Digital whiteboards are in demand as distributed teams look for more ways to collaborate visually. Credit: ClickUp Productivity platform ClickUp has added a Whiteboards feature today, enabling more visual collaboration for distributed teams to present and brainstorm ideas. ClickUp Whiteboards will form part of the wider ClickUp portfolio of collaboration tools, which includes Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Dashboards. The whiteboards are native to the ClickUp platform, meaning users will be able to incorporate any work undertaken on a whiteboard into their existing workflows immediately. Alongside providing a space for teams to come together and map out their ideas, the digital, interactive canvas offers real-time collaboration capabilities to distributed teams. Workers will have complete visibility into all team members’ edits and cursor movements and will be able to add content to the whiteboard in a variety of ways, including drawings, text with rich formatting, shapes, sticky notes, images, and other media files. Quick-Apply templates will enable teams from any department to speed up the whiteboarding process, while any objects created on a whiteboard can be turned into a ClickUp task and shared with both internal and external teams. Research carried out by ClickUp prior to the Whiteboards launch found that 67% of employees consider themselves ‘visual workers’. Furthermore, since the start of the pandemic, 60% of respondents admitted to finding it more challenging to brainstorm and collaborate with their colleagues, with 64% having done less brainstorming with their teams as a result. Zeb Evans, CEO at ClickUp, said that collaboration requires more than just a physical place where colleagues can meet to brainstorm ideas. He believes that teams need to be able turn thoughts into actions without the use of too many tools. “ClickUp Whiteboards solves this challenge, as it is built natively into the broader ClickUp platform … providing a single place for teams to work more efficiently and get more done,” he said. Related content news analysis Apple confirms it will open up the iPad in Europe this fall The latest efforts to comply with Europe’s Digital Markets Act mean developers can offer to side load apps to both iPhones and iPads in the EU. Apple has also taken steps to improve what it offers to smaller and non-commercial developers in the By Jonny Evans May 02, 2024 6 mins iPad Apple Mobile Apps news Udacity offers laid-off US workers free access to its courses for 30 days Sign-ups will be available over the next 30 days By Lucas Mearian May 02, 2024 4 mins Technology Industry IT Jobs IT Skills opinion Why you’ll soon have a digital clone of your own AI isn’t going to replace you at work. You will. By Mike Elgan May 02, 2024 7 mins Augmented Reality Generative AI Virtual Reality news analysis Workers with these AI skills are getting cash premiums As AI deployments become more critical to digital transformation projects, organizations are struggling to find skilled workers to support the new technology, so they're paying premiums for prospective hires or current employees who obtain the n By Lucas Mearian May 01, 2024 7 mins Generative AI IT Jobs IT Skills Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe