# How Udacity uses Beautiful

**30%**: “probably 30%— helping them design their slides than what I would in Google Slides”

As published on [beautiful.ai](https://www.beautiful.ai/customers/udacity), January 2024. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-09.

- Company: [Udacity](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/udacity.md)
- Tool: [Beautiful](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/beautiful.md)
- Industry: [EdTech & E-learning](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/edtech-e-learning.md)
- Teams: Curriculum managers, Instructors

## What the story says

Udacity's curriculum managers and instructors use Beautiful.ai to build the slide decks for their online courses. They locked templates to control colors and fonts, collaborate live in the cloud, and edit slides during recordings.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Beautiful and Udacity, not ours.

> With Beautiful.ai they were able to lock the template and control everything down to the colors and fonts— and it saves the team a significant amount of time without them having to think about it.

- **two hours**: “In fact, Ben said that the ability to make updates while an instructor is recording saves them up to two hours without having to reload the slides and start over.”

> Beautiful.ai allows you to tell a better story with less effort and more impact
>
> Ben Hommerding, Curriculum Manager

Source: [beautiful.ai](https://www.beautiful.ai/customers/udacity), captured 2026-10-09.

> The one feature that is the most helpful are the smart slide templates. The quality of the ready-made templates and the ease of designing something complicated really quickly is a game-changer.
>
> Ben Hommerding, Curriculum Manager

Source: [beautiful.ai](https://www.beautiful.ai/customers), captured 2026-10-03.

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-09.

- Checked: the figure 30% is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Udacity.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Udacity.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Udacity uses Beautiful. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-09.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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