The Brainstorm Tab
Use the Brainstorm mood board to collect references, sticky notes, sketches, and links, and shape the project brief before design starts.
Brainstorm is where a thumbnail project starts — before anyone opens a design tool. It pairs an infinite mood-board canvas with a docked panel for the project's brief and discussion, so the direction is agreed on before design work begins.
The mood board
The canvas is a pan-and-zoom board you fill with pins. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, and use the zoom controls in the bottom-left. Everything your team drops here is shared live.
Pick a tool from the floating rail on the left, then click the board to drop a pin.
- Sticky notes
Drop a colored note for a quick idea, hook line, or constraint. Click to type.
- Images
Upload a reference thumbnail or a raw photo straight onto the board.
- Link cards
Paste a URL — a competitor video, a Figma board, a reference anywhere on the web.
- Sketches & shapes
Rough out a composition freehand, or drop rectangles, ellipses, and arrows to point things out.
Select a pin to move, resize, or rotate it. Select several (drag a marquee, or hold Shift) to move or rotate them as a group. The eraser removes pins as you sweep over them, and Delete removes whatever is selected. Each tool also has a single-key shortcut, shown in its tooltip.
Brief & discussion
The panel on the right has two tabs.
Brief is the shared source of truth for the thumbnail: a summary of what it needs to do, a list of must-haves (constraints like "face must look left" or "no red text"), a due date, and the number of concept approvals required before the project can be published.
Discussion is a threaded conversation for the whole project. Post a thought, reply, react with a thumbs up or down, and @-mention teammates. It is the place for direction-level conversation that is not tied to a specific design.
Common mistakes
Skipping the brief
A one-line summary plus a couple of must-haves saves rounds of revision later. Designers work off the brief, and it shows up on the Designer Panel.
Confusing discussion with design feedback
Use Discussion for overall direction. For notes pinned to a specific version of a design, use pin and region comments on the The Iterate Tab tab instead.