Design studio

The Design studio is the platform's built-in **design editor**. You create design documents — diagrams, posters, social tiles, docs, and whiteboards — on a canvas, version them, and share them with colleagues or via a public link.

Mitch Wigham

Updated 14 July 2026 · 32 views

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The Design studio is the platform's built-in design editor. You create design documents — diagrams, posters, social tiles, docs, and whiteboards — on a canvas, version them, and share them with colleagues or via a public link.

Where to find it

Sidebar → Design or /studio. Any user can open it — it is not admin-restricted.

Design document types

When you create a design you pick a type, which sets the canvas size:

Type	Icon	Canvas size
Diagram	📐	1600 × 1000
Poster	🖼️	1240 × 1754
Social	📱	1080 × 1080
Doc	📄	1240 × 1754
Whiteboard	🧩	2400 × 1400

Layout

/studio is a grid of your design documents:

+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|  Design studio.                            [+ New design] |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| [My designs] [All org]            Type — all ▾            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|  📐 Network diagram   📱 Q2 social tile   🖼️ Open day     |
|  DIAGRAM · 3 versions SOCIAL              POSTER · 🌐      |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+

📷 Screenshot placeholder: screenshots/studio-overview.png

The My designs / All org toggle switches scope, and a type filter narrows the grid. Each card shows the type, last-updated time, version and share counts, and a 🌐 marker if it has a public link.

Creating a design

Click + New design.
Give it a name.
Pick a type (sets the canvas size — see table above).
Create — you open straight into the editor.

The editor

/studio/<id> is the canvas editor. It has a left tool rail, the canvas in the middle, and a Properties panel on the right.

+------+------------------------------+----------------------+
| ↖    |                              | Properties           |
| ▭    |     [ design canvas ]        |  Fill   ■■■■■■■■      |
| ◯    |                              |  Font size  ----o--  |
| T    |                              |  Colour ■■■■■■■■      |
| ╱    |                              |  [Duplicate][Delete] |
| 🖼   |                              |                      |
+------+------------------------------+----------------------+

📷 Screenshot placeholder: screenshots/studio-editor.png

Tools

Select (↖) — move and resize existing objects
Rect (▭) — draw a rectangle
Ellipse (◯) — draw an ellipse
Text (T) — add a text object
Line (╱) — draw a line
Image (🖼) — add an image by URL

Pick a tool and click the canvas to drop an object; it then switches back to Select. Drag objects to move them, drag the corner handle to resize.

Properties

With nothing selected, the Properties panel lets you set the canvas background colour from a fixed palette.

With an object selected you can edit it:

Rect / Ellipse / Image — fill colour
Text — content, font size, colour, bold
Line — colour, thickness
Duplicate and Delete the selected object

Keyboard: Delete removes the selected object, Ctrl+D duplicates it.

Saving

The canvas auto-saves a short moment after you stop editing — the header shows Saving… / Unsaved / Saved.

Versions

Click + Version to save a named snapshot of the current canvas. Versions (n) opens the version history, where each entry shows its label, author, and timestamp — Restore rolls the canvas back to that snapshot. Only users with edit access can save or restore versions.

Sharing

The document owner can Share a design:

Per-user sharing — add a user and grant view or edit access. Toggle a share between view/edit or remove it.
Public link — tick Anyone with the link can view to generate a public, view-only URL (/studio/share/<token>). Untick to revoke.

Only the owner can share, toggle the public link, or delete the design.

Permissions

Action	Who
Open the studio / create designs	any user
View a design	owner, shared users, or anyone if public
Edit a design	owner, or a user shared with edit access
Save / restore versions	anyone with edit access
Share / unshare / public link	owner only
Delete a design	owner only