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We are thrilled to share a new tool for our MCP server & Claude, the ability to convert Claude-generated diagrams directly into Lucid documents! OverviewClaude allows teams to brainstorm complex systems through inline SVG diagrams, but these visuals were previously limited to static code or screenshots. With this latest update you can now ask Claude to take those generated visuals and instantly transform them into interactive, and editable Lucid diagrams.This feature ensures that your visual assets remain as agile as your text prompts. You focus on the architecture, let Claude and Lucid handle the drawing.How it worksAfter creating a diagram with Claude simply prompt: "Convert this generated diagram into a Lucid document." Claude will securely interface with Lucid to create the diagram so you can further customize and edit your diagram. Claude generated diagramConverted Lucid diagramLearn More Check out our Help Center Article for more information on the Lucid & Claude MCP conn

We know that artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing individual productivity, but has AI adoption translated into org-wide benefits? Or are you stuck somewhere in the messy middle of high-speed chaos with more output, but nothing that scales?In our third Lately @ Lucid webinar of 2026, we covered how Lucid can help your teams visualize systems and processes to drive AI transformation for your org. Documentation is the critical step to bridge the gap between AI adoption at the individual level and institutional level. In order to build documentation that moves the needle at scale, it should be dynamic, connected, and easily governed.This post serves as a roundup of key features you can leverage TODAY to make this a reality for your teams. ⏬ Process AgentWe know that documentation is essential, but it’s also time-consuming to create and quickly goes out of date. Enter Lucid AI’s Process Agent: an interactive assistant designed to help you build comprehensive process diagrams without s

Hi everyone! We’ve all been there: You want the automatic, data-driven power of the Cloud Accelerator, but you also need the flexible, freeform canvas of Lucidchart to build out your project proposals and system maps.  Until now, those two worlds lived in separate products. If you wanted that "auto-magic" cloud visualization, you had to jump straight into the accelerator, separating your infrastructure data from the rest of your documentation.  We’re excited to announce cloud frames in Lucidchart. Think of a cloud frame as a "smart container" that brings the automatic visualization power of the Cloud Accelerator directly onto your Lucidchart canvas.What is a cloud frame?It’s a foundational tool that takes your imported cloud data and applies the rules you configure—like structure and filters—to automatically generate a diagram. Instead of drawing every icon by hand, you let the data do the heavy lifting.How it helps your team:For Cloud Architects & Engineers: Generate live infrastr

In our second Lately @ Lucid webinar of 2026, we explored how to build plans that more easily adapt to change. If you’ve ever spent weeks crafting the "perfect" plan, only for stakeholder priorities to change or the market to shift and your plan to become obsolete, this webinar is for you! You can’t perfectly predict exactly what will happen within your company or industry, so you need easily adaptable plans.  This post is a roundup of Lucid features that can help you solve three of the biggest hurdles to planning: adaptability, alignment, and visibility. Let’s get into it! ⏬ Capacity planningVisualize team bandwidth and plan workload distribution with capacity planning. You can set project and team capacity using story points, and automatically see how reassigning project deliverables influences capacity. It solves the problem of burnout and missed deadlines by identifying who is over-allocated before the work even begins. Adjust capacity and tasks Scenario planningVisualize and compa

🌟 Hello Community! 🌟If you have been using Lucid a lot lately and finding smart ways to make it work for your team, this one’s for you. We have put together a Lucid Power User Kit for all our power users, Admins, Legends, and anyone who wants to take the lead and help their peers get more out of Lucid! Many of you are already the go-to person when it comes to boards, templates, and running collaborative sessions. When you share what is working, it encourages others to try new things and level up how they use Lucid in their own work.This kit is here to support you in that. It includes ready to use learning sessions, practical templates, mini challenges, tips, and simple ways to share best practices with your team. ​​If you are passionate about making the most out of Lucid and helping your team collaborate better, this is the best way to start!>>> You can access the Lucid Power User Kit here <<< 

We’re excited to spotlight one of the members of our Lucid Legend program: ​@JMC 🎉. James Croftson is a Technical Manager and Founding Director in the Energy / Engineering industries. We want to highlight a few specific things that make James “legendary!”🌟James has earned 3 badges and earned over 300 points in the Lucid Legends program! James is a truly active Legend who consistently enriches our seminars and working sessions by sharing his technical expertise, offering insightful feedback, and collaborating seamlessly with his peers. In 2010, James sea-kayaked 3500km around the coast of mainland Britain in just under 20 weeks. Having already cycled east-coast-to-west-coast in a day, and also end-to-end (John o'Groats to Land's End), this made him the first person to go 'across, down and around' Britain under his own steam! Check out James’s badges, post responses, and stats on his profile. You can follow him to receive updates on his posts! Spotlight Story:What do you like best abo

 We’ve all been there: You’re in the middle of a deep-work session, and you need to remember the specific steps of a project kickoff or find that one brainstorm board from three months ago. You stop, open a new tab, dig through folders, and—poof—your focus is gone.We’re excited to announce the Lucid Connector for Claude, a new tool for anyone looking to streamline their daily workflow. Here’s how it helps you streamline your workflow: Locate & summarize documents at the speed of AIWith this new connector, Claude can read your Lucid documents. Instead of scanning a board for information, you can simply locate a document and ask Claude:"Claude, what were the three main action items from this brainstorming board?" "Summarize the project timeline found in this Q3 Planning document."The result is you get the answers you need in seconds, without ever leaving your chat.Seamlessly generate diagrams from textNow, you can describe a process to Claude and ask it to generate a foundational dia

  We are thrilled to unveil this new integration, which acts as a digital bridge between the visual intelligence of Lucid and the conversational power of ChatGPT. By merging these two worlds, you can now locate documents, summarize content, distribute documentation, and generate diagrams without ever leaving your chat, effectively removing the friction between an AI conversation and a finished visual document.Connect to ChatGPT here, or check out this Help Center article for more information. Why use the Lucid ChatGPT app?Context-switching is the ultimate bottleneck to AI-driven productivity. The Lucid ChatGPT app serves as a bridge to your external AI environment. It brings the full power of Lucid’s visual layer directly into the conversational interface you rely on every day.Here are two high-impact ways to start using the Lucid app in ChatGPT today:  Engineering & Solutions ArchitectureStop manual drawing after a long architecture review. You can now transform technical discussi

Introducing the folder owner role for the Process Accelerator! 🎉 Managing a large repository of documentation can be a heavy lift for a single person. To help you scale and ensure the right eyes are on your documents, we’ve introduced a new layer of ownership: folder owners.What is a folder owner?A folder owner is a user who manages and approves documents in their assigned folder or subfolder in a repository. Think of them as the ‘subject matter expert’ for items in their specific folder. How is a folder owner different from a repository owner? How do approval requests differ?Repository owners have more power- they can manage both repositories they own and all folders within them. Folder owners can not manage repositories, they can only manage content in the folders they own.Both roles receive approval requests:Repository owners receive approval requests for all suggested changes to documentation in the repositories they own (including all folders).  Folder owners receive approval req

Announced during the October 1st Lately @ Lucid webinar, Lucid AI builds on our intelligent work acceleration platform to empower teams to create, collaborate, and maximize efficiency. To access Lucid AI, open a Lucidchart document and navigate to the very top of the left-hand panel to open the chat.  From within the Lucid AI chat, type in your prompt and start creating! Here are a few things that Lucid AI can help you with: Create a diagram: Supported diagram types include flowcharts, ERDs, mind maps, and more. Brainstorm: Easily generate and organize ideas. Apply conditional formatting: Save time and ask Lucid AI to create your conditional formatting rules. Ask questions: Ask Lucid AI questions about your document.Update June 22nd, 2026: There are now additional ways you can use Lucid AI! Create a new Lucid board/document: Based on your text description, Lucid AI creates a new Lucid board.  Sort ideas: Sort sticky notes quickly into categories created by AI. Summarize: Large document

Hey Lucid Community!  As a new product manager here at Lucid, I’ve quickly learned that the 'perfect' leadership board is never actually finished. Every time I need to add just one more section for team alignment, I end up in a manual 'spatial Tetris' battle, moving every single element just to create a little breathing room. Does anyone else find themselves spending more time rearranging than actually building? Enter: Nudging 🎉 We built Nudging to act like a "snowplow" for your canvas. Instead of manually rearranging your content to make new space to work with, your containers now do the heavy lifting for you. Here’s how it works: You can toggle Nudging on by dragging a container or frame onto your canvas, then using the contextual panel in Lucidchart or right-clicking on the shape in Lucidspark. Now when you resize a container (horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally), any objects sitting outside that container will automatically move in the direction you’re resizing. Bonus Tip

Hey Lucid Community!We have seen some truly impressive customer diagrams here at Lucid.  There’s the highly technical business architectures and processes, but also (my favorite) using lucid to map out narrative themes and plot points in theater productions or quest trees for homebrewed RPGs.Common to all of these:  "Visual Overload" –  when you share a massive, complex board with a collaborator who just needs the high-level summary. We’ve all been there: either you spend hours creating a "simplified" duplicate version, or you hop on a call and spend 10 minutes saying, "Ignore this part for now..."Enter: Collapse and Expand 🎉  We built Collapse and Expand to act like packing your content into a storage box. Think of it like minimizing a window on your desktop; the work doesn't go away, it’s just neatly tucked into a single container so you can focus on the bigger picture. When you’re ready to dive back into the details, you just "open the box." How it works: Collapse and Expand is ava

We are excited to announce that new versions of the VPAT for Lucidchart and Lucidspark are now available at lucid.co/accessibility. Both the Lucidchart VPAT and Lucidspark VPAT are publicly viewable on our website. Lucid is committed to creating products that are accessible and user-friendly for everyone. Some of the changes to the latest VPATs include:Improved Bypass Block Hotkeys to jump between the canvas and the UI Improved keyboard navigation patterns  For a complete list of FAQ’s, please visit this FAQ document. We would like to share a heartfelt thank you for the engagement and insights we’ve received from community members like yourself. Your contributions have helped us better understand how to make our products more accessible to our users. Thank you for your comments, and please keep them coming in our product feedback space! 

Assisted layout helps to arrange content within Lucid organizers- including swimlanes, frames and all container types. This feature automatically aligns shapes to create a clean, presentable workspace. Assisted layout is also available with AI-generated content, making brainstorming and board organization easy and efficient. What’s new this Lately @ Lucid? Let’s take a look at some of the newest assisted layout features! Resizable containers You can now manually resize assisted layout containers and frames to make more room for your workflows and ideas. You can choose between Fit or Manual in the assisted layout menu. By default, assisted layout containers are set to Manual, allowing you the flexibility to expand the size and shape of your frame. Switching to Fit will automatically resize your container as you add or remove shapes.  Added white space Assisted layout now supports introducing intentional white space onto your canvas to help structure your content visually. For example, a

Swimlanes are a key part of many common diagrams, especially process and flow diagrams- helping to organize steps by team, role, or system.Manually creating these swimlanes can be time-consuming and tedious. You’ve asked for AI to handle this structure automatically, and we’ve listened. We’re happy to announce you can now generate diagrams with swimlanes in Lucid AI! ✨ What’s available today?Lucid AI can now automatically generate swimlanes when creating diagrams. If your prompt includes lanes–or mentions teams, roles, or systems that imply lanes– Lucid AI will add them for you.For now, swimlanes are generated in black and white.What’s coming next?Color and stylized lanes are coming in early January, so stay tuned! 👀We’d love your feedback!Try it out by asking Lucid AI to generate a diagram with simlanes, and let us know:Does this match how you expect lanes to work? What diagram types do you want swimlanes for most? What would make this even more useful?Drop your thoughts below or cre

You may have noticed some new looks to Lucid’s in-editor UI! Let’s take a look at what’s new. ⤵️ File menu in Lucidchart The file menu in Lucidchart has been consolidated. To access the menu options, you can select the hamburger icon to the right of the board title and a vertical drop-down menu will appear. All of the menu options that were previously across the top of Lucidchart are now accessible via the dropdown. Lucidchart menuTo learn more about the menu bar, check out the Welcome to Lucidchart article from the Help Center. Footer The footer in Lucid has also changed! You can manage the pages in your document from the footer including editing and adding pages, editing layers, and managing formulas.  To easily navigate between pages in a large document, select the icon on the bottom left of the footer to see all pages in your document. Lucidchart footerLucidspark page navigation in footerNote: To see your pages in Lucidspark, first create your pages in Lucidchart. Then, using unive

As of March 5th, 2025, the airfocus Chrome extension is no longer active.

Tired of recreating your diagrams or whiteboards? Comak now integrates with Lucidchart to convert your hand-drawn diagrams into modifiable files. Here's how it works:Take a photo of your hand-drawn diagram on any whiteboard or piece of paper. Upload to Comak to generate an editable diagram you can send to Lucidchart. Use Lucidchart to refine your diagram, collaborate, and share with your team.No more manual redrawing. No more starting from scratch. Just upload, convert, and collaborate! Handwritten Lucidchart templateComak outputEdited and polished in Lucidchart Check out the Comak integration page for more instructions and to get started.

You have heard a lot of exciting feature updates from Lucid recently (and if you missed any of the buzz, make sure to take a look at our Lately @ Lucid announcement!). But amid the hype of Lucid AI, assisted layout, and updates to our accelerators, we didn’t want to forget about the small but impactful updates our team has released to make your experience in the core Lucid Suite more delightful.Check out the most recent updates designed to make interactions within Lucid more intuitive and efficient: Text block wrapping: Text blocks automatically wrap after a certain length to make text boxes easier to read.BeforeAfter No dynamic padding in text boxes: Dynamic padding is only added when the font size is set to “auto,” keeping your text box tidier when you go to resize it. Responsive size for inserted images: No more massive images appearing on your board! Images inserted into a Lucid document now maintain an appropriate aspect ratio and a reasonable size relative to existing content on

Announced during the Lately @ Lucid webinar on April 3rd, the Cloud Accelerator is now live and available for purchase by Enterprise-level accounts! For more information, check out the Cloud Accelerator overview help center article. In this post, we’ll be going over some use case examples.Engineering teams know all too well just how quickly their cloud environment changes, and how difficult it can be to keep cloud architecture diagrams in sync. Continually updating these diagrams can feel overwhelming, and maintaining these at scale is often a slow process that lags behind constantly-evolving cloud environments.Too much time is spent verifying the accuracy of architecture diagrams, and since they often don’t reflect real-time changes to the cloud environment, key decisions are often delayed. Even worse, making decisions on inaccurate data can lead to costly rework. These difficulties are often heightened by the fact that cloud visualization tools aren’t flexible enough to adapt to a va

There are many exciting updates here at Lucid since the Lately @ Lucid webinar! Announced on April 3rd, the Agility Accelerator and Cloud Accelerator are now available for Enterprise customers. These new accelerators come along with changes to our home page and how to navigate to team hubs! We’re making it easier than ever for teams to work together on strategic, cross-functional initiatives with Lucid’s team hubs where users can:File and share documents within their own teams Centralize documentation, workflows, and projects to provide teams with a one-stop-shop for team coordination Pin frequently used documents and team spaces for easy reference Spend more time working collaboratively and less time bringing people up to speed or tracking down documentationLet’s take a look at some of the changes you may have already noticed when opening Lucid on an Enterprise account. First, team hubs have moved! We’ve redesigned Lucid’s navigation to make it easier to find and manage your teams. To

We’re making it easier than ever for teams to coordinate and get organized. 🎉 See what’s new with team hubs: Bulk upload teams via CSV: Scale the creation of new teams by enabling admins to bulk upload teams via a CSV file. Pinning: Pin your favorite team hubs, and make it easier to navigate back to those team hubs the next time you open Lucid. Active doc banner: Quickly see which documents other team members are actively working on and join them in real time! New and improved notifications: Get new team-specific notifications and read certain notifications in the editor. Updated all teams page to modal: Simplify navigation by landing on a modal instead of a full page. Updated left nav: Navigate the menu more easily with a tidier view. Comment below to let us know what you think of these updates—and stay tuned for more!

The Process Accelerator is live and available for purchase to Enterprise-level accounts! The Process Accelerator provides organizations with increased governance and standardization in how processes are documented, stored, and maintained. New to the Process Accelerator? This post serves as an overview workflow showing how you can create repositories, update documentation, and utilize the asset library.  Creating a repository A repository is a central hub for finalized documentation. Repositories and all content published in them are accessible to everyone in the organization. Repositories can be organized by department, team, process type, etc. In the example below, there are 11 repositories organized by department.From the repository page, a accelerator manager can create a new repository. When creating a new repository, you must assign a repository owner. Repository owners manage repository settings, review edits to documentation, and can approve submitted content. You can select mul

Last April, we expanded Lucid’s vision as a work acceleration platform powered by visual collaboration. Now, we’re continuing to support users through large-scale initiatives, such as process improvement, agility workflows, and AI transformation. We’re delighted to announce new capabilities to keep accelerating your business forward!  Lucid AINewly announced, Lucid AI builds on intelligent capabilities to help teams maximize efficiency in their work. Lucid AI gives users a unified interface with an AI assistant that can help you:Generate ideas for easy brainstorming. Create diagrams directly on the Lucid canvas and refine them. Apply conditional formatting to save time. Summarize document contents.  Assisted layoutAssisted layout automatically aligns shapes within swimlanes, Containers, and Frames to create a more organized workspace. New assisted layout features have just been announced, including the ability to:Manually resize containers Add or remove empty rows and columns Add shape

A team hub is a central shared space for teams to access important documents, track project progress, and access important links. Recently released, team roles and permissions allow users to assign different levels of control and ownership!  There are two roles - team member and team manager. What are the main differences?Team members are assigned by team managers and can be given the following document permissions:Edit and share Edit Comment ViewTeam managers have all the same document access as team members, and they have access to these additional tools:Determine team type (open, closed, or hidden team) Add or remove team members Manage team documents and document permissions Restore archived items Team roles and permissions streamline the way teams work, supporting collaboration and allowing them to work together faster. To learn more about the various roles and permissions, check out this Help Center article: Use team hubs in Lucid to collaborate and stay organized.  Questions? Co