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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Steal Ideas from Short-Form Video Creators for Learning
Lo-fi and authentic works. Just look at the best short-form creators, they’ve figured out engagement. They know how to be authentic, intentional, and...
Getting to the Point: Video Best Practices from Techsmith’s Customer Education Manager
We've all been there, clicking on an instructional video only to sit through minutes of backstory when all we wanted was the solution. In a world wher...
Avoiding AI Slop: Best Practices from the Human Framework
AI is transforming how we create content, but there’s also a growing problem: AI slop. It’s the flood of auto-generated videos, images, and text that...
The Art and Frustration of AI Video
What if pro-level video creation didn't require a film crew, expensive equipment, or weeks of production time? Imagine literally describing what you w...
GIFS & Videos for Effective Customer Learning
Customer education is a must-have for a lot of businesses these days, especially software companies. But reading thick manuals and wordy passages of j...
Beyond Instructional Design: Building Agile, Business-Aligned L&D Functions
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 roles are gradually go...
Why Your Visuals Aren’t Working Anymore (And What to Do Instead) with Andy Crestodina on Video, AI, and Content That Connects
The internet’s relationship with visuals and video has been a rocky ship over the past few years, constantly pivoting and evolving. And most creators...
How Visual Aids Make or Break Learning: Design, Simplicity, and Accessibility (Revisited)
Need to create an e-learning presentation but don’t have an eye for good visuals? This episode is for you!
We revisit a great past episode with...
Mastering Action First Learning: How to Boost Engagement and Outcomes
It’s time to ditch the lectures. The secret to creating powerful learning content that people actually pay attention to and use in their daily lives i...
Level Up Your Personal Brand: Consistency, Visuals, and Human Connection
How do some people just seem to command attention the moment they walk into a room? They’ve nailed their personal brand.
Dr. Dustin York, who's...
Skip the Classroom: Rethinking Education and How Videos & Skills May Turn into College Credit
What if all that time you spent learning Python on YouTube or mastering Photoshop through online tutorials could actually count toward formal educatio...
How to Ruin a Good Video and Other Mistakes We've All Made
What makes you click away immediately from a video vs. stay glued to the screen? Maybe it’s overwhelming background music or cursor movements that mak...
The Evolving Role of L&D: Embracing Visuals, AI, and Workforce Participation
Learning and development isn’t just up to the folks in the L&D department anymore. In this episode, we hear how modern workplace communication and lea...
Systems, Support, and Simplicity: Key Lessons in Effective Visual Learning Design | Abbey Cooke, Jeff Weaver, & Robyn Defelice
Want to know the secrets of the L&D content pros?
Become an even better visual designer today with these simple, quick tips for improving your a...
AI, Feedback, and Repurposing Like a Pro | Multiple Guests
We like to ask anyone who joins The Visual Lounge, what’s your one take you want to give our audience? It’s an open-ended question so we always get a...
Harnessing Video for Enhanced Learning (Revisited)
Is video always the best way to teach something? Video has transformed the world of workplace learning and still makes up a huge part of it today. Jus...
The Evolving Future of Video: AI, Authenticity, and Connection in the Workplace (Revisited)
In just a few short years, AI usage has boomed in the content creation world. Not just that, it’s also changed a LOT, and in ways many of us never pre...
Practical AI Applications for Video Production
Have you ever felt a little out of your depth when making an extra complex or brand new video type? Maybe AI could help.
Host Matt Pierce share...
The Real Barriers to Effective Learning: Organization, Learner, and L&D Missteps
What’s really holding your learners back from absorbing the information they need? We’ve all been through training at some point that’s either confusi...
If You’re Not Hooking Viewers in 5 Seconds… You’ve Already Lost Them
You have just five seconds. So hook ‘em in, keep them watching, and make those seconds count.
Starting with a clear hook isn’t just for YouTuber...
Improving Your on Camera Presence (Revisited)
Here’s a secret… most people aren’t naturals on camera.
For many, it can be daunting and can even hold us back from trying to make videos in th...
L&D Global Sentiment Survey
What do you need to know about the L&D space in 2025?
The L&D Global Sentiment Survey is now in its 12th year and records the trends, attitudes...
Harnessing AI for Visual Communication (Live at Training 2025)
Can using AI in visual design ever be truly creative? This week’s guest would go one step further and call AI the “future of creativity.”
Mike P...
Easy and Simple Video Creation (Revisited)
A while back, we sat down with Edie Clarke, Virtual Video Producer and Editor and YouTube Strategist, to talk about why simpler is often better when i...
Evolution of Video in Learning
The medium of video transformed drastically since it was first invented, but there’s one thing that hasn’t. Regardless of whether you’re creating ente...
Approach to Scenario Writing and Multimedia
Storytelling is the golden ticket to understanding how we communicate and absorb information. It’s already a big focus in the marketing world. But wha...
AI Assisted Video Creation (Revisited)
Take your mind back to 2023. Generative AI was still relatively new on the scene, and we were all curious about how it would impact the world. Would i...
A View from the C-Suite
Rarely do we get the chance to hear the C-suite side of things when it comes to content and learning design. What do they really think about the train...
Video, Screenshots, and AI - Insights from a Customer Education Manager
Get to the point. That’s the way you entice audiences and ensure they stay. While front-loading instructional videos with the ‘why’ is tempting, it’s...
Do You Know What Your Audience Thinks of Your Training Videos?
Training videos have a reputation for being dry and boring, but it doesn’t have to be this way!
By communicating value and involving your audien...
Simplify: Video Design and Production
Are you overcomplicating your videos? Great editing software comes packed with features that can transform simple videos into an all-singing, all-danc...
Revisited: Designing for How People Learn
The success of any instructional piece of content is in how well the information is retained, memorized and actioned. After all, we want the lessons w...
Updates, Opportunities, & Practice
Matt Pierce dishes out exciting updates for Camtasia 2024 in this mini episode. Enhanced functionality around dynamic captioning plus new color labels...
The Training Stories We Tell
Have you ever needed a great story to help with your training? This episode focuses on the power of storytelling with Rance Greene, the Founder of Sch...
Trainers' Video Questions Answered
You asked, and we’re here to answer! Host of The Visual Lounge Matt Pierce has collected some of the most burning questions video trainers have about...
2024 Video Viewer Trends Report
Who is your audience and what do they need? Whenever we create content, this should be top of mind. Whether we’re creating something fun and entertain...
Elevating Your On-Camera Ability
Let’s face it, talking to a camera is not something that comes naturally to anyone. And it can be daunting to look at that lens and come up with somet...
Video Design Strategies: Simplicity, Iteration, & Inspiration
Let’s get those creative muscles working! The secret to great learning content is just as much about creativity in your messaging as the content itsel...
Why Images Are NOT Optional for Business
Did you know that humans process visual information 30 times faster than blinking? And that we’re far more likely to remember things we see than thing...
Modular Video Training: Lessons from Creating the Camtasia Certification Program
What does it take to design a software certification program that remains relevant even when that software gets a fresh update? In this episode of The...