Brainstorming: it’s exciting, messy, and sometimes frustrating. You’ve got a million ideas, but catching them before they fly away can be tricky.
Enter Lucidspark, the award-winning whiteboard that makes it easy to capture, organize, and share your ideas with anyone, anywhere.
Here are a few Lucidspark features our Lucid Champions can’t brainstorm without:
Sticky Notes
Sticky notes aren’t just colorful squares; they’re the bridge between brainstorming and real-world impact, transforming fleeting thoughts into concrete steps.
“I like using sticky notes to help me keep track of what I need to do after meetings. I make a list of actions that I need to perform as a result of the meeting/things I need to follow up on."
Erin W., Patient Experience Coordinator in Healthcare
“Sticky notes are great because they take almost zero training to explain to a Lucid newbie. I conduct facilitation sessions all the time, and some people have never logged into Lucid, and they can hit the ground running with a brainstorm.”
“Sticky notes are my life! So good to get ideas down quickly and not stop the creative process.”
“Who doesn’t love sticky notes for a collaborative brainstorm? With sticky notes in Lucidspark, participants can seamlessly add their thoughts, interact with others on the board, organize thoughts, and so much more in real-time.”
“Sticky notes are informal way for my team to brainstorm and to easily to convert the brainstorm ideas in Jira cards.”
Collaborator & Custom Colors
Lucidspark facilitates seamless and effective collaboration through tools like custom colors and collaborator colors.
“I love using the custom colors to differentiate between different notes. I love pastels, so this is a great feature for me to use.”
“I love having the ability to choose the collaborator colors! It makes everything more fun when discussing and working with my team members online.”
“Custom colors are great for setting up colors for each person to be identified as.”
Emoji Reactions
Lucidspark supports over 3000 emoji reactions that you can add to sticky notes, shapes, and text boxes.
“Emojis are fun and bring some personality to the conversation.”
“Being able to emoji react adds a visual indicator of engagement with a sticky note or object.”
“Emoji reactions are great for getting feedback during the conversation on various ideas.”
Containers & Frames
Spark focused collaboration by using containers and frames to organize and draw attention to critical points.
“Containers are nice because they help us make the sections clear and stay on task.”
“Frames are super helpful because I can use the table of contents to jump between frames, presentation-style, when people are following my screen and I’m trying to present information. Plus, when I drag the frame around, all the content is magnetized inside it so it negates the need for containers.”
“I love frames as they allow me to get one idea or thought organised and easily move it about the board without having to ‘select all’ every time.”
“Whiteboards can feel like a lot because they are this infinite canvas, but frames help you organize and chunk the information that participants can then navigate using an automated table of contents or scroll through like they would slides.”
Breakout Boards
With Breakout Boards, you can break a large group of people into small groups to take your brainstorming and collaborating sessions to the next level.
“I use breakout boards for collaborating with my team members about strategy. Every other quarter, my co-workers and I meet to determine what the future state of our department should look like, so it’s nice to break out what we’re doing well and where our areas of improvement are.”
Voting Sessions
Voting sessions allow you to organize and synthesize your ideas so you can move the best ones forward.
“Voting sessions are a low impact way of getting a general consensus, even when participants might otherwise be reluctant to do so.”
“Voting sessions have been super useful for us because we often have to send separate email surveys to vote on things, but this makes it so much easier to vote in real-time without having to create a new survey link and emailing it to multiple people.”
“Voting sessions help us make a decision in a fair and transparent way.”
Timer
Use the timer to keep your collaboration sessions engaging and focused.
“I utilize the timer to keep the conversations and flow going to prevent us from getting stuck/off topic.”
“I don’t love the timer, but it’s necessary and keeps us on task.”
Laser Pointer
The laser pointer is a great tool for drawing attention to specific content when you are presenting or working with other collaborators. When you have this feature selected, you can freehand draw using the red laser.
“The laser pointer helps to get people’s attention and highlight what I am talking about.”
“The laser pointer is useful to highlight stuff that I am talking about.”
Presentation Builder
The presentation builder allows you to transform your board into a slide deck presentation with just a few clicks.
“The presentation builder turns giant documents into a smoother presentation.”
Ready to brainstorm like a boss? From sticky notes and emojis to voting sessions and everything in between, Lucidspark makes brainstorming fun, easy, and super effective.