Whiteboard Introduces All-New “Workshop” Feature
On March 31, 2020, our team at Adobe (the International Design team) launched Whiteboard plugin for Adobe XD as a tool to enable remote ideation, brainstorming and sketching with your teams. Here’s the article about how to get the best use of it. This was our solution for the larger design community to do design thinking remotely during Covid-19. The plugin is free and so is XD until October. You can get the Whiteboard plugin here and get Adobe XD here.
Introducing Workshops!
Well, we’ve been busy since we launched! Listening to lots of feedback from the design community, we realized that just having a good variety of design thinking activities (we call “templates”) wasn’t enough structure to help people run meaningful extended ideation sessions. Based on the feedback and our own experiences doing workshops and design sprints, the idea to add a “Workshop” functionality was born!
The idea is to guide users on how to run workshops based on the purpose of their projects. We created workshops by grouping templates according to objective, under such titles as Design Innovation, Empathy Building, Prioritization, and Business Reset. Each Workshop comes with a specific set of templates in recommended order and estimated duration.
This allows the team to quickly and confidently set up their workshops, reducing the effort and time of finding the right templates and setting up the process. The all new Workshop feature in Whiteboard let’s design teams focus on the actual ideation and problem-solving process.
To do a Workshop:
- Get the Whiteboard plugin in XD or update the plugin if you’re using it.
- Open the plugin and click on the “Workshop” link at the bottom of the plugin panel.
- Review the four Workshop types to find one right for your project and click the “Get Started” button to stage the templates to your file.
- Don’t forget to invite your teammates and enable coediting to begin collaborating.
- Also, before doing a workshop, make sure to send out an invite that clearly states the purpose.
Resources for doing effective workshops:
Getting started with Whiteboard and XD:
- Download Adobe XD (for free until October 2020)
- Get the Whiteboard plugin
