The Visual Lounge
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The Visual Lounge
Visuals and videos are powerful, but creating them can feel overwhelming. Yet they are essential to creating content that impacts understanding, helps improve communication, and can save you and the viewers time and money. The Visual Lounge is a place where we talk about creating and using visuals...
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Why Most Workplace Learning Doesn't Work (And What To Do Instead)
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What is the difference between covering a topic and actually teaching it? The best L&D designers know the answer.
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What AI Can (and Can't) Do for Learning with Destery Hildenbrand
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Riding the wave when it comes to the advancements in AI comes down to understanding one key distinction - AI generates, humans...
What Educators Can Learn from Filmmakers
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Is it time to move beyond the old pedagogical framework?
Anybody over a certain age will conjure the same image with the...
Why Your Videos Aren’t Hooking People
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You don't need better gear, a better location, or a better idea. You need to get out of your own way.
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Building Educational Videos for YouTube That Work
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When you solve your own learning problems, you can accidentally build the resource everyone else was missing.
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The Real Role of Instructional Designers After AI
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When content generation becomes fast and frictionless, do learning specialists need to be involved at all?
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Why Video Still Feels Hard (and How Small Teams Make It Work)
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Most small teams want to do more video. The hard part is doing it every week, without the crew, the hours, or the budget to mak...
Turn Zoom Recordings Into Training Videos That Work
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Most teams are sitting on a stack of Zoom recordings (webinars, customer trainings, all-hands sessions) that nobody ever turns...
From Order Taker to Strategic Partner with Tracie Cantu
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The business is your customer. The learner is your consumer. If you’ve been thinking about it the other way round, this episode...
How to Tell Better Visual Stories (That Actually Connect) with Stuart Cohen
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What if the most powerful thing in your video has nothing to do with your camera, your software, or your budget?
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From Med School to 350K+ Subscribers: Teaching That Actually Works
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Teaching isn’t the reward you get after you’ve learned something. For Taim Dawod, it’s been the learning method itself.
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What the Global L&D Survey Reveals About the Future of Learning (with Donald Taylor)
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We’re in a pivotal moment for learning and development. But is the industry ready for what comes next?
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How Project Managers Can Use Video to Save Time and Improve Communication
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What if video could shave 20 minutes off your leadership meetings and help your team come prepared with the right questions?
Cognitive Science & Choosing the Right Media for Learning with Clark Quinn
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How can you use the cognitive properties of media for the best training and learning outcomes?
Whether you’re in training...
Why Facts Don’t Stick (And Stories Do): How to Make Training, Presentations, & Videos More Memorable
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What makes a story actually stick? And why do so many professionals get it wrong?
In this episode, host Matt Pierce sits...
How to Script Learning Videos That People Actually Watch
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Are you struggling to script engaging training videos? Or maybe viewers are getting confused, and you’re not quite sure how to...
What People Really See When You’re on Camera
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When you’re on camera, people decide how much they trust you a lot faster than you realize.
In this episode, we revisit a...
What Research Says About AI Avatars in Learning
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Should AI avatars replace human presenters?
In part two of this research series on The Visual Lounge, host Matt Pierce is...
AI Voices: Impact on Learning
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How much does audio really affect learning? And does it matter whether that voice is human or AI?
In this episode, Matt s...
What SMEs Actually Need from Instructional Designers
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Have you ever struggled to get the information you need from a subject matter expert? Or maybe you're the expert (SME), and you...
Why Stories and Visuals Matter More Than Ever in Times of Change
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Change is emotional. Even when the strategy is solid, people still feel uncertain, skeptical, or overwhelmed, especially when t...
End-of-Year Tips and Holiday Cheer from the TechSmith Team
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As the new year starts, it’s the perfect time to reflect (and look forward) on how we create and communicate learning content.<...
Adapting to Change: Surviving the Rapid AI Transformation in the Workplace
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AI is reshaping learning and development faster than any of us expected. So how do we adapt? And what skills will matter most a...
Pause. Rewind. Learn. More Effective Learning with Patti Shank
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Ever clicked play on a learning video that looks polished and professional, only to finish it and think, “Wait, what did I just...
How to Choose the Right AI Video Tools Without Breaking the Bank
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Imagine logging in next month to find your bill for the AI tool you use has doubled, or that you've run out of credits halfway...
From "Watch Bait" to Workflow: Leveraging AI Video for Success
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What happens when everyone can create AI videos with just a text prompt?
We’re entering the “watch bait era” where AI-gen...
Supercharging Your Presentation Speed: Tips and Tricks
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We've all sat through presentations that feel like a performance, polished, professional, but somehow disconnected. The speaker...
Transform Courses Into Campaigns: Repurposing Learning Content for Lasting Impact
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What if your carefully crafted training course could become a content campaign that actually drives behavior change? Most L&D p...
One Approach to Designing Learning Videos That Avoid Cognitive Overload
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Have you ever watched a learning video and felt completely overwhelmed, even though the topic itself wasn't that complicated? T...
Steal Ideas from Short-Form Video Creators for Learning
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Lo-fi and authentic works. Just look at the best short-form creators, they’ve figured out engagement. They know how to be authe...
Getting to the Point: Video Best Practices from Techsmith’s Customer Education Manager
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We've all been there, clicking on an instructional video only to sit through minutes of backstory when all we wanted was the so...
Avoiding AI Slop: Best Practices from the Human Framework
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AI is transforming how we create content, but there’s also a growing problem: AI slop. It’s the flood of auto-generated videos,...
The Art and Frustration of AI Video
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What if pro-level video creation didn't require a film crew, expensive equipment, or weeks of production time? Imagine literall...
GIFS & Videos for Effective Customer Learning
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Customer education is a must-have for a lot of businesses these days, especially software companies. But reading thick manuals...
Beyond Instructional Design: Building Agile, Business-Aligned L&D Functions
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What if we had to rebuild L&D from scratch? What could we do differently?
There have been rumblings in the L&D world that...
Why Your Visuals Aren’t Working Anymore (And What to Do Instead) with Andy Crestodina on Video, AI, and Content That Connects
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The internet’s relationship with visuals and video has been a rocky ship over the past few years, constantly pivoting and evolv...
How Visual Aids Make or Break Learning: Design, Simplicity, and Accessibility (Revisited)
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Need to create an e-learning presentation but don’t have an eye for good visuals? This episode is for you!
We revisit a...
Mastering Action First Learning: How to Boost Engagement and Outcomes
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It’s time to ditch the lectures. The secret to creating powerful learning content that people actually pay attention to and use...
Level Up Your Personal Brand: Consistency, Visuals, and Human Connection
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How do some people just seem to command attention the moment they walk into a room? They’ve nailed their personal brand.
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Skip the Classroom: Rethinking Education and How Videos & Skills May Turn into College Credit
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What if all that time you spent learning Python on YouTube or mastering Photoshop through online tutorials could actually count...