Practice makes perfect
Looking back to the start of the year, when the team I worked with were green and in an unquestionable forming stage, it’s clear that the challenges we faced were …
Specialists in e-learning, online training, project management and agile delivery.
About Us Contact usUsing digital platforms to deliver content since the 90s, New Media Playground has worked in a wide range of sectors, with numerous clients. Our focus is to provide an intuitive and effective user experience, whether that’s through the creation of exceptional learning materials, or by facilitating a collaborative, agile environment where teams can work together to create those amazing user experiences.
Public sector
Government
Education
Finance
Insurance
Advertising
Marketing
Commercial software
Environmental
Health
Leadership skills
Technically astute
Coaching staff
Information gathering
Commercial experience
Costs & budget control
Agile methodology
Problem solving
Relationship building
Knowledge sharing
LMS Expertise
UI Design
Graphic & 3D Design
Gamification
App based learning
Video scenarios
Virtual Reality
L & D Strategy development
Training needs analysis
Project planning & reporting
Resource management
Risk mitigation
Process improvement
Cross-function supervision
Quality Assurance
Wireframing & UX
Retrospectives
Business Analysis
Proxy Product Owner
We work with our clients to help them achieve great results and deliver effective digital solutions. We work within your organisation, giving you a cost-effective way to introduce the expertise and knowledge you need to solve a short term problem or to bridge the skills gap you need for a fixed period of time.
From early beginnings as a hedonistic, graphic designer in the 90s, earning extra cash by designing flyers and vinyl album covers for her friends, Jane was always passionate about putting pragmatism into her work. Sticking with the mantra of Stephen Bayley, in his book ‘In Good Shape’, that form should follow function, she always had the user in the forefront of her mind with whatever she’s produced.
This ethos was consolidated when she learnt to write html in ’94 at the start of the Internet revolution and she hasn’t looked back since. Having spent over 10 years designing and building websites, she began the second part of her career focusing on building teams of talented individuals to continue where she had left off; facilitating the building of more complex and sophisticated websites and applications, coordinating teams with specialist digital skills, delivering to an increasingly wide range of accessible devices.
She continues to concentrate on creating great user experiences, by coaching and nurturing teams of people to work effectively together – as a good team is greater than the sum of its parts. She specialises in agile digital delivery, as well acting as coach and scrum master, helping organisations to achieve effective results and transform to this highly effective and proven way of working.
Las has always had a flair for good design and spent his youth designing cars of the future – he was always ahead of his time. Having lived in the bright lights and big city of London in his early 20’s he decided to return to the Midlands, where he enrolled on the country’s first multimedia degree course. And so began his journey into a world of cutting-edge CD-ROMS and 3D graphics, riding on the wave of the internet revolution, exploring virtual reality and flying the flag for 3D printing.
Las soon found himself moving into more managerial positions, running programmes of work in various sectors and moving away from the hands-on work that he loved, but in the process discovering he had a real skill for teaching others how to do the work he had done before. This naturally drew him into the field of education, where he found himself at the forefront of virtual learning implementation and educational innovation which have changed the way we learn forever.
This is the space where he has continued to specialise, producing high quality learning materials, giving advice and guidance on how to deliver online teaching and sharing his extensive knowledge of the latest in e-learning technologies.
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