Idea Board is Brainstorm with structure: audiences submit ideas into named columns (categories) and then vote on the ones that matter most. Think of it as a live Miro board without the Miro learning curve: columns you define up front, ideas from everyone in the room, a group vote at the end, all in one slide.

How Idea Board works

Idea Board runs the same two-phase flow as Brainstorm, but with categorised columns for clarity:

1. Define your columns: "What is working / What is not / What to try", or your own headings.
2. Set a submission window; audiences type ideas from their phone directly into the right column.
3. When submissions close, everyone votes on the ideas that resonate most in each column.
4. Top-voted ideas per column rise to the top: a ready-to-action shortlist by the end of the slide.

Best for

Idea Board is the workhorse for any facilitator who needs categorised input, not a jumble of ideas:

• Agile teams: retrospectives with the classic "start / stop / continue" or "mad / sad / glad" columns.
• Product managers: feature-idea sessions grouped by customer segment, effort level, or theme.
• Facilitators & consultants: SWOT analysis, force-field mapping, and workshop synthesis phases.
• HR & team leads: quarterly planning with columns for goals, blockers, and resource needs.

Why teams love Idea Board

Idea Board wins over a plain brainstorm whenever the ideation has natural buckets:

• Structured input: categories emerge with the ideas, not as a messy post-workshop sorting exercise.
• Two phases in one slide: collect and prioritise without switching tools or slides.
• Every voice counts: remote and in-person attendees submit and vote from the same phone flow.
• No whiteboard cleanup: the output is already sorted, ranked, and captured when the slide ends.

Free to run and the fastest way to end a workshop with a ranked, categorised action list.