Case Study: Udacity achieves better storytelling and 30% faster design time with Beautiful.ai

Udacity Leaves Google Slides for Superior Storytelling and Design Impact

Udacity, an online skill-based learning platform, needed a better way to create and manage course slide decks. Using Google Slides gave instructors too much freedom, making it difficult for curriculum managers to maintain branding, consistency, and visual quality across multiple lesson decks.

By switching to Beautiful.ai, Udacity gained stronger template controls, real-time collaboration, and smart slide templates that sped up production. Beautiful.ai helped the team save about 30% of design time, reduce rework, and make updates on the fly without interrupting presentations, resulting in faster, more polished storytelling.

Udacity

Ben Hommerding

Curriculum Manager