Team: Black Pixel
Platform: iOS
Duration: 4 months (2017)

Designing a collaborative whiteboard app for iPad
As a distributed company, the Black Pixel team was constantly run into the same problem during conference calls, design reviews, and meetings: We needed a “virtual” whiteboard to explore ideas together. So we built Pixelboard to solve this problem.
Today, whiteboarding apps abound, and best in class examples like Figjam bring a wealth of functionality to users directly in the browser. Seven years ago, few such options existed, and Pixelboard aimed to provide a simple and elegant solution to real-time collboration.
The native iPad app allowed you to collaborate with up to nine other people in whiteboarding sessions in real time. If you were invited to a session, all you needed was the app and an internet connection to join.

The drawing tools worked equally well with a finger tip or stylus, and the gesture tool allowed users to point, circle, and swipe across the boards to highlight points of emphasis. Images and design comps could be easily imported and marked up, and boards could be exported at the conclusion of each worksession.
