Inspiration

Name:  MelindaCompany: LucidThis is the largest board I’ve made.  I incorporated stickies to complete the road over on the left.  This one also uses more shapes and images than any other board I’ve made. The business part of this board is toward the middle top of the main green area.My Retros are themed and tend to act as an Ice Breaker all on their own.The “business” part covers these areas:Shout OutsA fun section that changes each sprintWhat can be improvedWhat went wellDiscussion topicsWho’s out next sprintAction Items View Only Link:Dr. Seuss Retro Board

@Humas1985  is one of our top Lucid Legends. He is a diagramming pro and one of the frequent faces you’ll see around the community, so we want to share one of his use cases with you! Check out how he visualizes his lead management system in Lucidchart.

First name: KiraCompany: Lucid SoftwareView-only link to board: Roadtrip RetroWhy I love it: This board is visual and engaging. It starts with an icebreaker, then each participant gets to choose a car and go on a roadtrip for the duration of the retrospective. 

🚨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

Hi, everyone!Join us on July 25 at 11 a.m. MDT for an in-depth look at the newest innovations in diagramming software, and see how using smarter tools can help you work smarter and faster. We’ll show off Lucid features such as quick diagramming, data linking, AI-generated diagrams, and more!Register here: https://lucid.co/resources/webinars/next-generation-of-diagramming-july-2024?utm_medium=lucid-outreach&utm_source=community&utm_campaign=webinar&utm_content=jul-2024-gtm-webinar3

Hi, everyone!Join us on July 18 for an insightful webinar on improving cross-functional team coordination. Our experts will share strategies to optimize teamwork in remote and hybrid environments, highlighting some of our newest capabilities in Lucid.👉🏻 Register hereHow to improve cross-functional team coordinationJuly 18, 2024 at 11 a.m. MDT (1 p.m. EDT)We’ll discuss:Effective strategies for remote and hybrid team coordin

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 

Summer is here! And there’s no reason why your summer fun can’t be organized. Check out our 6 templates that will let you make the most out of your summer.Travel itinerary templateVacations are fun, but there’s also a lot of work. Let your summer travel be stress-free by using our travel itinerary template. With it, you can  plan details, daily schedules, and transportation with ease.SMART goals templateResolutions don’t have to be reserved for New Years. Whether it’s painting, learning a language, or spending more time outside, summer can be full of resolutions. Visualize and organize your summer goals with our SMART goals template to make the most of your summer.

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

https://play.goconsensus.com/s1b586639?autoplay Check out this video to learn how to build a smart conditional formatting rule to apply to Lucid Jira cards (or other card types) that will calculate the total number of cards/issues and points along a path. In the second half of the video, it will show how to do a similar rule - but with a % to completion of the path, based on status of cards. The video goes over how to calculate both total cards/issues in path marked as complete, and total points along path marked as complete. https://play.goconsensus.com/s1b586639?autoplay 

Do you want to visually portray steps and documents in a process? Does your process involve multiple actors or categories? If so build a flowchart! Follow this walkthrough of the Business process flow example to understand how to work with flowcharts in Lucidchart. You can also customize this template to suit your own teams and processes!This template includes both advanced and basic flowchart shapes. Swim lanes are the advanced shapes that contain the entire process and organize steps into four categories: responsibilities of the customer sales team management and credit department. Within

Hi, Lucid Community!I’m excited to share some tips to improve the way your team coordinates work! Team coordination involves arranging people, work, and timelines to ensure projects run smoothly. But coordination has become more difficult with an increase in hybrid and remote teams. Luckily, Lucid can help.Try out these strategies:Build a home base for your team. In Lucid, users can organize themselves into teams and create a team hub, a shared space with centralized resources so every team member can initiat

Check out this following video for some tips on how to total up the Story Points (“Estimate” on generic Lucid cards) in a frame or container.https://play.goconsensus.com/b9ff55c61   Note: you can customize what it shown to work with Jira or AzureDevOps, by adjusting the formula.

Hello IT Group! 😊 Following Emma’s post, here are some more questions that were asked during our recent webinar, this time on Features and Functionality. Hopefully the answers can be useful for everyone here as well! Q: Is it possible to select flowchart templates for the AI to generate flowcharts with? A: You can currently leverage our AI to generate diagrams based on custom prompts, which can also include specific shape libraries.. Learn more about how our Collaborative AI works in this Help Center article.

You probably know that Lucidspark is the go-to platform for inspiring creative brainstorming sessions with your team, but did you know that there are so many other ways to leverage this infinite canvas?Let’s take a peek at some of the other ways you can use Lucidspark to work more intuitively:Whiteboard: Lucidspark is not your average virtual whiteboard. Features like the timer,

 👋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

👋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

👋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

Whether you want to collaborate, brainstorm, or launch ideas into action, there are dozens of Lucidspark features to help you seamlessly meet your goals! 🏆Inspired by the Lucid Champions program (an exclusive, customer-centric engagement program for Lucid’s biggest fans), here are some of our best tricks to help you fully utilize all of Lucidspark’s innovative features.Sticky notesSticky notes are by far one of our most-used and most-loved features. In fact, an anonymous Lucid Champion even called them the workhorse of whiteboarding! But did you know you can utilize the Quick Cleanup tool to clean up your sticky notes in seconds? Add ideas without restriction, and then Quick Cleanup will help you view them in an orderly way. ContainersContainers are perfect for boosting the clarity of your whiteboard. Organize

Hi Community!Hope you all are doing greatJust to add to this amazing section in our Lucid Community, I'd like to share some thoughts on some ideas and possible uses for Lucidspark:As a Product Owner of a specific startup, I pretty much use Lucidspark for all ideation process and refinement. All work done in this specific board - in bigger or smaller part - becomes the creation of our backlog in Jira.Starting this I'd like to share our base Flowchart and Value Stream: This was, kinda, the first activity that I did with the team. Understanding our overall flow of activities. This way we were able to align some terminology and find ourselves where we were talking in our Value Stream.Another important activity - now with the UX Team, was to create our UI journey of specific screens that we

Hey Lucid Community! My name’s Cal and I’m a customer trainer at Lucid. In a few days, I’ll be hosting webinar to help you and your teams build stellar business process diagrams.  I’ll show you how to build your diagrams for clarity so that you can gain even more insights into your workflows and processes. Then, we’ll workshop together so that you leave feeling confident to create your own diagrams. Here are the details:Building effective business process diagrams📅 Date: May 16, 2024🕒Time: 11 a.m. MDT (1 p.m. EDT)

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.

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. The

How to build a cool dynamic tracker for your cards! This works for Jira, “standard” Lucid cards, etc. thanks to the smart semantic field mapping of formulas in Lucid. Lucid formulas can detect the status etc. of cards, and formulas can add it all up! See video:https://play.goconsensus.com/a9825dfd9    

Attention all innovators! 📢At Lucid, we’re defining what it means to build the future. Since that mission is all about innovation, we know there’s more to it than just big ideas—it’s also about the tools and processes you use to bring ideas to life. For example, our research and development (R&D) teams use Lucid to visualize data and architecture design. They might use a template like these or create their own visual system. Visualizin