Video Credit Bryant Hudson

Video Credit Bryant Hudson

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I led a team to create Canvas Direct, a fast, accessible, and effective way to find and use tools in Lucid. Canvas Direct won first place in Lucid’s annual hackathon competition.

Chapter 1

Find and learn

People love using Lucid products.

But, many don’t use all the tools and shapes Lucid has.

How could we help people find and learn about Lucid’s tools and shapes?

How could we help people find and learn about Lucid’s tools and shapes?

People would poke around menus.


But some things were hidden

We thought about making the menus bigger.

But they would cover important things.

People could search.


But they didn't think to search for tools and shapes.

So we made a new menu!

It appears only when needed

It appears only when needed

Types "/"

Shows what to search for

Types "L"

Updates in

real time

Types "u"

And finds the best match

People loved the new menu

New tools were found 4% more often.

Existing tools were found 2% more often.

But people didn't like that the mouse label was always there.


So we showed it only when still.

People also didn't like that they had an extra click to place
a shape.


So we let them place shapes directly.

Chapter 2

Coming at some point...

Chapter 2

Coming at some point...