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Collaborate intuitively with your team

Create a concept map to easily visualize your concepts.

Organize your ideas

Bring order to your brainstorming sessions and uncover valuable insights with features like Gather and Sort, Tag, timer, and Breakout Boards.
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Easily import your concept map

Import your boards from Miro and other online concept mapping software into Lucidspark and pick up where you left off. You can also import PDFs, PNGs, and CSVs.
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Collaborative AI

Build a concept map quickly and intuitively. Use Collaborative AI to generate new ideas and build off of existing thoughts.
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Brainstorm and ideate

Bring your best ideas to life with our free concept map creator. Utilize freehand drawing to unlock creativity on an infinite canvas. Import customizable templates for inspiration and add sticky notes to collaborate with your team. Lucidspark’s concept map builder makes brainstorming effortless.
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Share and collaborate instantly

With sticky notes, annotations, and other collaborative tools, you can instantly gather feedback and share insights with your team. Collaborate on a concept map today to align your ideas and concepts.
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Strategic planning

After you’ve created a concept map, it’s time to turn your ideas into action. Vote on your favorite ideas as a team, group common themes, and discuss them in Breakout Boards. You can even turn your Lucidspark board into a presentation to share with others.
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Other ways to use Lucidspark

Meeting and workshop facilitation

Capture your team’s best ideas with better meeting prep and more engaging experiences.

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Agile development

Get everyone on the same page during standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

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Project planning

Bring cross-functional teams together to make decisions, clarify workflows, and track progress.

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User research

Keep stakeholders aligned as you explore customer needs and map the customer journey.

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Brainstorming

Build connections and spark creativity by ideating with your team in real time or anytime.

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Strategic visioning

Prioritize your business needs, communicate your vision, and get buy-in from stakeholders.

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See how teams brainstorm and collaborate using Lucidspark

Get started in minutes with our short tutorial.

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A demo of a sample Lucidspark brainstorming board is shown, with lots of active participation from the four participants across the entire board. Next, a rapid series of close ups demonstrating some Lucidspark features: Writing on a sticky note, drawing a circle around an idea, starting a 30-second timer, crossing an item off an agenda, adding emoji reactions to a sticky note, and sharing a board with collaborators in the share settings. The video then continues to demo features in line with the narrator's audio for the remainder of the video. The video ends with the Lucidspark logo and tagline Where ideas ignite.

  • Learn how to set up and organize your board for success.
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  • Set timers during brainstorming sessions.
  • Learn how to use Breakout Boards with smaller groups.
  • Utilize intuitive features to sort and gather your team’s ideas.
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Concept map templates

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Simple concept map

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Mind map with AI

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See why teams choose Lucidspark as their concept map maker

Ideate, plan, and take action faster.

Collaboration

Facilitate more productive brainstorming sessions. Bring your team together in real time or anytime to share ideas, make decisions, and identify next steps.

Clarity

Increase your team’s shared understanding with Lucidspark’s visual canvas. Use shapes, freehand drawing tools, and text to clearly communicate your message.

Alignment

Leverage capabilities like Visual Activities, Breakout Boards, and timed voting to gauge opinions and achieve consensus. Get aligned and make informed decisions faster.

Better together

Collaborate at every stage of work with the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite. Combine Lucidspark for virtual whiteboarding and Lucidchart for intelligent diagramming.

A concept map generator to enhance your lessons and presentations

Concept maps can be used for a variety of educational purposes. For teachers, you can use it to explain difficult topics, gauge understanding, and enhance strategic thinking skills among students. Concept maps can also help students memorize, outline assignments, take notes, and enhance group brainstorming sessions.

About Lucidspark

Lucidspark is the virtual whiteboard that connects teams so they can bring their best ideas to life. One of three individually powerful yet highly connected visual collaboration products from Lucid, Lucidspark enables real-time or asynchronous brainstorming, planning, and organization of ideas into actionable next steps.

Frequently asked questions about our concept map maker

What is a concept map?

A concept map is a diagram or graphical tool that visually represents relationships between concepts and ideas. Most concept maps depict ideas as boxes or circles (also called nodes), which are structured hierarchically and connected with lines or arrows (also called arcs). These lines are labeled with linking words and phrases to help explain the connections between concepts.

How do I create a concept map in Lucidspark?

Use a template to easily get started, or take the following steps:

  1. Select a main topic.
  2. Identify key concepts.
  3. Organize each concept using shapes and lines.
  4. Examine your map for accuracy.
What is the difference between a concept map and a mind map?

Mind maps and concept maps are similar in their objectives but their construction and use cases vary.

Concept maps are a bit more varied in how they depict relationships, while mind maps are typically limited to radial hierarchies and tree structures. Concept maps depict cross-linking between multiple relationships. Mind maps focus on a straightforward flow of ideas from one main topic, or a single parent/several children construction. Concept maps are typically applied in more formal business and academic settings, whereas mind maps are more spontaneous and flexible in their application. Concept maps explore ideas and concepts that have been introduced externally, such as theories or existing systems. Mind maps usually flesh out topics that have been generated internally.

What are the benefits of using Lucidspark for educational presentations and activities?

Lucidspark makes it easy for teachers and students alike. Students can collaborate in real time on assignments while teachers can create engaging presentations with Presentation Mode to share with the class. We offer many templates to help you turn your board into a slide deck in just a few clicks.

If I’m unsure of what I need to create, do you have templates to help me get started?

Lucidspark offers hundreds of templates to help you plan projects, run meetings, and brainstorm ideas.

How much does Lucidspark cost?

Lucidspark offers a variety of pricing plans to meet individual and team needs. We offer individual free accounts all the way up to Enterprise accounts for large organizations.