The Visual Lounge

Are you an educator exhausted with online learning?

Pivoting your skills from in-person to a virtual environment comes with its challenges in any industry. But for training and education, the transit…

How can a simple exercise help develop your skills, find gaps in your learning, and motivate you to progress to the next level?

It might sound too good to be true, but the simplicity of the “maturity…

If you’re a beginner video creator, it can take time to develop a scriptwriting strategy that suits your style and helps you create better content. But there are ways to streamline and improve your p…

Digital communication can often straddle the space between problem and solution. For example…

Problem: You’re a live speaker, but all live events are canceled.

Solution: Pivot to virtual speaking and u…

Can simplified user interfaces revolutionize your visual instructions?

You may not have heard of simplified user interfaces (otherwise known as SUI) before, but there’s a good chance you’ll have seen …

Does your informational content take too long to create?

If you create visual instructions, like a job aid or a step-by-step guide, you’ll know that gathering the information is just part of the work.…

What is help content?

You don’t have to be a technical writer to create content that helps people use your product. Your content just needs to help your customers help themselves.

Customer education …

Video is one of the best ways to reach an audience, but it's also one of the most intimidating content forms to create. If fear is holding you back, maybe you just need to “press the damn button.”

It'…

If you're looking for a learning solution to help empower your employees, you might have considered investing in a training course or eLearning materials. But have you considered the benefits of job …

With so much video content online, how do you get viewers to watch your videos? Once you've won that battle, how do you keep them watching to the end?

If you've ever seen your watch-rates plummet and …

The pivot from face to face interaction to online interaction is happening across many industries, and nowhere is it more evident and universal than in education. As teaching continues to move online…

How can you write better video scripts, faster?

Scriptwriting can heavily influence the amount of time it takes to see a video through from conception to completion and while there are many different …

Screen recording can be a very useful and powerful tool in your video arsenal, however, few people know how to utilize it well and, if you’ve never used it before, it can be overwhelming to know wher…

What can you do to make sure that you design an eLearning course that delivers real results?

Tim Slade is a speaker, award-winning freelance eLearning designer and the author of the book, ‘The eLearni…

It is increasingly impossible to think of a content strategy that doesn’t utilise video as a strong and effective component. Yet for many people there are still barriers and obstacles stopping them f…

How can you design content that will help people to learn?

You don’t have to be a teacher in the traditional sense to teach others. You might find yourself faced with a teaching role that you didn’t e…

PowerPoint is boring. That’s what we’ve all heard, right? Too much text, too many bullet points, too much of the presenter just reading off the slides. But is it a PowerPoint problem or a design prob…

Current events have turned the world upside down for many people. Those in the education field have had to switch classrooms and lecture halls for virtual videos and remote teaching for the first tim…

Welcome to The Visual Lounge from TechSmith, the podcast all about using, creating, evaluating, and getting the most from your images and videos.

The Visual Lounge is a place where we talk about creat…