer starts from scratch. Branding drifts. Quality varies. Cultural safety principles get applied inconsistently. And the time spent on design decisions that should already be made is time not spent on the learning itself.
VACCHO needed a complete eLearning design system their own team could own, use confidently, and build from — one that embedded cultural safety and accessibility from the ground up, not as an afterthought.
The learning solution
Hungry Minds designed and built a comprehensive eLearning design system for VACCHO and the Balit Durn Durn Centre, covering everything their internal developers need to produce professional, culturally grounded, on-brand learning without starting from a blank canvas.
Branded templates — Rise 360 and Storyline 360
We built a full suite of block templates in Articulate Rise 360 and Storyline 360, styled to the distinct branding of both VACCHO and the Balit Durn Durn Centre. The templates cover the full range of development needs — cover pages, content blocks, knowledge checks, reflection activities, content warnings, and support services blocks — with holding text and images ready to swap out. Developers can build entire modules by assembling pre-styled blocks rather than making design decisions from scratch, saving time and ensuring consistency across every piece of content the organisations produce.
Custom asset design tool
Alongside the templates, we built a bespoke PowerPoint-based asset design tool — a library of branded, editable graphic elements developers can use to create custom flashcards, image frames, and diagrams that look and feel on-brand every time. The tool puts professional visual design within reach of any developer, regardless of their design background.
The eLearning Guide
To tie the whole system together, we developed a practical eLearning guide that gives developers the principles and the how-to in one place. It covers:
- Tone of voice — warm, supportive, plain language, and always culturally safe
- Visual consistency — colour palette, background use, image guidelines, and grouping logic
- Accessibility — alt text, contrast, captions, keyboard accessibility, and WCAG AA standards
- Knowledge checks and quizzes — scenario-based question design, constructive feedback, and assessment settings
- Learner-centred design — reflection points, psychological safety, and how to handle sensitive topics with care
- Culturally respectful design — representing communities authentically, honouring lived experience, and avoiding tokenism
The outcome
VACCHO and the Balit Durn Durn Centre now have a complete, self-sufficient eLearning design system, built around their brands, their values, and their people. Internal developers can build polished, culturally safe, accessible learning without reinventing the wheel each time, and without the risk of cultural safety principles being lost in translation.
The design system reflects something important: that high-quality, culturally grounded learning infrastructure is not a luxury. For an organisation whose mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Victoria, the quality and cultural safety of every piece of learning it produces matters deeply. This work helps VACCHO and the Balit Durn Durn Centre build that capability — at scale, with confidence, and on their own terms.
The team
Naomi: Senior Instructional Designer
Olivia: Senior Instructional Designer
Michael: Managing Partner & Senior Learning Designer
VACCHO & Balit Durn Durn Centre
Gender Equity Works
