Co-founder & Chief Learning Architect at Sealworks. 34+ years of turning ideas into prototypes, courses, apps, and platforms — for startups, Fortune 500s, reaching millions of learners every year.
A live snapshot — updated whenever something interesting changes.
160+ curated tools across 21 categories — a living kit for L&D teams.
Curated directory of mobile apps for learners, parents, and teachers — refreshed and re-launched with new categories.
New search, filtering, and a much faster directory experience.
Four talks on AI in L&D, prototyping, and design thinking. Booth 931 with the Sealworks crew.
Helping teams use Claude, Lovable & v0 to spike ideas in hours, not weeks.
160+ tools and counting — adding 5–10 new picks each month.
Sealworks' own task & project tool — refreshing the engine and rolling out a redesigned client experience.
Create, track, and connect learning experiences. A modern hub for cohorts, content, and outcomes.
Returning to the stage for a session on AI-native learning design.
The studio, the personal practice, and three resources of apps, tools, and ideas for you to grow. Each feeds the next.
The studio I co-founded in 1992. Award-winning design, web apps, and learning platforms — for startups through Fortune 500s.
Visit ↗ P prototypingforlearning.comGetting started with prototyping — the tools, techniques, and methods to reimagine your learning.
Visit ↗ M mobileappsforlearning.comA curated catalog of mobile-first tools, updated regularly.
Visit ↗ C coolappsforlearning.comThe flagship list. Tools, apps & services Nick & the Sealworks team use every day to design, build, and ship.
Visit ↗ ▌ sidebar.ioOne of my daily reads — a tight, hand-picked feed of the best design writing on the internet.
Visit ↗A short list of the books I keep gifting, citing, or re-reading.
Still the clearest explanation of why doors confuse people — and how to design things that don't.
The five-day playbook that cured my "let's-have-another-meeting" addiction.
If you build learning experiences and haven't read this, stop everything.
Architects gave us this gift, and software people are still mining it.
A 90-minute read that fixes 90% of bad customer interviews.
The book I wish I'd had as a junior designer. Practical and opinionated.
Pixar's playbook on protecting fragile ideas from the people who'd kill them too early.
Lessons from 15 years running Disney — leadership, taste, and big bets.
The obsession that drove Apple — and a great primer on simplicity as a discipline.
Life in first person. A wild reminder of what small teams can ship.
An unorthodox guide to making things worth making — from the Nest & iPod creator.
How habit-forming products get built — and the ethics of using the model thoughtfully.
A craftsman's memoir on inhabiting a character — and the art of restraint.
Sega vs. Nintendo — the scrappy underdog playbook for taking on a giant.
Essential reading for anyone designing in the AI-native era.
A working journal from one of gaming's pivotal moments. Pure craft, pure honesty.
How to nurture the wild ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries.
Tiny changes, remarkable results. The clearest playbook I've found for designing systems that produce lasting behavior change.
A practical playbook for building accessible, inclusive learning experiences — accessibility baked in from the start, not bolted on at the end.
The friendliest, most practical intro to learning science I've ever handed a junior designer. Worth re-reading every couple of years.
Finally, an analytics book written for IDs — not data scientists. Clear, practical, and the missing piece for proving learning actually worked.
A blueprint for L&D that fits the way people actually work today — flow-of-work learning, content + community + coaching, all stitched together.
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33+ years, a studio, a lot of sketching, imagining, architecting, playing — and four ways I help teams launch new experiences.
Nick Floro is a co-founder and Chief Learning Architect at Sealworks Interactive Studios, with more than 33 years of experience designing and developing learning experiences, applications, and web platforms.
He specializes in the intersection of design, technology, and learning — helping teams turn rough ideas into effective, learner-centered solutions.
Nick is passionate about teaching, sharing, and inspiring others, and is known for sketching, imagining, and prototyping innovative concepts that engage audiences of all ages.
His work has helped create learning experiences that reach millions of learners worldwide yearly — from K–12 to enterprise.
Research, strategy, and interaction design. Start with the user, work backwards. Storyboards, journey maps, the whole kit.
From low-fi paper to working AI-built prototypes in hours. The fastest path from idea to "let's try it."
Scalable web apps, mobile apps, and platforms built to evolve with your business. Full-stack, full-cycle.
Learner-centered content, tools, apps, and platforms that scale, grow, and are designed from the ground up around your audience.
Whether you're prototyping your first app or scaling a platform to millions, I'd love to hear about it. Coffee chats welcome.
Sealworks Interactive Studios
31 W Ashland St, Doylestown PA 18901
(215) 369-9640