![]() (Google was a little more creative and called its whiteboard product Jamboard.) But if you're visiting this article, you either don't want to use these built-in tools, you aren't locked into a tool like Microsoft Whiteboard or Jamboard because of your existing work setup, or you need a dedicated online whiteboard tool that offers more advanced or specific features. Zoom has Zoom Whiteboard, Microsoft Teams has Microsoft Whiteboard (which is also a standalone app), and Webex has, you guessed it, a feature called Whiteboard. Similarly, most online conferencing software and office suites have a whiteboard built in. InVision Freehand for annotating design files with a team Stormboard for creating multiple whiteboards in a single brainstorming session I'd be happy to work with a team using any of these picks. I've been working remotely for my entire tech writing career-more than a decade now-so I have a lot of experience with testing apps and actually using online collaborative tools. I tested dozens of online whiteboards to find the best ones for a variety of needs. Online whiteboards are necessary because fast, easy, and visual collaboration is too important not to have a virtual option, especially when you can't guarantee all your colleagues will be in the same place on any given day. This means that tools like the whiteboard-a staple of meeting spaces-have officially taken the digital leap. Mood boards can be really useful design tools, especially early in the design process.Office work has been back for a year or two, but it's still not how it was before 2020. In today’s post I will give you guidance on how to create your own mood boards using Canva’s whiteboard feature. I have actually written a guide on creating report mood boards in a past blog post. As much as I think the approach I laid out for the report mood board can be useful, I think it misses a bit of the point in creating mood boards in the first place. What is a mood board?Ī mood board is a type of visual presentation or ‘collage’ consisting of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition. It can be based on a set topic or can be any material chosen at random. A mood board can be used to convey a general idea or feeling about a particular topic. They may be physical or digital, and can be effective presentation tools. There is a time in every design process where you’re trying to get a sense for what exactly you are creating. It’s usually after you’ve come up with a design challenge and scope but before you’ve narrowed down potential design solutions. Often during this time you’ll have a bunch of ideas floating around in your head, but nothing substantial to share with colleagues. This is the perfect opportunity to dump all your ideas into a mood board so you can start communicating the general feel behind the potential design. Showing your work early and often (even before you have a concept) can help get your team on board with whatever crazy/not-so-crazy ideas you have floating around your head. So before we jump in, just know that Canva has a huge post on creating mood boards. My problem with Canva’s post is that their mood boards are too polished. It’s the same problem I had with my own report mood board guide.īut let’s get messy. Start with a Canva Whiteboardīefore Canva introduced whiteboards you had to pick specific dimensions before you could start a project. But with the whiteboard feature you don’t have those limits. I suggest starting with a Blank Whiteboard. While there technically are Moodboard templates, they pin you down too much to be useful for this kind of free form design. ![]() ![]() Drop stuff on the board.įor a good board you just want to drop in a bunch of sample images, photographs, fonts, colors, quotes, etc. The goal is to create a feel for what you’re trying to create. The example I show here is really just a mood board I created prior to creating this mood board blog post. So it’s a mood board for a mood board post. Here is the cool thing about this being digital.
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