Story Board - July 2025
Story Board is our quarterly newsletter featuring bite-size and digestible L&D news and views...
Heather Ditch
Emotive subjects, powerful medium: Why animation works
Animation conveys complex or emotive subjects with thoughtful impact. It invites the audience to...
From PowerPoint to play: Rethinking safety with Fujitsu
Ep. 1: Around the Desq podcast
Lessons from the AI & learning design bootcamp
Discover how AI can streamline learning design from analysis to evaluation, based on insights from...
2025 Learning Excellence Awards win for M&S and Desq
Desq and Marks & Spencer have been recognised with top honours at the 2025 Learning Excellence...
Five tips for building connection in digital learning
It’s Learning at Work Week and this year’s theme Get Connected reminds us just how essential social...
Five years on: Learning to respond to domestic abuse in a post-COVID world
At the height of the pandemic, Desq began working with Somerset Council to develop training on how...
Story Board - March 2025
Welcome to the latest edition of Story Board - the all things L&D newsletter from Desq. This...
Creating the right conditions for compliance training
All the compliance training in the world can’t compensate for a corporate culture that doesn’t...
Making the best of blended
In 2024 the Office for National Statistics published data stating 28% of UK workers are blending...
Is it even possible to learn diversity, equity and inclusion?
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is a familiar feature of workplace training, often promising...
Good workplace DEI is hard. How can L&D help?
We might still be committed to the idea of diversity, equity and inclusion, but we’re finally...
Making learning at work pay
But a few years back, when we thought about how we (Desq) learn at work, we decided it was time to...
Digital learning still has a ‘click’ problem. How can we get over it?
Perhaps it’s a hangover from the early days of e-learning that clicking to reveal content is still...
5 questions L&D teams should be asking their digital learning designers
Commissioning learning design can be tricky – there’s an ever-changing world of technical...
Successful onboarding is a branded experience
I’m new to digital learning. I’ve spent 20 years in brand strategy, design and language, digging...
How gemba shines a light on our clients’ worlds … And enables learner-centred design
The Japanese practice of ‘gemba’ was popularised by Toyota. There, managers would walk the shop...
Is scrolling a vibe killer?
It’s second nature to scroll. Whether we’re browsing social or skim-reading news articles,...