Palette
Your launchpad for everything on the canvas: every element and palette setting explained.
Elements
Shapes
Squares, circles, cylinders and more, with morphing and markers.
Arrows
Connectors of every style, with draggable curve and elbow handles.
Where each tool lives
A map of the palette categories and which elements are in each.
Write Elements
Page, Text, Sticky note, Annotation and Pointer note: the elements made of words.
Event Storming Elements
The workshop note grammar: eight sticky kinds, each colour a meaning.
Build Elements
Mind maps, org charts, flowcharts, sequence diagrams, lanes, frames, stacks, boundaries, keys and tables: diagram structure.
Components
Cards, badges, step numbers and web components: banners, callouts and more.
Mind Maps
Tab adds a child, Enter a sibling: build a branch from the keyboard.
Flowcharts
Tab adds the next step, Enter a parallel one: a flowchart that lays itself out.
Collaborate elements
The Collaborate categories (Ask and Record) that collect what the room thinks: comment panels, action panels, estimates, quizzes, temperature checks, idea boxes, Q&A boards, agendas, decisions and roll calls.
Chairs
Chairs, desks and sofas for Avatar mode: walk a character in and it sits down.
Fences
A barrier for Avatar mode: characters cannot walk through a fence.
Virtual Office
Rooms with doorways, a meeting table, plants, shelves, a water cooler, a coffee machine and rugs for Avatar mode.
Cards and Callouts
One node with a title, a meta line, a body, an icon and tags, plus accent edges.
Badges and Step Numbers
Small marks that attach to a node's corner and travel with it.
Boundaries
Titled, tinted containers for regions, networks and systems.
Pointer Notes
A note joined by a line to the one spot it is about.
Stacks
A container that lines up what you drop in, with even gaps.
Diagram Keys and Tag Colours
A legend that builds itself, and cards coloured by their tags.
Org Charts
A tree of people with names and roles that lays itself out.
Sequence Diagrams
Who calls whom, in order, laid out from a list of messages.
Concept Graphics
Stacks, pyramids, funnels, cycles, hubs, onions and chevrons that lay out their rows.
Lanes
Titled bands for swimlanes; dragging one carries its contents.
Entities
A title over name / type rows, for class diagrams and data models.
Embeds on the canvas
Play a video, or open a Figma file, Google Doc or any website, on the canvas.
Collaborate
Every element that comes alive with the room, as six palette categories in Facilitate mode: comment and action panels, estimates, quizzes, temperature checks, idea boxes, Q&A boards, Done checks, pickers, session buttons (timer, stopwatch, vote, poll), agendas, decisions, roll calls, reactions, mode buttons, portals and Bring Focus.
Devices
Browser, phone, laptop and other wireframing frames.
Icons
A searchable catalogue of single-colour glyphs.
Stickers
Die-cut colour emoji and word badges for reactions and status.
Technology
Full-colour AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Firebase and infrastructure icons.
Palette Settings
Auto-Attach Arrows
Move an arrow end to the facing side when a move sends it through a shape.
Alignment Guides
Show the guide lines that explain a snap while moving or resizing.
Panel Opacity
Make the panels translucent so the canvas shows through.
Quick-add on Hover
Open an element’s + menu by hovering it instead of clicking.
Toolbar Layout
The palette strip across the top of the canvas, its More and its Search.