Community news and announcements

Hey Lucid Community!  As a new product manager here at Lucid, I’ve quickly learned that the 'perfect' leadership board is never actually finished. Every time I need to add just one more section for team alignment, I end up in a manual 'spatial Tetris' battle, moving every single element just to create a little breathing room. Does anyone else find themselves spending more time rearranging than actually building? Enter: Nudging 🎉 We built Nudging to act like a "snowplow" for your canvas. Instead of manually rearranging your content to make new space to work with, your containers now do the heavy lifting for you. Here’s how it works: You can toggle Nudging on by dragging a container or frame

Hey Lucid Community!We have seen some truly impressive customer diagrams here at Lucid.  There’s the highly technical business architectures and processes, but also (my favorite) using lucid to map out narrative themes and plot points in theater productions or quest trees for homebrewed RPGs.Common to all of these:  "Visual Overload" –  when you share a massive, complex board with a collaborator who just needs the high-level summary. We’ve all been there: either you spend hours creating a "simplified" duplicate version, or you hop on a call and spend 10 minutes saying, "Ignore this part for now..."Enter: Collapse and Expand 🎉  

Thank you for joining the March Lately @ Lucid webinar! In our first of the three-part Lately @ Lucid webinar series, we highlighted AI features across the Lucid platform to help you move from blank canvas to creation faster.If you missed it, catch the webinar here!In this post, we’re diving into the highlights of what’s new ⏬ Lucid AI Entry Point

We are excited to announce that new versions of the VPAT for Lucidchart and Lucidspark are now available at lucid.co/accessibility. Both the Lucidchart VPAT and Lucidspark VPAT are publicly viewable on our website. Lucid is committed to creating products that are accessible and user-friendly for everyone. Some of the changes to the latest VPATs include:Improved Bypass Block Hotkeys to jump between the canvas and the UI Improved keyboard navigation patterns  For a complete list of FAQ’s, please visit this

Assisted layout helps to arrange content within Lucid organizers- including swimlanes, frames and all container types. This feature automatically aligns shapes to create a clean, presentable workspace. Assisted layout is also available with AI-generated content, making brainstorming and board organization easy and efficient. What’s new this Lately @ Lucid? Let’s take a look at some of the newest assisted lay

Swimlanes are a key part of many common diagrams, especially process and flow diagrams- helping to organize steps by team, role, or system.Manually creating these swimlanes can be time-consuming and tedious. You’ve asked for AI to handle this structure automatically, and we’ve listened. We’re happy to announce you can now generate diagrams with swimlanes in Lucid AI! ✨ What’s available today?Lucid AI can now automatically generate swimlanes when creating diagrams. If your prompt includes lanes–or mentions teams, roles, or systems that imply lanes– Lucid AI will add them for you.For now, swimlanes are generated in black and white.What’s coming n

Announced during the October 1st Lately @ Lucid webinar, Lucid AI builds on our intelligent work acceleration platform to empower teams to create, collaborate, and maximize efficiency. To access Lucid AI, open a Lucidchart document and navigate to the very top of the left-hand panel to open the chat.  From within the Lucid AI chat, type in your prompt and start creating! Here are a few things that Lucid AI can help you with: Create a diagram: Supported diagram types include flowcharts, ERDs, mind maps, and more. Brainstorm

🌟 Hello Community! 🌟If you have been using Lucid a lot lately and finding smart ways to make it work for your team, this one’s for you. We have put together a Lucid Power User Kit for all our power users, Admins, Legends, and anyone who wants to take the lead and help their peers get more out of Lucid! Many of you are already the go-to person when it comes to boards

We are excited to announce a powerful new update to the Process Accelerator, restricted repositories! 🎉Some processes, such as sensitive HR workflows, internal financial audits, or specialized project handbooks, require a bit more privacy. With restricted repositories, you can now maintain a single source of truth for your team’s most sensitive documentation without sharing it with your entire organization.  What is a restricted repository? A

You may have noticed some new looks to Lucid’s in-editor UI! Let’s take a look at what’s new. ⤵️ File menu in Lucidchart The file menu in Lucidchart has been consolidated. To access the menu options, you can select the hamburger icon to the right of the board title and a vertical drop-down menu will appear. All of the menu options that were previously across the top of Lucidchart are now accessible via the dropdown. Lucidchart menuTo learn more about the menu bar, check out the

Manually creating ERDs and exporting diagram updates can be tedious and time-consuming. We’re excited to announce a few new enhancements to make this process more efficient! Let’s dive into what’s new! ⏩ Newly supported databases for ERD import and export Lucid has expanded ERD import and export to support Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Azure SQL Database, and Google BigQuery. Quickly import database schemas to visualize tabl

As of March 5th, 2025, the airfocus Chrome extension is no longer active.

Tired of recreating your diagrams or whiteboards? Comak now integrates with Lucidchart to convert your hand-drawn diagrams into modifiable files. Here's how it works:Take a photo of your hand-drawn diagram on any whiteboard or piece of paper. Upload to Comak to generate an editable diagram you can send to Lucidchart. Use Lucidchart to refine your diagram, collaborate, and share with your team.No more manual redrawing. No mo

You have heard a lot of exciting feature updates from Lucid recently (and if you missed any of the buzz, make sure to take a look at our Lately @ Lucid announcement!). But amid the hype of Lucid AI, assisted layout, and updates to our accelerators, we didn’t want to forget about the small but impactful updates our team has released to make your experience in the core Lucid Suite more delightful.Check out the most recent upda

Announced during the Lately @ Lucid webinar on April 3rd, the Cloud Accelerator is now live and available for purchase by Enterprise-level accounts! For more information, check out the Cloud Accelerator overview help center article. In this post, we’ll be going over some use case examples.Engineering teams know all to

There are many exciting updates here at Lucid since the Lately @ Lucid webinar! Announced on April 3rd, the Agility Accelerator and Cloud Accelerator are now available for Enterprise customers. These new accelerators come along with changes to our home page and how to navigate to

We’re making it easier than ever for teams to coordinate and get organized. 🎉 See what’s new with team hubs: Bulk upload teams via CSV: Scale the creation of new teams by enabling admins to bulk upload teams via a CSV file. Pinning: Pin your favorite team hubs, and make it easier to navigate

The Process Accelerator is live and available for purchase to Enterprise-level accounts! The Process Accelerator provides organizations with increased governance and standardization in how processes are documented, stored, and maintained. New to the Process Accelerator? This post serves as an overview workflow showing how you can create repositories, update documentation, and utilize the asset library.  Creating a repository A

Last April, we expanded Lucid’s vision as a work acceleration platform powered by visual collaboration. Now, we’re continuing to support users through large-scale initiatives, such as process improvement, agility workflows, and AI transformation. We’re delighted to announce new capabilities to keep accelerating your business forward!  Lucid AINewly announced, Lucid AI builds on intelligent capabilities to help teams maximize efficiency in their

A team hub is a central shared space for teams to access important documents, track project progress, and access important links. Recently released, team roles and permissions allow users to assign different levels of control and ownership!  There are two roles -

 June 2024 newsletterHello, community friends! My name is Kelsey Gaag, and I am the newest member of the Lucid Community team. I’m so excited to introduce our new and improved monthly newsletter. We’ll create and post this informative newsletter at the end of every month to recap important events, notable posts, top contributors and more! Community news 📰Trusted User GroupThe Lucid product team has just launched a Data Trusted User Group of enthusiastic and experienced Lucid users who test new features and provide feedback on how to improve Lucid products. These users get an inside look into what Lucid is working on and how our product team works. This group is perfect for users who have experience working with data linking, formulas, org charts, and other intelligent diagramming features.

As we shared last month, the Lucid team continuously makes small but impactful updates to improve your experience in the Lucid Suite—and we’re still going! Here’s a summary of the most recent updates designed to make interactions within Lucid more intuitive and efficient: Organizer drop zones: Move shapes around drop zones more precisely, thanks to a tidier view.   Editing empty Frame titles:

We’re excited to spotlight one of the members of our Lucid Legend program: ​@rsnyderpsu  🎉 . Robert is a Enterprise Architect in the Higher Education industry. We want to highlight a few specific things that make Robert “legendary!”Robert has earned 3  badges and earned over 300 points in the Lucid Legends program. Robert also loves collecting and enjoying Vintage Stereo Equipment!Check out Robert’s badges, post responses, and stats on their profile. You can follow them to receive updates on their posts!

We’re excited to spotlight one of the members of our Lucid Legend program: ​@Grieser 🎉 . Eric is an Agile Coach and Scrum Master in the Insurance and Finance industry. We want to highlight a few specific things that make Eric “legendary!”Eric has earned 3 badges, 2 best answers, and earned over 300 points in the Lucid Legends program. A fun fact about Eric is that he love to D-I-Y.  Eric is a big weekend warrior, and loves to do car maintenance, woodworking, landscaping, sewing.He also loves learning new things and enjoys being a problem solver in real life too! It also doesn't hurt that he can enjoy a good craft beer after a job well done!Check out Eric’s badges, post responses, and stats on his profile.