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It’s fair to say I suffer from shiny-new-thing syndrome! A few months ago, we invested in Mighty by Maestro - a plugin for Articulate Rise that means you can make courses look and function far better than out of the box. I’ve been eyeing it up for years, so I was excited! When a client came to us with a brief that had some real constraints (two-minute micros, a field-based workforce, accessed mainly on mobile), I figured that was the perfect time to start playing with my new

We weren't appointed to a panel recently. The concern, more or less: too small to handle the volume. I understand the instinct, but I don't think it's right. Right now, there are two of us running six live projects at once. Different clients, different stages, different demands on any given day. All held to the same standard. Neither of us is working weekends to keep it up. That isn't heroics. It's design. Two people and a team of AI assistants can only move at that pace if t

Ask us, and the honest answer is: it's already changed how we work. Just not in the way people expect. What AI does well: Generates a rough first pass at a scenario so we're editing, not staring at a blank page Produces quick variations once we've found a version that works Drafts starting-point learner personas before we sharpen them Suggests a first cut at learning objectives to react to and refine Speeds up restructuring and reformatting once the underlying content is righ

Because it was never actually designed to. It was designed to be completed. Finished. Marked off a list. Behaviour change was assumed to follow automatically from exposure to information. It doesn't. People don't fail to follow policies because they haven't read them. They fail because knowing a rule and applying it under pressure, ambiguity, or time pressure are two completely different skills. This is the gap scenario-based learning is built to close. Instead of asking "Do

Most people assume the answer is no. I understand why. Compliance training, in particular, has trained us to expect the opposite: click next, read the slide, tick the box. But human-centred doesn't mean less digital. It means designing for how people actually think, decide, and behave - even inside a screen. What doesn't work: Generic scenarios nobody recognises Feedback that only says "correct" or "incorrect" Content written for an audience of one - the compliance team What

When learning doesn't stick, people reach for the easy explanation: not enough budget, not enough time, not the right platform. A 2025 global report drawn from more than 500 interviews found budget is still the most-cited barrier. But it also found budget is rarely the real one. The deeper blockers were quieter. Managers treating training as optional. Senior leaders handing learning to HR and never showing up to it themselves. Because a learning culture isn't set by what an o