A studio of one principal,
a network of senior craftspeople,
and zero interest in pitching.
Twenty years in learning design.
Ten running this studio.
Bonnie Budd, EdD (
Today Course Kitchen ships courses for clients who care more about learner outcomes than slide counts. Every project is led by Bonnie. The bench (motion designers, voice talent, accessibility auditors, LMS engineers) is hand-picked, senior, and contracted in only when the project calls for it.
Outside the studio: faculty appointments in instructional design, occasional conference talks, an embarrassingly large cookbook collection.
Four operating principles
that actually show up in the work.
Senior people only
Every line of script, every screen, every line of code is written by someone with at least a decade of experience. No juniors learning on your dime.
Code we’d ship for ourselves
Clean SCORM, semantic HTML, documented build files. If we wouldn’t be proud to inherit it, we don’t ship it to you.
Estimates we honor
Fixed-fee whenever possible. If scope changes, we tell you before we touch the work — no surprise invoices, ever.
Accessibility by default
WCAG 2.2 AA is the floor, not the ceiling. We design for screen readers, keyboard users, and cognitive load from day one — not as a remediation pass.
Want to talk shop?
Dr. Budd reads every email.
Whether you’ve got a course that needs to ship, a program that needs rescuing, or just a question about instructional design, we’d genuinely like to hear from you.