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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Stop Overexplaining: Storytelling Lessons from Robot Chicken with Mike Fasolo
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"The idea is the spark, but the story is what happens after the fire starts."
It's easy to...
A Quick Video is Rarely Quick
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“Could you just make a quick video?”
It's not always possible. Even the shortest videos can...
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...
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 disti...
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 co...
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...
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...
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 involve...
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, t...
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 ses...
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...
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,...
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 l...
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...
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 prepare...
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?
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 e...
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...
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.
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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 Visu...
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?...
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 yo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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 som...
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 driv...
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 its...
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 engagem...
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...
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 f...
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 pro...
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 compani...
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 r...
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,...
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...
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 act...