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Hey all,I’m picking up and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. How do you stay productive while learning something new? Any tips or habits that actually work?

Hi everyone!I am excited to be writing my first post here in the Lucid Community. My name is Denia, and I'm the Director of Customer Success at airfocus. At airfocus, we are all about giving product teams a modern, modular home for product management. Our mission is to help teams manage strategy, understand user needs, prioritize, and align their roadmaps.Now that we are part of Lucid, our focus is on helping our customers bring together Lucid’s visual collaboration and airfocus’s product management solution, a game-changing combo for product teams everywhere.What to Expect in Future PostsMy team is excited to share actionable insights that will help you build better products, and we will be posting content such as prioritization framework tips, going from whiteboard to roadmap with Lucidspark and airfocus, gaining stakeholder alignment, and more.Let’s Connect!I would love

Ever feel like you’re playing a game of hide-and-seek with your project documentation? You waste hours digging through folders and chasing down stakeholders for access, plummeting your momentum. According to a recent study commissioned by Lucid, the top barrier to following processes is simply not knowing where to find documentation.Insert: process repository. Think of a process repository as your organization’s single source of truth, providing a centralized home for every workflow and strategy. Building one can initially be a heavy lift, but it has a big payout. Process repositories conn

Picture this: A project kicks off with perfect energy, only for a mid-sprint change request to derail your velocity and scramble your dependencies. Sound familiar? Engineering is complex enough without the added friction of misalignment, outdated documentation, and siloed coordination. When teams rely on dense text or tribal knowledge, critical context falls through the cracks, turning minor shifts into major roadblocks. 😵‍💫To maintain momentum, engineering teams need a living blueprint. In Lucid, you can transform static docs to a single source of truth. Features like

Hi everyone,I’ve recently started using Lucidchart to map out a large cross-team workflow, and the diagram is getting bigger than expected. I’m trying to keep everything readable, but once multiple layers and decision paths are added, it starts feeling cluttered.For those experienced with large diagrams: Do you prefer containers or nested pages for organizing major sections? How do you maintain clarity when multiple teams need to collaborate and edit the same diagram? Any Lucid best practices for scaling a diagram without losing structure? Additionally, I’m upgrading my home setup and researching the best pc gaming computer that can handle heavy design work, multitasking, and occasional gaming. If anyone here uses Lucid on a high-performance machine, your hardware suggestions would be appreciated.

As we continue adding value to the Agility Accelerator, we want to demonstrate recent feature enhancements—including tools for capacity planning and scenario planning.Join me and other Lucid experts for a live demo, and learn how teams use Agility Accelerator features and key Lucid integrations to streamline big room planning, team-level events, and more! Get to know Lucid’s Agility AcceleratorDecember 11, 202511 a.m. MT (1 p.m. ET)Register nowSee how this Lucid Suite add-on can increase efficiency, alignment, and visibility throughout your org.P.S. If you ca

Thank you for joining us for our webinar, “How Lucid supports enterprise architects”! (If you didn’t have the chance to join, you can access the webinar on demand here.) Check out these additional resources: Features mentioned during the webinarLucid Ardoq integration The Ardoq + Luc

It’s a fact: visuals are the powerhouse of effective communication. And now, with AI, we can generate them in seconds! At Lucid, we are all about helping teams collaborate visually and efficiently, so we know the massive time-saver AI can be for this.Specifically, with Lucid AI, teams can rapidly create complex visuals, saving countless hours. That speed is incredible for prototyping or transforming a text outline into a diagram. But how do you know if AI is the best route for what you’re trying to create?I broke this down in a recent

Documenting your enterprise architecture is no easy feat. But with a solution like Lucid, it becomes much more efficient. In our upcoming webinar, we’re talking about how Lucid, and its integration with Ardoq, can help make your enterprise architecture documentation more visual and collaborative. During the webinar, we will cover documenting and standardizing architecture, comparing future states, creating a single source of truth, and streamlining stakeholder approval. See you there! How Lucid supports enterprise architectsDecember 4, 2025 at 11 a.m. MT (1 p.m. ET) 👉 

If you’ve ever tried to document a process, then you know that it can sometimes be a messy operation. But good documentation is the key to smooth operations and mutual alignment within a team or organization.We recently posted an article about our top eight Lucid features to make business process documentation a breeze.Here’s a sneak peek:Actions: Quickly perform certain actions with shapes on your board. Conditional Formatting: Set up specific rules to automatically highlight elements in your documentation that need your attention. Dynamic shapes: Bring your data to life to visually represent statistics or percentages, making your documentation more engaging. Layers: Organize your documentation with Layers to show different phases or det

Mapping your enterprise architecture is no small task, but the payoff is exponential. I’ve spent 18 years working with Fortune 100 companies, and I’ve seen firsthand how enterprises struggle to bring clarity into their systems. Luckily, building your enterprise architecture doesn’t have to be a massive undertaking. In a recent article, I shared a six-step process for developing a streamlined and collaborative enterprise architecture repository.  Step 1: Define the purpose and scope. Purpose drives participation!Step 2

All about meeting agendas (+ templates!) Whether you need a place to host an activity, take notes, or present a slide deck, Lucid does it all! But one thing every meeting needs? An agenda!Agendas aren’t always prioritized, but they are associated with a number of benefits, like:Promoting focus Optimizing time Encouraging preparation and participation Prioritizing the most important topics, so attendees leave with actionable next stepsIn our new article, we share many of our powerful agenda templates to help you prepare for increased productivity. Here are just a couple:One-on-one meeting agendaThis template is perfect for one-on-one meetings and offers space to discuss career growth, wins and blockers, and more. Strategic alig

Thank you for joining us for our webinar, “PI planning reimagined”! (If you didn’t have the chance to join, you can access the webinar on demand here.)Check out these additional resources on the features we covered during the webinar:Facilitator Tools Embedded links

PI planning is a great way to align cross-functional teams and connect strategy to execution,  but it can be a difficult event to facilitate with so much complexity involved. How can you host a PI planning session that’s engaging and effective? In our upcoming webinar, we’re joining forces with Scaled Agile to show how you can facilitate PI planning sessions that increase alignment and sync with your existing system of record. You’ll learn how to visualize dependencies, keep plans up to date, and standardize your processes for effective PI planning. Register today! PI planning reimagined November 20, 2025 at 11 a.m. MT (1 p.m. ET)👉

Happy Wednesday, Lucid community! If you've ever hosted a large team session, you probably know the feeling of excitement quickly turning into a scramble. Sticky notes pile up, voices get lost, and then the initial energy dissipates. It's frustrating and inefficient. Enter breakout boards.This fantastic capability lets you leverage the power of smaller groups to drive greater alignment and engagement. And who doesn’t love that? Essentially, breakout boards are pri

The engineering world is a constant balancing act between accuracy, velocity, and standardization.  I recently broke down the challenges in a blog post. Here’s the rundown: Accuracy: Maintaining a single source of truth is challenging with numerous documents being shuffled around and important context being lost in various threads. In fact, a study commissioned by Lucid uncovered that 44% of knowledge workers identified misalignment as a major workflow blocker. 

Hey Lucid Community! As a senior engineer at Lucid, I know the pains of messy diagrams. Shapes everywhere, lines breaking, and nothing makes sense when you need clarity the most. Enter: Auto line routing As part of our assisted layout feature, auto line routing helps you instantly clean up chaotic diagrams, making the logic easy to follow and saving you precious time. Here’s the hack: highlight the diagram you want to rearrange, then select Ar

Agentic AI has incredible transformative power, but building agents is only half the battle. You’ll need context in order to effectively integrate those agents into your business. In our upcoming webinar, we’ll show you how to use Lucid to create the context needed at every stage of AI transformation, from documenting processes to planning and executing AI implementation strategies.Join us for real-world examples and templates to get started!Beyond the hype: How Lucid supports AI transformationNovember 6, 2025  at 11 a.m. MT (1 p.m. ET)👉

Having a thorough understanding of your organization’s structure is a critical tool for an organization of any size. With org charts in Lucidchart you can quickly see who reports to whom and get clarity during the hiring process by easily identifying gaps within your organization. But many modern organizations aren’t always captured with the typical top-down hierarchical model. In particular hierarchical org charts can fall short when you need to visualize the cross-functional ways team members work. For example at Lucid our product developers work in SCRUM teams. Each SCRUM team consists of a product manager two or three software developers one or two quality assurance specialists and a UX designer. This means individual members from four different departments are regularly collaborating on a project but this collaboration isn’t easily represented by the traditional top-down org chart. That’s why we created

Color is a powerful, often subconscious tool that significantly improves comprehension (up to 73%!).Think about your most recent Lucid document you created; you likely used color without even realizing it. From sticky notes to frames to shapes, color is all around. To help you effectively leverage color,  here are some quick tips for how to use color in your Lucid boards. Red: Highlight prioritiesOrange: Use in icebreakers and brainstormsYellow: Draw attention to items that need more inputGreen: Show progress updates and highlight project statusBlue: Gain consensus, give feedbackPurple: Inspire  imaginative thinking

Have you ever sat down at your desk in the morning, ready for the day, only to wonder what you’re actually supposed to be working on? It’s probably safe to say we’ve all been there. I know I have. One highly effective way to mitigate confusion and boost clarity is with a team huddle meeting. These quick, daily meetings are the ultimate pulse check for team alignment and productivity. Even a 10-minute huddle can:⚡ Boost accountability. 📩 Reduce unnecessary communication. 🤝 Promote better collaboration.I recently wrote an article all about team huddles, as well as included some templates that you and your teams can use to make checking in a breeze. My personal favorite template is the team huddle board. It’s got everything you

Tired of projects getting bogged down by delays? You’re not alone. Lags in stakeholder approval can cost organizations a lot of time and money. Luckily, there are a few smart tips I have to share with you that will help significantly speed up this process! Use a template to map stakeholder involvement from the get-go. Visualize the process you want approval on and share it with stakeholders. Keep documentation in a central location. Communicate the process’s value. Leverage Lucid’s Process Accelerator to standardize processes, facilitate feedback, and more.Explore our

Grab your latte* and don’t be late! Be the first to see new Lucid capabilities to accelerate your work.The agenda for this 90-minute virtual event will include a keynote and three breakout sessions that will help you:🧠 Take advantage of AI and intelligent features across the Lucid Suite.🔨 Build the right products—faster.➡️ Scale process management.Join us and learn how Lucid can help drive your business forward! Lately @ Lucid: Accelerating transformation through intelligenceEMEA: October 1, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. CESTAmericas:

Did you know that Lucid isn’t just for work? You can use Lucid to plan family trips, visualize your home renovation, and even world build for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. In this blog post, Lucidites share over ten unique ways that they’ve used Lucid for personal projects. Check it out to discover fun use cases such as:  Ranking nearby chicken restaurants  Mapping out wedding venues  Using