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Designing Digitally is an American e-learning and serious game development firm based in Franklin, Ohio. It creates virtual reality immersive learning and training environments. Best known for its educational simulations for universities and colleges, Designing Digitally has won several awards and honors.

Activities
Designing Digitally, founded by Andrew Hughes in 2006, uses gamification to make contents more accessible to users. The company incorporates virtual world technologies into traditional e-learning courses.

Together with Cuyahoga Community College, Designing Digitally made Tri-C 3-D Stress Simulator, an interactive teaching tool designed to help students learn about stress response at the body and cellular level through 3D simulation. It was made available for free through a Creative Commons license. Designing Digitally helped develop a 3D game for occupational therapy students at Rutgers University and a 3D simulation of DNA sequencing for Auburn University.

The company's 3D Virtual Campus Tours platform is based on the assumption that potential students of a university or college would be more engaged in the virtual campus designed like a video game. The virtual campus, made to scale and based on photographs of actual floorings, includes a live admissions representative that talks to each student and offers suggestions based on their academic interests. By 2012, Designing Digitally had partnered with eight schools, including the United States Air Force Academy.

Designing Digitally also makes serious games for Fortune 1000 and other companies. Chop & Drop, compatible with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, is a virtual reality game that teaches power line engineers how to clear trees and debris away from power lines. To better achieve an immersive experience, it uses 3D sound and haptic feedback. Finally, the company has a browser-based 3D world called Azivia.

Awards and recognition
The 3D Virtual Campus Tours platform was a runner-up for Unity's Best Serious Game Award in 2012. In the same year, Designing Digitally was chosen as the Business of the Year of Franklin, Ohio and took first place honors in the Familiarization category in the 2012 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge with its 3D virtual campus tour of the United States Air Force Academy.

Designing Digitally was awarded Honorable Mentions by the International E-Learning Association (IELA) in 2014 for Tri-C 3D Stress Simulation and Rutgers The State University of New Jersey: Living Independently Virtual Environment (L.I.V.E). It was included among the Top 20 Gamification Companies by Training Industry in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

The company won a bronze medal at 2016 International Serious Play Awards for Mercer City. It won two 2016 Horizon Interactive Awards in the Training/E-Learning category for Checkers: Drive-Thru Challenge Game and Wyndham Loyalty Program Gamified Learning.

Company President Andrew Hughes won the 2016 Learning! Champion Award in the Innovator category.