Resources, apps & ideas from Nick Floro.
A living library of 250+ tools for learning architects, designers, and product teams — the same kit Nick and the Sealworks crew use every day. Shared alongside Nick’s seven sessions at DevLearn 2026.
Nick Floro · Founder & Chief Learning Architect
Seven sessions. Come share, learn and grow with us.
Nick is presenting seven sessions at DevLearn 2026 in Las Vegas — Wednesday, Nov 4 and Thursday, Nov 5. Presentations will be posted here for download — check back before, during, or after the sessions, and reach out any time with questions. And keep scrolling — the resource notebooks further down are yours to explore for continued growth.
One studio, five notebooks.
The studio that designs and develops award-winning experiences brings you five living resource notebooks — the tools, apps, and methods behind the work, ready to jump-start your next project.
Prototyping for Learning
Getting started with prototyping — the tools, techniques, and methods to reimagine your learning.
Mobile Apps for Learning
A curated catalog of mobile-first tools, updated regularly.
Cool Apps for Learning
The flagship list — 250+ tools, apps & services Nick & the Sealworks team use every day.
Brainstorming for Learning
Ideas, frameworks, and prompts to spark your next learning experience.
AI for Learning Notebook
How Nick uses AI across the learning-design process — tools, prompts, and workflows.
Nick Floro
Talks, workshops, and writing from Nick — 30 years of learning design in one place.
Sealworks Interactive Studios
The studio Nick co-founded in 1992. Award-winning design, web apps, and learning platforms — for startups through Fortune 500s.
What Nick's recommending right now.
Five tools that hit the studio workflow hardest in the last few weeks.
Claude by Anthropic
Nick's everyday creative partner — from brainstorming and defining the problem to design, prototyping, and vibe coding a working app, all in one conversation.
Miro
Collaborative online whiteboard with templates for brainstorming, design thinking, and agile workshops.
Gemini Notebook
Formerly NotebookLM — Google's AI research companion that turns your PDFs, docs, and URLs into cited answers and audio summaries.
Descript
Edit audio and video by editing the transcript. Wild once you try it.
Granola
The AI meeting notebook that finally makes 'take notes' mean something again.
See what's cool this week.
The feed updates weekly with apps, workflows, and ideas worth stealing — every link earns its place. Browse by collection or jump to the full searchable library.
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A little about Nick.
Nick Floro is Founder & Chief Learning Architect at Sealworks Interactive Studios, with more than 30 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 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.