Video Transcript
Hello out there.
I am Anders Thompson,
one of the three co-founders here at SlideHub,
and I'm happy to present this month's product update.
This month we have a number of different things.
We have some improvements to the AI experience.
We have some new ways you can use icon colors in SlideHub.
Then we are also happy to present our new email signature feature.
And then last but not least,
one of my colleagues will give you a tip of the month with the
different ways you can use
SlideHub in your day-to-day basis.
One of the things we spent quite a bit of time
on this month was to improve the Text-to-Slide
feature experience.
This included the better handling of Text-to-Links.
So in the past we saw sometimes the slide would have
too much effects compared to the available space.
We also improved the way sources when doing
external searches would be presented in the slide.
Then we improved the image quality.
So in the past we have a tendency that the
image quality was a little bit pixelated,
so that's improved now.
In general we made some different ways in the backend
that should be more stable and avoid some of these
occasional errors.
And then for cases where we have long words with limited space,
we automatically added heighthens to
the text to make them present better.
That's all behind the scenes stuff.
If we look at some of the more direct
changes to the experience of the AI,
one thing we added this month was this idea of layout types.
So why did we actually do this?
The idea with the layout types is that
not all slide designs are equally matching to the
content of a given piece of text or a piece of content.
So for example,
if you are presenting a funnel of some sort,
naturally
you want a different design for that than if you
are doing a comparison between two different items.
And before we didn't actually take that into
consideration when showing the layout options,
but we are doing that now.
So now you will start seeing these different layout categories.
Another thing we've done is that we allow
you as the user to select the type of layout category.
So because the AI is never perfect,
you now have the ability to specify the correct layout type yourself,
so that you are sure you find the
layout type that matches your intent with the slider.
Let's have a look.
Oh,
in this case,
I am sitting in the text to slides here.
I am going to create a
slide that is intended to be presented for the audience,
which outlines the auto business today.
Today's auto business,
number one,
create
product up,
review product roadmap.
So let's just
DRM system for new data properties.
So this is the same as before.
You're also going to see that the AI then evaluates the input.
But where the new thing come in is that now you will see that
the system then suggested this falls into the
bullet point category.
You can see how the different here are the different
actual categories that's available.
We're still building layouts to match within all categories.
But
you can then see this is what the AI sort of
suggested that this was.
In this case, it follows an agenda slide
where you have this indication here.
But since we don't have any agendas,
it just took the bullet points as sort of a fallback option.
You can see here it thinks this is actually a two bullet point item.
But as we know, I should put in three items in.
So I can go now and go in and adjust that.
And then I can find a, I think it's appropriate.
I can just click generate.
And then in this way,
you know,
I get a little bit more control over the experience as a user.
As you can see, it's still, you know, a beta.
There's a lot of things we need to make better.
It's not really to this new type of
layout feature.
There's the layout types.
A lot of more improvements coming,
a lot more designs coming.
But
I think we now have the foundation in
place for expanding upon this a lot more.
All right.
The next thing I want to show is the
ability to change the color of icons.
And specifically the ability to use gradient colors.
So for a long time you have the ability inside of to
go in and change the color of the icons being inserted.
So you don't manually have to
do it yourself.
So like here I can pick a color.
I can insert an icon.
It will then be changed.
The same thing I can also do for gradients.
I can actually do this while replacing the icon directly.
So in case I go in.
Now I'm inserting it.
For instance, I want to replace.
I go in here.
And let's say I want a gradient color to be added here.
Find the standard icons.
I pick a new color here.
So let's do something that looks.
I can go in and determine the direction of the gradient.
You can see it changes a little bit over here.
Then I go back.
And then when I insert the icon now.
You can see it
applies the gradient to the icon automatically.
The icon will,
you know,
remember the color setting.
So
whatever had the last time be saved.
So when going in here,
you can see it's still there.
So let me do something.
I don't know.
Put it R.
It goes in and it applies automatically.
Yeah.
So that works.
It gives you a lot more freedom to have more
creative icon styles in your frame palette.
Yeah.
The next thing I want to present is our new email signature feature.
So as some of you might know,
we had a mixed add-in for Outlook for quite a long time.
We also had the ability to have personal
placeholders to be used in Word documents and slides.
Now we're sort of combining those two things in an ability
to have a consistent email signature across the organization.
The way it works is that whenever you start,
if everything is configured from the end user perspective,
whenever you start
your email,
the default company email will then be pulled in automatically.
It works on,
you know, web, desktop,
mobile devices, and so forth.
So usually we'll always be able to see
the email before sending something out.
The first time a user sees this,
if some of the information is not in the
system yet in order for it to be pre-populated,
you'll have a notification where they can go in and change this.
So for example,
I can go in and say,
I actually want my
email to look like this and click save the info.
I can insert the
signature and you can see it then becomes inserted in the right way.
Hey there, this is Luke.
I'm a customer success manager here at SlideHub.
And today I was going to show you how
to use your company colors on icons.
So icons that you can take off the shelf from
SlideHub that have in your chosen company color.
So as you may know,
I mean,
right now we're in Acme Logistics,
which is a demo company.
If I go to take an inspiration slide,
if I just take this one here,
for example,
it would adjust and insert because the company
colors font and layout has been set up.
But let's say,
you know,
if we just took a new slide,
so I've got a blank one here,
and then I wanted to start adding icons or to a pre
-existing slide and I wanted to start adding icons.
I can go to this part of the SlideHub dashboard,
the third one down,
icons, flags and logos.
Here are,
you know,
images of basically,
you know,
your own company library.
But if you wanted to use SlideHub's off the shelf ones,
you can go here.
And then up at the top right,
you'll see something called color settings.
We click on this,
you'll see here is the company master and the
palette that has been built into the account.
And I can choose a shade for the company colors.
So I can take this one, for example,
and I could apply,
I could even apply gradients as well.
So I could,
you know,
these are the two standard ones that are chosen,
like orange to black.
Or I can have,
as it was before,
no color adjustments. If we just take the solid color and I take this shade,
this means when I go to insert,
let's say we insert these three.
Or, you know,
you can also search and insert the chest,
for example.
And look in here.
And then these are now in the chosen company color.
So yeah, thanks for listening.
And I hope you have a nice day.
All right.
That was
everything for this month.
Thanks for tuning in.
I look forward to giving you another update next month.
Have a wonderful February.
Take care.
Bye bye.
