Idea Board
Collect ideas from the whole room into visual columns, then let everyone vote on the best ones. A live idea board for workshops, retros, and product planning.
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Run Idea Board with your group
Host it live from your screen while everyone joins on their phone, or open it in AhaSlides and swap in your own questions.
About this game
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:
- Define your columns: "What is working / What is not / What to try", or your own headings.
- Set a submission window; audiences type ideas from their phone directly into the right column.
- When submissions close, everyone votes on the ideas that resonate most in each column.
- 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.