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Welcome to the Lucid for Product and UX Group!

Hi there, welcome to the Lucid for Product and UX Group! This space is dedicated to Product Managers and UX Designers looking to make the most out of Lucid while connecting and helping each other 😃 Lucid empowers Product and UX teams at different stages of product development and UX design process, from ideation and planning to launching and monitoring. No matter how you use Lucid, this is the right place to exchange experiences with Product and UX peers while learning (and teaching!) how to leverage our platform to design stellar products and provide the best user experience! 💡 Use this space to… Stay tuned for product updates and new resources Search for solutions Give your feedback Share tips and tricks Grow your expertise around Lucid products 📣 We’re excited to hear from you If you’re new here, share with us: Who you are: Introduce yourself to the Community and tell us your name and role. What you think: Post your questions or feedback on how we can best support you. 🚀 Let’s get started! Check out these community posts and add your ideas: Run engaging retrospective meetings using Lucidspark Stay aligned with Timelines! Maximize your user feedback sessions with Visual Activities

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Enhancing Tags in Lucid – We Need Your Input!

Hello everyone! Do you rely on tags in Lucid to organize or analyze your work? Ever wished for more flexibility or better visibility? We’re exploring ways to improve tagging (especially on sticky notes) and would love your input! If you're open to a quick chat, reply here or DM me. Looking forward to your thoughts! Thanks,Zaq

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Mousewheel panning direction

Hey there, Can i reverse the direction of the panning that happens when i press the middle mousebutton? i want it to move in the direction like when i double click mousewheel, like dragging the document instead of moving in the direction the cursor points. I've read related topics but these are +8 months old. Is this option availble yet? Thankyou! (ps. please highlight required fields, i was trying to skip the category since i have no idea what category this falls in to)

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Diagram Matrix

How can I create a functional relationship diagram DIAGRAM MATRIX?

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What UX research methods and techniques do you swear by?

Hello team, UX research provides unique insights into users’ pain points, preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. What methods and techniques do you use, and how do they help you create truly user-centered products? Here are some of the most common UX research methods and techniques. This is not an exhaustive list, so feel free to chime in and add any methods or techniques you think are missing.

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What UX research methods and techniques do you swear by?

Hello team, UX research provides unique insights into users’ pain points, preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. What methods and techniques do you use, and how do they help you create truly user-centered products? Here are some of the most common UX research methods and techniques. This is not an exhaustive list, so feel free to chime in and add any methods or techniques you think are missing. Methods Techniques Qualitative User Interviews Quantitative Field Studies Attitudinal Focus Groups Behavioral Surveys Generative Card Sorting Evaluative Usability Testing A/B Testing Concept Testing

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Exciting Update: Profile Shapes MVP is Live 🙌🏽

Hey everyone! 🌟 We’ve just rolled out something new, and we’re excited to see what you think! Introducing Profile Shapes —designed to bring a little more personality and connection to our team spaces. But enough about us, let's talk about you! How do you think adding Profile Shapes could change the way you collaborate? Do you think it’ll make those team meetings feel a bit more personal, or maybe help you quickly spot who’s leading which section of a document? Here’s what’s new: Drag & Place Avatars: You can now easily drag an avatar from the top right toolbar and drop it wherever you like on the canvas. Easy Profile Switching: Switch between user profiles without the hassle of uploading images from Slack—super quick and easy! Placeholder Profiles: Need a blank slate? We’ve got you covered with a "blank" profile shape for placeholders, perfect for our upcoming team-centric templates. We’d love to hear your thoughts! How do you see yourself using these features? Or maybe you have some

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Elevate your workflow with the Story Map template

Hey team 👋🏽 I want to share a tool that's been a game-changer for us: the story map template. Whether you're a product manager or a UX writer, this template can significantly boost how we prioritize user needs and streamline our development process. What is a Story Map Template? The story map template is a visualization tool designed to keep users' needs front and center. It breaks down high-level activities (what users can do in the product) into smaller tasks and detailed stories (specific user interactions). This approach ensures that every feature we develop delivers real value to our users. Why Use a Story Map Template? Clarify the backlog: to organize and prioritize tasks, making the backlog more manageable. Focus on user value: to understand user interactions, we can prioritize features that matter most to them. Team alignment: To set clear priorities so hybrid or dispersed teams can align on the most important tasks for upcoming sprints. If you want to learn how to implement

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💡 Enhance your sprint cycles with 7 Lucidspark templates!

Streamline your Agile workflow with these 7 customizable templates. Here’s how you can use those as blueprints for every phase of the sprint cycle—from backlog planning to retrospectives: Backlog Planning Template: Define goals, discuss initiatives, and brainstorm as a team. Backlog Refinement Template : Evaluate and prioritize tasks by relevance and importance. Sprint Estimation Template : Assess high-priority tasks and prepare for sprint planning. Sprint Planning Template : Set deliverables, prioritize features, and clarify task details. Daily Standup Template : Track daily progress, plan current tasks, and identify blockers. Sprint Review Template : Present completed work, outline next steps, and gather stakeholder feedback. Sprint Retrospective Template : Reflect on past sprints and identify areas for improvement. Click on the links above to create a Lucidspark board from those templates, adapt them to your needs, and share the result with us! And if you have a Sprint Retrospective

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Speed up your mind mapping process with Collaborative AI 🦾

Raise your hand if you can relate🙋: You’re overwhelmed with your daily tasks, and you have to start a mind map to present it to the team, but you don’t even know how to start 😕 We have a new feature for you: Lucidspark's Mind Map tool utilizes Collaborative AI to suggest ideas and questions to build out mind maps quickly! Additionally, Collaborative AI can summarize the mind map once all ideas have been added. Have you tried it? Let us know what you think in the comments below. To read more about mind maps, click on our other article here .

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Don't forget to submit your boards to the retro challenge!

🚨CALLING OUR CREATIVE PRODUCT/UX USERS🚨 We want to see your creative ideas for retrospectives in Lucidspark! You have one more week to submit boards to the contest . Remember, winners will have their boards published in the Lucid template library and will win a Cotopaxi backpack! Check out examples and submit your board here: https://community.lucid.co/p/retrochallenge

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Introducing the 2024 Sprint Retrospective Board Challenge! 💥

Calling all Agile Lucid users: we want to see your most creative retrospective ideas! 👀 Bring your most imaginative ideas for an engaging sprint retrospective to life on a Lucidspark board, then submit it on this page for the chance to have your board published in Lucid – and even win a Cotopaxi backpack. You have two weeks to submit–ready, set, go! 🔥 https://community.lucid.co/p/retrochallenge

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Generate a diagram with AI and share your experience with the Lucid Community!💡

Hi everyone! It has happened to me more times than I’d like to admit: I had a pretty good idea of the diagram I needed to build but didn’t know exactly how to begin. If you have been there, Lucid's new AI capabilities have just landed to help you get started. Anica has recently posted about using collaborative AI to speed mind mapping , and today I want to talk about our diagram auto-generation feature. For those who may be hearing about this for the first time: yes, it’s as great as it sounds! You can now transform text prompts into Lucidchart diagrams! Once you generate your diagram, you can take it to the next level by iterating on the output. Have you already tried it? Share your thoughts, tricks, or screenshots of your AI-generated diagram in the comments below. Haven't tried it yet? Give it a shot! Open a Lucidchart document > select the Generate diagram icon > enter a text prompt describing the diagram you want to generate > click Generate . And then come back to share your impr

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Wanted: Enterprise users who use Google Sheets -> Would you like 2-way synching?

👋Hello community users! Are you an Enterprise user? Do you regularly import data from Google Sheets? Have you ever wished that edits made in Lucidchart push back to the source spreadsheet? 🎉 Good News! We’ve been working to enable 2-way data syncing between Lucidchart and our Google Sheets extension and are looking for volunteers to test this new functionality. If you’re interested in participating please fill out this form to sign up!

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Boost team productivity with Collaborative AI in Lucidspark!

Hi everyone! Have you experienced Collaborative AI in Lucid? With Collaborative AI, teams can streamline their brainstorming process and achieve better results in less time. You can also uncover key themes and rapidly summarize working sessions so teams can easily find the big picture and confidently kick off projects. Here are some ways you can leverage this powerful tool 🤓: Kick off a brainstorming session or a project by using Collaborative AI to generate ideas for your team. By entering relevant keywords or phrases into the text box and clicking 'generate', AI will automatically populate related ideas on your Lucidspark canvas as sticky notes. Next step: Iterating ideas after ideation! You can select one or more sticky notes on your canvas and generate even more related ideas! To better organize ideas and increase the process efficiency, this tool can help users sort their ideas by automatically categorizing sticky notes within Containers. Need an easy idea summarization without t

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Streamlining documentation: Share your workflow tips!

Hey everyone! Alright, so we all know how crucial documenting technical requirements is. When you’re working on product development and UX design, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds of a project. Plus, there are often so many talented team members coming from diverse backgrounds (engineers, designers, product managers, etc.), and it’s important to make sure they’re all on the same page. So, with that in mind, we want to know your workflows for documenting technical requirements! On our teams at Lucid, we (roughly) follow these three steps: Product and design teams use wireframes to visualize desired experiences. This also helps engineers understand the project and identify the technical systems that will be affected. Then the engineers create data flows and visualize architecture in Lucidchart. They can automatically generate UML or ER diagrams to quickly visualize plans. From there, engineer teams can align and relay technical requirements. Using the product diagrams as a reference, e

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Stay aligned with Timelines!

If you work with Product or UI/UX teams, Timelines feature is right for you! You can visualize impediments, milestones, and categorize the tasks by status, assignee, or estimate. With this feature, you can manage tasks, oversee projects, and provide clarity to the whole team! Check this Help Center article for more clarity to use this feature. The Timelines feature also works smoothly with the Lucid Cards feature. It will allow you to create and assign tasks needed in preparation for the next design sprint. You can import data from multiple sources, including: Jira Smartsheet Azure DevOps CSV files For more information on these integrations in Lucid Cards, take a look at this Help Center article. What is your favorite aspect of the Timelines feature? 😎

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What is your go-to Lucid template to run effective meetings?

Hey everyone! Do you have a go-to Lucid template you rely on to facilitate group discussions and workshops? 🤓 One of my favorites is the Parking lot matrix template. It helps groups keep discussions focused and meetings on track while providing a place to capture the great ideas and tangent thoughts that inevitably come up when talented brains come together! You can try out this template here and browse other template options in the Lucidspark Template Gallery ! 💡 Now it’s your turn: Share your must-try template in the comments so we can give it a shot! 💡

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How do you facilitate design workshops? Tell us your process!

Hey all! Facilitating design workshops is such an important part of product/UX teams’ workflows. Especially when it comes to facilitating great collaboration! When you bring creative individuals together and get them working on a shared visual canvas, magic happens. We use Lucid to facilitate design workshops. This is our process: We outline the problems and define goals. Lucid’s flexible canvas allows us to organize sticky notes into clear frames, import key data, and share files for team reference. This outlining method lets us gather all the necessary context in one shared place Then we generate ideas, build on inspiration, and sketch out basic mocks. Lucid’s design thinking workshop template provides the basic structure to run a brainstorming and design session with your team, all from one shared space. From there, we start making decisions. We use voting and Visual Activities to organize and rank ideas, vote on the best ones, and build consensus quickly. What once took 90 minutes

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Run engaging retrospective meetings using Lucidspark

Give everyone a voice and improve engagement during retrospective meetings by making the most out of Lucidspark’s Team and Collaboration Tools: Set a timer to keep the discussion around each topic focused and on track. Leverage emoji reactions to get a pulse on how each collaborator feels while identifying the most popular ideas. Add comments to call out action items and assign tasks to collaborators. Voilá! 🎉 Your team is ready for a new cycle of iteration toward continuous improvement! What about your tips? Share below how you use Lucidspark to lead your team to look ahead through looking back!

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Visualize and organize your backlog with Lucid Cards for Jira💡

Streamline your backlog refinement meetings and facilitate a collaborative decision-making process using Lucid cards for Jira! The trick is to make your product backlog visual, giving transparency to stakeholders as your team sees the bigger picture and aligns on the next steps. First, import your backlog items into Lucidspark to display them as cards. From there, you can organize items around sprints, determine dependencies, set actionable goals, and keep track of progress. For detailed steps, check out this Help Center article ! If you need an inspiration boost, take a look at this blog post ! We want to hear from you – how do you use Lucid Cards to manage your backlog?

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Applying Scrum to UX Design: Best Practices

Did you know Lucidspark offers Scrum board templates to help manage sprints, plan and review meetings, and stay work-focused? This solution allows teams to prioritize tasks and keep track of goals, progress and individual commitments. Here are some reasons why Lucidspark is an excellent tool for creating Scrum boards: You can update your Scrum board in real time, allowing remote collaboration and tracking individual collaborators' edits. Add sticky notes with tasks, and then add each task to your product backlog for your team to get started. Collaboration tools like @mention comments, in-editor chat, and emoji reactions allow teams to share ideas and feedback while keeping track of project needs. Connect with powerful integrations like Google Drive and Slack! You can also export your Scrum board to Lucidchart for polished deliverables and access a broader range of creative tools. Users can build Scrum task boards from scratch or use pre-made templates. Explore our template gallery on t

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How do you use Lucid for product planning? Share your best tips!

Hey everyone—let’s talk about product planning! I want to know: What features, integrations, templates, or tips do you use in product planning? 🤔 We’ll start with a couple of tips from Lucid’s product team: Tip #1: Prioritize ideas with Visual Activities! After our initial product planning workshop, we need a way to narrow down ideas. Visual Activities allows us to gather input from everyone and rank ideas to come to a consensus. Reaching a group decision used to take us hours of discussion but now is quick and painless. Try out an impact vs. effort activity here ! Visual Activities helps us gather everyone’s input and prioritize product ideas faster than ever! Tip #2: Use timelines and templates to easily create a roadmap. We start with a template—like this customizable roadmap template —to map out timelines, assign roles, and track tasks so everyone is on the same page. Check out more ways our product and UX teams use Lucid . Now it’s your turn! Share your ideas in the comments belo

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We want to know: How do you design your customer journey maps?

Hi everyone! I wanted to get your thoughts on designing customer journey maps. Do you swear by any features, templates, tips, integrations, or capabilities for the customer journey mapping process? 🤔 Lucid’s product team tackles this process in four steps: Capture insights from user interviews in Lucid Create personas and map user experiences Align on what users are experiencing and make decisions based on actual customer experience and data Turn those insights into impactful changes Here’s one of the templates they use to map the customer journey ! Check out more ways our product and UX teams use Lucid . I’d love to hear more about your experience and tips! Share your thoughts in the comments! 👇

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Have you heard about our color-coded branches in Mind Maps? Share your hacks!🧠

A Mind Map, also known as a concept map, is a visual tool that can be used to organize and connect different parts of a central idea or theme. This tool is useful for brainstorming, problem-solving, and organizing complex information.💁 One helpful feature of mind maps is the ability to hide certain branches and make only some visible, which can simplify your work without losing essential information. Have you used Mind Maps in Lucidspark? Share your experience in the comments below ! 👇

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How does Lucidspark help you drive group decision-making?

Lucidspark provides various resources to encourage participation and facilitate decision-making in group working sessions. My favorite ones revolve around voting tools: Private voting: collaborators can vote anonymously. Current selection voting: allows to restrict voting to selected items on the board. Timer: sets a time limit for wrapping a voting session up. What about yours? Comment below your favorite tools and tips to make decisions using Lucidspark!

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