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 and videos for all sorts of communication. Whether you’re creating a course to help your organization roll out new software, an educator learning to better communicate with your students, or a marketer helping your customers see the impact of your product, our conversations will help see how visuals can impact your work. Listen in as Matt Pierce, Learning & Video Ambassador, leads you through a variety of conversations with industry guests and experts. You’ll get practical advice and insights to help you to create better and more impactful images and videos.
Episodes
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When it’s too utopian, people get bored.
The best training doesn't hand you the right answer. It makes you sit with the consequences of getting it wrong.
In this episode, host Matt Pierce sits down with Moe Ash, founder of The Catalyst, an instructional design consultancy, to talk about how real consequences, not perfect answers, are what make training actually wor...
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Don't sacrifice your own taste.
Content moves fast these days. Tools can write it, cut it, and localize it in seconds. But the parts of your work that connect with people, those still come down to you.
In this episode, host Matt Pierce sits down with Adam Avramescu, fractional leader and consultant in Customer Education and Scaled Customer Experience, to talk about how AI is r...
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"The idea is the spark, but the story is what happens after the fire starts."
It's easy to have an idea. It's much harder to turn that idea into something people want to watch, read, or listen to.
In this episode, host Matt Pierce sits down with Emmy‑winning Robot Chicken writer, novelist, and podcaster Mike Fasolo to talk about storytelling. They cover how to hook an audience...
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“Could you just make a quick video?”
It's not always possible. Even the shortest videos can be time-consuming without the right things in place.
In this episode, host Matt Pierce goes solo to talk about what "quick" really means when it comes to video production, and why speed almost always comes with trade-offs worth understanding upfront.
Matt also walks through the pinch poi...
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What is the difference between covering a topic and actually teaching it? The best L&D designers know the answer.
In this revisited episode, Matt is joined by Jonathan Hill, award-winning learning manager and e-learning developer based in the UK. They talk about designing learning that really works, not just content that gets completed because it’s a requirement.
Moving beyond t...
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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 create.
In this live episode, Matt was joined by Destery Hildenbrand, Learning and Development Consultant and Instructional Designer to talk about the impact of AI in L&D, keeping the human in the loop, and organizational readiness.
He captures the fundamental...
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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 phrase ‘educational film’ - death by talking head + PowerPoint.
In this episode Matt was joined by Tiia Grøn, Senior Counselor and Video Producer, Nathalie Blomstereng, Senior Advisor and Learning Designer and Terje Bergli, Senior Tech Advisor, all joining h...
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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.
In this revisited episode, Matt sits down with Aaron King, DeepSnap content creator, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and former professional athlete to talk about what it really takes to grab someone's attention before you've said a word.
Aaron gets into why the things most creators obsess over ...
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When you solve your own learning problems, you can accidentally build the resource everyone else was missing.
In this episode, Matt sits down with Taim Dawod, a medical doctor from Norway who started a medical education YouTube channel in his first year of med school.
Taim gets into his background studying anatomy and the problems he faced with the delivery of the learning. He goes on to ...
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When content generation becomes fast and frictionless, do learning specialists need to be involved at all?
In this episode, Matt sits down with Tim Slade, Speaker, Author and Founder of The eLearning Designer's Academy who discusses the human vs. the automated in instructional design today.
Tim acknowledges that as content generation has become easier and faster, audiences are developing ...
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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 make it happen.
In this revisited episode, Matt sits down with Megan Torrance, Founder and CEO of Torrance Learning, to explore what it takes to make video work as a small team, and why the system she built years ago still holds up today.
Megan’s team rebuilt t...
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Most teams are sitting on a stack of Zoom recordings (webinars, customer trainings, all-hands sessions) that nobody ever turns into anything.
Doing anything with them seems too... messy, and a lot of people don’t realize that there’s an asset there in the first place.
In this episode, Matt sits down with Carson Vestergaard, Instructional Designer at TechSmith, who breaks down ...
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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 will make you think a little differently.
Tracie Cantu, Senior Learning Leader and author of Running L&D Like a Business, opens with the idea that when L&D designs for the wrong “customer,” teams end up busy, but not necessarily effecti...
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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?
In this episode, Matt sits down with Stewart Cohen, a filmmaker and photographer whose work spans brands like Coca-Cola, AT&T, and Gatorade, to explore what it really takes to tell a visual story that resonates.
Stewart does a lot marketing work, where 30 seconds is sometim...
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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.
In this episode, we revisit a conversation with Taim Dawod, a medical doctor from Norway who started a medical education YouTube channel in his first year of med school, with no experience in video, editing, or teaching online. What started as a way to...
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We’re in a pivotal moment for learning and development. But is the industry ready for what comes next?
In this episode of The Visual Lounge, Matt sits down with Donald Taylor to unpack the latest findings from the Global Sentiment Survey, one of the longest-running studies tracking trends in L&D, which he co-authored.
With nearly 3,800 responses from over 100 countries, this yea...
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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?
In this episode, Matt sits down with Chris King, Principal Consultant at CRK Learning LLC, to explore how project managers working in L&D can use video to communicate more effectively.
Chris manages a multimillion-dollar e-learning project with a team of around ...
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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, in learning development, or you’re a creator making videos for your own YouTube channel, learning and understanding are non-negotiable.
This idea especially rings true in an age when people consume media across an ever-expanding variety of channels. How do...
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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 down with Gabrielle Dolan, global business storytelling expert and author of eight books, to unpack why storytelling is one of the most underused skills in any professional's toolkit and what to do about it.
Gabrielle shares why personal stories outperform facts and dat...
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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 hold people’s attention long enough to deliver any value.
In this episode, host Matt Pierce shares his tips for writing training video scripts that keep viewers engaged. Drawing on years of scriptwriting experience, Matt breaks down the fundamentals o...
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