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What is Mixboard?

Mixboard is an experimental AI idea from Google LabsDrawing Board Tools, is designed to help users quickly visualize ideas. Users can generate images through text prompts, upload reference materials, and edit and recreate the images using natural language to explore different styles, elements and atmospheres on a single canvas. It is suitable for early creative stages such as interior design, event setup, brand visualization, product concepts, etc., allowing designers, planners and even non-professional users to brainstorm and collide inspiration efficiently.

Mixboard's strengths lie in its simplicity of operation, speed of generation, and variety of styles, which not only reduces the tediousness of manually stitching together materials, but also provides more paths of exploration through the "variant" function. Although it is still an experimental tool with limited regional availability, its value in creative conceptualization and visual exploration has shown great potential.

Mixboard's main features

• Text to Image
  The user simply enters a description and the AI automatically generates a corresponding image, quickly visualizing an abstract idea.
• natural language editor (computing)
  Modifying existing images with simple commands such as "brighter" or "add plants" is intuitive and flexible.
• Image upload and re-generation
  Support for uploading reference images, AI can generate variants or extended scenes based on the material, balancing personal material and AI creation.
• Exploring Diverse Styles
  Provide "variations", "similar style" and other functions, so that users can quickly get multiple options to compare and choose.
• Canvas Creative Space
  A mix of text, images, and generated content is laid out on a large canvas for organizing, combining, and presenting ideas.

Scenarios for Mixboard

• Home / Interior Design / Decorating Style Exploration
  For example, if you want to design a living room, bedroom, kitchen, or a specific style (Scandinavian, Japanese, minimalist, bohemian, etc.), you can start by using text prompts to have Mixboard generate multiple style samples to use as an inspiration board.
• Event / Party / Theme Setup
  For example, to hold a wedding, birthday party, exhibition and trade show theme style, etc., through Mixboard first visualize the set, color scheme, decorative elements, ambient lighting and so on.
• Product / Packaging / Material Concept Exploration
  For example, if you are working on the initial concept of a certain product (e.g., water bottles, bags, furniture, accessories, etc.), you can first make samples of different styles to test the feasibility of the direction at a high level.
• Branding / Visual Style Board / Inspiration Collection
  Teams or individuals can use Mixboard to mix and match multiple reference drawings, style boards, and materials on a single board for easy follow-up design or communication.
• Creative Brainstorming / Inspiration Visualization
  For designers, creators, planners, etc., who need a lot of visual stimulation and idea collision in the early stages of a project, Mixboard can quickly generate multiple visual ideas for reference, adjustment, and iteration.
• Personalized Visuals / Fun Creations
  Some users may just use it for visual collages, style experiments, image combination experiments, etc. It's also a way to "play" with the tool.

How do I use Mixboard?

• login to access: Sign in to Mixboard using your Google account to access the experimental canvas.
• New construction projects: Select a blank canvas or template and enter a text prompt to generate the initial image.
• Add Material: Upload a reference image or import an existing image to use as a creative base or supporting element.
• natural language editor (computing): Adjust image content, style, or element layout with text commands.
• Generating variants: Generate multiple alternatives for a single element or an entire canvas to quickly compare results.
• Organize and Export: Adjust board layouts, combine elements, and export or share the results of visual ideas.

Recommended Reasons

• Rapid Visualization and Trial and Error
  Quickly transform text ideas into visual boards, eliminating the tedious task of manually dragging materials and putting together layouts, and increasing brainstorming efficiency.
• Flexible natural language driven editing
  Composition, style, and details can be adjusted with simple text commands, without having to go into a complex graphical interface each time.
• Strong style exploration skills
  The "Variants / More Like This" feature allows you to quickly pick and choose between multiple visual schemes or mix and match styles.
• Balancing autonomous material with AI output
  Supports uploading clips + AI editing, so you can keep your existing clips and let AI assist in expanding them.
• Suitable for the creative exploration stage
  In the early stages of a project, when the design direction is not yet fully finalized, the Mixboard can be used as a "Visual Thinking Board / Inspirational Meeting Place".
• Light threshold / Easy to get started
  Friendly to non-designers / non-professional artists: just type in the prompts + click to try, no need to master complicated design software.