Author Archives: Rob Dennison
Imagine if learning content was this beautiful?
I came across this three and half minute movie clip this week. It it is a beautifully shot and very well edited portrail of Kiev city life. Full credit to Efim Graboy & Daria Turetski – the work is amazing. I have never been to Kiev but somehow I was transported through the sights and sounds [...]
Making our Prezi debut. Prezi is made for maps
The Prezi penny has finally dropped for us here at Trainiac. At first we could not get our head around why anyone would want to use Prezi. It seemed like PowerPoint with annoying transitions. Recently we had an aha revelation in that we finally got to appreciate how Prezi is made for telling stories and [...]
Trainiac extends its publishing options to include custom Apple iBook content
Tablets are the future. This is particularly true when it comes to education. We have been printing and publishing bespoke corporate training content for over a decade. We have always made a point of trying to make books engaging through the use of carefully considered infographics and illustrations. When the iPad came along it captured [...]
Trainiac picture based learning content goes mobile
We are delighted to announce that we are now able to offer a mobile learning solution to our clients. In partnership with Spoken Ink we are now able to deliver a mobile video based, assessable and trackable mobile training option while including our engaging picture based content. This solution can run on smart phones and [...]
Design anything with advanced simplicity in mind
This post is for the designer in all of you. As a team we try to keep things simple. Simplicity is one of our values. Over the years I have seen how hard that can sometimes be. We tell a story about a dinosaur – thin on one end, thick in the middle, thin on [...]
A quick guide to mapping customer touchpoints
Increasingly we are asked to help our clients with what is generally called touchpoint mapping. This is largely due to the visual nature of our work. Infographics, information graphics or what we call learning maps totally lend themselves to mapping business content. Our approach to this tends to be rather straightforward. On the one hand, [...]
Free Download: Client Site Visit Checklist
How to use the site visit checklist: As a designer of learning programmes, one often have to perform site visits at your client’s offices or sites to gather content, interview staff etc. To make sure that you have everything you need, the following checklist will help you prepare for your next client site visit. Download: Client [...]
Periodic Table of Storytelling :: Storytelling and Learning
Storytelling and learning has been on our minds recently. In the past month we have taken a brief and delivered a story orientated learning solution for a large leading technology multi national. Storytelling in learning was also a well attended and stimulating topic of presentation and discussion at the recent Learning & Development Community of [...]