Insights

November 4, 2020 News

Saffron Interactive and TUC’s unionlearn tackle the UK skills gap with launch of ground-breaking ‘Create Your Own Future’ project

Having been successfully chosen as an innovator for Nesta’s CareerTech Challenge; in partnership with the Department for Education, Saffron Interactive have launched the Create Your Own Future programme. Nesta and the Department for Education’s CareerTech Challenge has allowed Saffron to develop a videobot that can recognise voice, text and uploaded video by the user, leading […]

October 20, 2020 Blogs

Saffron Insights: how our designers use wireframing to make your learning more successful

There’s a lot that happens behind the scenes when designers begin to conceptualise a new project. But what they’re doing and the thinking behind each element has more bearing on both the user experience and the actual learning, than you might first think. How do you decide whether you’re going to select a four-column grid […]

October 8, 2020 Articles

The latest on the UK skills landscape: what does learning and development need to know?

The skills landscape across the world has been facing transformation as a result of digital disruption. With COVID-19 accelerating change at an unprecedented rate, what is happening in the UK and what does it mean for learning and development? Believe it or not it’s October, and we’ve been feeling the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic […]

October 7, 2020 News

Saffron Interactive Secures 13th Consecutive Year of LPI Accreditation

Saffron Interactive has received accreditation as approved Learning Technologies Provider from the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), for the 13th year running. Saffron is thrilled to have affirmed their position as a key industry thought leader and trusted advisor to organisations that seek game changing learning, bespoke solutions and measurable results. 2020 has been a […]

September 23, 2020 Blogs

Why keyboard-only testing is important for web accessibility

How can developers embed equality of access into their web and learning resource design? Saffron’s very own Nabin Purja digs into the overlooked topic. The web development industry isn’t lacking in online resources. But, it’s critically bare when it comes to practical guidance on web accessibility. While it’s not hard to find typical accessibility standards […]

September 8, 2020 Blogs

Challenges and solutions of transitioning a workforce to remote working

In the current COVID-19 pandemic, almost all businesses were forced to quickly transition their operations into a ‘work from home’ remote working format. This can be an easy or difficult task, depending on how prepared you are and whether you’ve previously fostered a work from home culture. To make the transition to working from home […]

August 20, 2020 Blogs

What can barnacle geese teach us about workplace learning?

What do a certain species of Arctic Goose and the typical office worker have in common? They both develop skills best while in the workflow. In order to leave the nest for the first time, day-old barnacle goslings must make a jump of several hundred feet, attempting feebly to flap their wings. As they continue […]

July 30, 2020 News

Saffron Interactive’s contribution to the Grant Thornton survey of the digital training landscape

Read the cutting edge digest on trends to look out for in learning and development Grant Thornton are one of the leading professional services and consultancy firms operating in the UK. They’ve conducted a survey of the eLearning and digital training landscape, titled ‘eLearning – navigating a thriving tomorrow’. They consulted with Saffron’s director Noorie […]

July 23, 2020 Blogs

Can Coronavirus drive behavior change? Part 1: The Environment and Global Warming | Insights for Learning and Development

As the UK begins to emerge from lockdown, Saffron asks if the global crisis is enough to make us change our ways when it comes to the environment. What is it that drives our behaviours and makes us creatures of habit – even to our own destruction? And finally: how do these findings give us […]

July 14, 2020 Blogs

Putting the designer back in design thinking

“Design is as much a matter of finding problems as it is solving them.” – Professor Bryan Lawson, architect and psychologist If you’ve read the first two parts of this blog series (which I highly recommend), you’ll be familiar with the pros and cons of design thinking (cheers, Gabi) and with a whole host of […]

July 10, 2020 News

Saffron and Richemont secure Silver in International Elearning Awards ‘Mobile Learning Category’

Saffron Interactive’s innovative ‘The Right Choice’ program for leading luxury goods conglomerate Richemont has been chosen for excellence in the Business Mobile Learning Category. Richemont came to Saffron with a simple but important request: How can an organisation become resilient in the face of breaches in information security? This was the question they were working […]

July 3, 2020 Blogs

Investigating the gender skills gap

You might be familiar with the skills gap. But who is it affecting most? The time is ripe for an investigation into the gender skills gap – find out how inequity is eroding training prospects in the office. When was the last time you learnt a new workplace skill? Skills gap stats would suggest not […]