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Creating a great diagram is only half the battle; the real magic happens when your team can use it effectively. This walkthrough covers how to professionalize your Lucidchart documents and prep them for seamless sharing across your organization.Key takeaways:Dynamic headers: Set up headers that automatically update with the document name and last modified date. Canvas cleanup: Professional styling tips, including text formatting and disabling auto-tiling for a cleaner workspace. Resource panning: How to add a

Architectural drift is a silent builder of technical debt that occurs when implementations deviate from original designs. To combat this, shift your mindset from reactive compliance to architecture enablement. By building standards directly into the design process, you ensure that the architecture you build is the most efficient and accurate. To improve standardization and maintain a single source of truth, focus on these visual-first strategies: Make documentation visual: Humans process images 60,000 times faster than text, reducing cognitive load and accelerating alignment. Document as you work: Use a universal canvas to transition from brainstorming to diagramming without losing context. Automate with accelerators: Use the Process Accelerator

Want to standardize your workflows and save hours of manual entry? This video walks through the step-by-step process of creating a custom, data-intelligent template in Lucidchart.From setting up dynamic headers to building automated time trackers, these tips will help you turn a standard document into a powerful, reusable tool for your entire team.What’s covered:Template foundation: Perfecting your page settings and creating dynamic document headers. Custom shape libraries: Assigning data fields to shapes and saving them to your own library for easy drag-and-dro

Looking to turn your process maps into living dashboards? This walkthrough demonstrates how to move beyond static shapes and start using custom data-backed templates in Lucidchart to automate your workflow.What you’ll learn:Rapid mapping: Leverage default styles and shape libraries to build out your flow in seconds. Embedded data: Input custom variables, like cycle time and assignees, directly into your shapes. Smart math: Use dynamic counters to automatically c

Hey community 👋The past year, joining the Lucid family, has been a whirlwind. A lot has changed, and it was time to update our “Getting Started with airfocus” video to reflect that. So if you’re still wondering what it is that airfocus offers, or you’re yet to see inside our platform, then take a watch!For nearly a decade, we’ve been committed to uniting ever-evolving product teams around a single source of truth so they can build with confidence. And since last year, we’ve taken that mission further, joining forces with Lucid to span the entire product management cycle – from strategy to ideation to execution – all in one platform.This video is a short, visual overview of how we support product teams to stay connected, data-driven, and customer-focused. 

A go-to-market strategy is only as strong as its execution. When sales, marketing, and customer success teams operate from fragmented documents, alignment becomes nothing more than a pipe dream.True alignment and efficiency require a single source of truth. By centralizing your workflows in a cloud-based environment like Lucid, you eliminate documentation friction and spend more time on high-impact strategy. 🧱I recently published a new process improvement toolkit that provides a library of customizable templates to jump-start your GTM productivity. Here are a few of my favorites:Sales teams

It seems to me like the tutorials for timelines and daily schedules are not quite up-to-date. I’m a new user of Lucid, and trying to create daily schedules, but running into multiple issues: Adjusting the start and end times of a Daily Schedule template messes up the formatting of the entire schedule (doesn’t auto-adjust sizes).  Cannot find “Interval” shape, even when searching in All Shapes, to allow for modifying the start/end time of an interval.   Adjusting the milestone time does not accurately move the milestone marker to the correct position, or it does not save the new time entry and keeps reverting back to default.  Milestone shapes are not automatically grouped, so changing the time of the milestone does not move the associated shape (i.e., the circle). The tutorials show features (e.g., toolbars) that I can’t find. Maybe there’s a SW difference? Are there already solutions to these issues that I’m not

Product development often feels like a constant trade-off between speed and control. As your teams grow, work naturally fragments across different workspaces, business units, and tools.While this distributed approach is great for execution, it creates a massive "visibility gap" for leaders. I’ve spoken with so many of you who spend hours chasing status updates or manually assembling reports that are out of date the second they’re shared.At airfocus, we believe enterprise product management shouldn't be about managing manual overhead—it should be about managing strategy. That’s why I’m incredibly excited to share our new Portfolio management feature set.What’s new?We’ve introduced two core capabilities designed to give you a "bird’s eye view" without losing the connection to team-level execution:Portfolios: Create live, unified views that pull data from across multiple workspaces. Unlike a static roll-up, these are fully inte

Hi everyone!As a CSM here at airfocus, I spend my day talking to teams of all sizes. While every company is unique, they almost all share one universal headache: prioritization.We all know the feeling. You have a backlog that’s a mile long, three different stakeholders "politely" insisting their request is priority, and a dev team that (rightly) wants to know why they are building X instead of Y.Why is prioritization so hard?In my experience, it usually boils down to three things:The "Loudest Voice" Trap: Decisions often get made based on who is shouting the loudest (or who has the highest job title), rather than what actually moves the needle. Analysis Paralysis: Teams try to use complex spreadsheets that are impossible to maintain, leading to "gut feel" decisions when the data becomes too messy. The Strategy Gap: I

We’re excited to announce that version history has been added to the Process Accelerator! 🎉 What is version history?Version history allows you to view past versions of published repository documents. You can now compare the published document to previous versions to understand changes over time, spot meaningful differences, and assess impact.  Who has access to version history?Any user on your Lucid account with access to the Process Accelerator has access to view the version history of published repository documents.  How do I access version history?You can access version history through the new Repositories

We are excited to announce object assets for accounts with the Process Accelerator! 🎉 Object assets are standardized, reusable objects with predefined data structures, improving consistency and reducing duplication. They allow for data object modeling in Lucid.Let’s dive in to learn more!  ⤵️ What are object assets?

Have you ever received an email from an external auditor asking for updated data flow diagrams and written narratives? If so, you know that preparing for an audit can be a massive roadblock for your actual day-to-day work. Passing an audit of your cloud infrastructure is critical to your business's success, as failing could result in regulatory fines or lost customers.But the "old way" of proving compliance often means five to eight hours of administrative busywork. It usually involves hunting down outdated diagrams, manually combing through your AWS console to cross-reference security groups, and painstakingly typing out obvious explanations in Word documents.Fortunately, you can replace that painful, manual process using the Cloud Accelerator. By leveraging live metadata and AI, you can shrink an exhaustive eight-hour task down to just 45 minutes.Here is how you can use the Cloud Accelerator to efficiently prepare for your next audit:1. Import Your Liv

New to Lucidchart? Intimidated by Lucidchart? Want to make sure that you’re maximizing the potential of this application right from the jump?Come hang out with me for an introductory training where I’ll walk you through the Lucidchart editor and key features so you can start visualizing processes, systems, and information easily.Hands-on workshop: Getting started in LucidchartMarch 12, 2026 at 1 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. MTYou’ll learn how to: Start new documents and access unique shape libraries. Build your first flowchart with custom styling. Share your work, collaborate on diagrams in real time, and export your documents.Register here:

Finding "final_v3_FINAL.pdf" in a Slack thread is a sign your documentation is broken. Static files lead to two major roadblocks: inaccessibility and versioning issues.According to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, organizations using Lucid saved 344,000 hours in user efficiencies. ⏱️We wrote an entire article on how to build a living documentation hub that works for your team. Here are a few tips:1.

Introducing Portfolio management to give large, complex product teams real-time visibility across their entire portfolio!As product organizations grow, work inevitably spreads across multiple teams, product lines, and business units. That's great for execution,  but it makes it difficult for leaders to see the full picture. It’s why we built airfocus Portfolio management! 🎉It’s designed to close that gap, bringing product work from across the organization into live, flexible views and dashboards that update in real time.Available to all customers with an

Ready to see what the future of Lucid looks like? 🚀We’ve been cooking🔥a lot of new functionality here at Lucid and over the next few months I’m excited to host a brand-new, three-part webinar series (alongside many of my brilliant colleagues) to show off our latest features!If you’re looking to work smarter, move faster, and maybe even have a little fun while doing it, you won't want to miss these.Moving from blank canvas to creation faster with AIMarch 26, 2026 at 1 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. MTEMEA: March 31, 2026 at 3 p.m. CESTLearn how Lucid’s new intelligent features will help you create diagrams and documentation faster—so you can accelerate visual clarity and alignment.

Hey community 👋Put a finger down if you’ve ever…Had to chase a coworker because a roadmap item was missing its “Risk score” value. Spent hours manually recreating a Jira dependency. Announced a release date in a board meeting, only to realize your roadmap milestone hadn't been updated in weeks.Fragmented data and invisible blockers don't just slow you down, they actively undermine your strategy.That’s why we’ve been heads-down building a set of capabilities specifically for product teams operating in large-scale orgs. Introducing…→ Required fields:

As a K-8 teacher, I often think of teaching like piloting a plane. You wouldn't wait until the flight is over to ask, “Is this London?” and then tell everyone to get off regardless of the answer! That’s what teaching without formative assessment feels like.Formative assessment isn't a quiz. It’s the continuous process of understanding what students know and don't know in the moment so we can adjust our teaching before we finish the lesson. In my classroom, Lucid has been a game-changer for making these assessments truly accessible and engaging.I’ve seen firsthand how digital boards transform the way students demonstrate their knowledge. For instance, when my students explored Social Studies concepts like sports in Guatemala, they used a collaborative board to draw connections between ideas. This provided me with immediate visual

Did you know the term "minutes" doesn't actually refer to time? It comes from the Latin minuta scriptura, meaning "small writing." But don't let the name fool you—meeting minutes have a massive impact on team success. ✅Too often, we treat minutes as a boring formality. In reality, they are your team's secret weapon for alignment and transparency.Meeting minutes:Build trust: it gives those who couldn't attend a "seat at the table" and keeps everyone in the loop. 🤝 Drive accountability: no more "wait, was I supposed to do that?" A clear m

We’re excited to announce two new updates to assisted layout, making it easier than ever to create an easy-to-read workspace! 🎉 What is assisted layout?Assisted layout helps you to create a clean, presentable workspace by organizing and rearranging your content automatically.  What’s new?👇🏽 Spanning containers ✨Containers with assisted layout applied now automatically span rows and columns when you pull them into another container with assisted layout enabled. To activate

We’ve seen the rush toward agentic AI, but the truth is, AI agents are only as good as the context we give them. If your process documentation is incomplete (or nonexistent), agents will not be able to carry out tasks and may even reinforce inefficiencies.Join me and Melissa Reeve (creator of the Hyperadaptive Model) for an upcoming webinar to learn how to prepare for the age of AI agents and overcome common AI implementation challenges.We’ll be discussing:How to become AI-native Why AI implementations fail How to use Lucid to jump-start your agentic AI journeyHere are the details:Evaluating your readiness for agentic AIFebruary 26, 2026 at 1 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. MT👉 

Hey community 👋In our latest webinar, we sat down with Teresa Torres, leading voice in product discovery and author of Product Discovery Habits, to hear the story behind her first AI product, Product Talk’s AI Interview Coach. Her key lesson? Building with AI isn't just a new feature; it’s a fundamental shift in how we architect, synthesize, and define quality. 

Hey everyone! 👋🏼I've been thinking about how one of the top mistakes we see product teams make is this: Sending the exact same roadmap export to the CEO, the engineering lead, and the customer.You have one source of truth, but that doesn't mean everyone needs the same view. A generic roadmap often leaves executives wanting more strategy and engineers wanting more detail.Here is your quick cheat sheet for better alignment using airfocus:For Executives: Use a Portfolio Roll-up or Objective-led (Now-Next-Later) view. They don't care about the granular features; they care about the "Why" and the outcome. For Developers: Use Timeline & Release views. They need to see dependencies, specific milestones, and the "When." For Customers: Use a curated Shared URL. Give them the "hype" strip without

Hi all,We've been discussing different roadmap views lately and I wanted to jump in and share some of my thoughts about how the audience matters when creating roadmaps. Sending a granular timeline to a stakeholder who only cares about quarterly outcomes is probably going to lead to more questions than answers.But as a PM, I know we're being asked to do more and more and the the thought of manually keeping multiple roadmap views up-to-date is simply not an option.The great news is that you don't have to do this manually. airfocus makes it super easy to create different views of the same data for different stakeholders or audiences. And, these views all stay up to date as you and your teams work.Here's some of the ways I use airfocus different view types:For the "Big Picture" Stakeholders: I use the airfocus board view to show a kanban-style view of high-level initiatives by quarter. Then, I choose to just show a few key fields