Design: the creative space for teams
The website builder handles your public site. Design handles images, decks, and boards in the same workspace. Inside, you will find two distinct but deeply connected features: Design, your layout powerhouse built for pixel-perfect pages, and Board, your infinite multiplayer canvas built for brainstorming, planning, and structural mapping.
Whether you need a Canva-style design engine to quickly spin up custom customer portals or a Miro-style infinite whiteboard to map out workflow logic with sticky notes and vectors, Design keeps your team operating inside the same shared workspace.
Design: The Canva-Style Content and Layout Composer
Design handles every page that needs dedicated design care: customer portals, partner dashboards, embedded views, internal landing pages, and the dozens of long-tail surfaces that, in most stacks, end up looking like a contractor wrote them on a Friday. It functions as a powerful, brand-aware page composer for the rest of your business workspace.
Same components, different audience
Design shares its core component library with the website builder so designers do not have to waste time learning two entirely separate systems. The main difference is scope. Design pages can pull live data from any module via Super Widgets, accept user input via embedded forms, and live behind strict authentication or a public link, depending entirely on what they are built for.
the interface features a specialized Templates drawer packed with layout starting points categorized by use case, such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, and Flyer. These layout templates are built to instantly match your global styling.
When you dive into individual layout elements, the design workspace reveals its deep customizability. you can see the active composition window where an interactive vector graphic of a delivery scooter is being adjusted on an internal brand asset layout. The system sidebar gives you direct access to distinct resource tabs including Vectors, Photos, Branding, Recents, and Uploads, ensuring every asset is right at your fingertips.
What you can compose
- Customer portals built with scoped data and self-serve actions.
- Partner pages featuring co-branded layouts and gated content.
- Internal hubs that cleanly aggregate your team dashboards, quick links, and company-wide announcements.
- Onboarding micro-sites engineered for new hires or scaling clients.
- Public roadmap and changelog pages that are directly backed by your real development workflow.
Edit in place, ship in minutes
Every single section is editable inline, meaning spacing, type, and color tweaks happen smoothly without touched code. You also get a built-in version history on every single page so you can roll back unwanted edits instantly. Granular permissions can be set per page, per section, or even per data binding, ensuring the right people are editing the right things.
Brand-aware by default
Every canvas inherits directly from your central brand kit. A single change to the palette in your Branding settings propagates to every Design asset automatically. A swift update to your typography updates everything sitewide. It is the exact opposite of the usual SaaS reality where every digital surface drifts a little further from the brand guidelines every single quarter.
Board: The Miro-Style Collaborative Infinite Canvas
Kanban is a fantastic UI for daily triage, but it can be a terrible UI for high-level reporting, which is why most static board tools end up duplicated by a messy spreadsheet. Board fixes this by treating the canvas as an infinite, multiplayer whiteboard environment where cards and sticky notes reflect actual, structured datasets. You can drag to update, group by anything, swimlane by anything, and switch views seamlessly without typing the same data twice.
Collaborative brainstorming and infinite mapping
Board gives your team an endless spatial playground to map out ideas together. the workspace delivers a classic infinite whiteboard layout complete with floating toolbars, real-time cursor tracking, an integrated multiplayer comment system, and an on-canvas Timer widget featuring a voting enabler for quick team alignment sessions.
The Templates drawer on the board offers immediate starting points tailored for strategic alignment, such as Sticky Notes, Ux & Design, Brainstorming, Analysis & Strategy, Agile & Planning, Retrospective, and Social Media.
The canvas is built to handle complex process mapping and system architecture. you can witness this structural clarity in action as a classic flowchart is built out using linked Start, Process, Decision, and End nodes. The collapsible sidebar gives creators a deep reservoir of Shapes and Vectors to visually diagram any workflow.
What you can put on a board
- Dynamic business records: Tasks, deals, tickets, candidates, content pieces, deliveries, or anything carrying an operational status.
- Custom axes: Group your assets smoothly by stage, by owner, by priority, or by custom metadata fields.
- Swimlanes: Introduce swimlanes by team or category to gain clear second-axis context.
- Optimized layouts: Utilize card layouts that actively surface the exact fields a quick glance actually needs.
Drag to update, with smart automation rules
Moving a card across different structural stages can trigger immediate backend workflows. You can configure the canvas to notify a teammate, schedule a follow-up task, post to a Slack channel, or automatically generate an invoice. Built-in validation rules prevent manual moves that would skip required fields, ensuring your whiteboard never lies to your data reports.
Boards as dashboards
Gain immediate analytical insights with WIP (Work In Progress) limits per column, cycle-time analytics, and aging indicators that automatically flag cards that have been stuck in place for too long. You can save custom views per person and per team. Board-level filters respect user permissions, allowing a director to monitor the cross-team picture while a contributor sees only their personal queue from the exact same board definition.
Templates for the patterns we see most
Get moving instantly with pre-built maps for Sales pipelines, product roadmaps, sprint boards, content calendars, hiring pipelines, support triage, and customer-success cadences. Each layout template is designed to be a flexible starting point, not a cage; you can rename stages, inject custom fields, and point the canvas at entirely different datasets whenever your project scales.
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