The Challenge: Understanding Complex Diagrams Without Live Meetings
Highly technical diagrams—such as ERDs, cloud architectures, and complex user flows—often require live walkthroughs to fully understand. When stakeholders open these diagrams asynchronously, they can feel overwhelmed by the complexity and lack the necessary context to interpret decisions, intent, and flow.
While video integrations exist today, they sit outside the diagram experience and do not fully solve the problem of contextual understanding.
The Core Problem: The Context Gap
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Fragmented workflows: Creating an explanation requires switching tools, recording separately, and linking content back—adding friction and discouraging frequent updates.
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Passive explanations: Video overlays don’t move with the diagram, forcing users to mentally map commentary to visuals.
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Meeting dependency: Teams still rely on synchronous meetings just to explain asynchronous documentation, reducing the value of visual collaboration.
The Idea: Lucid “Follow Me”
If Lucid introduces a feature called “Follow Me” (or a different name) which is a native, context-aware board walkthrough experience that records both the creator’s voice and their exact interaction with the canvas. This will be a game changer for Lucid as users need not to use third party app (and my org doesn’t allow) and viewers can follow what instructor is doing.
