Google just dropped Mixboard – a collaborative space where you can visually design and remix AI workflows. Picture a digital whiteboard where you drag and drop AI components, connect them into processes, and collaborate with others in real time.
👉 Try it here: labs.google.com/mixboard/welcome
What Mixboard promises#
On paper, it’s an interesting idea:
- Build no-code AI workflows in minutes
- Mix prompts, models, and data sources like Lego bricks
- Co-create with teammates, live, inside the same board
Basically, Miro + Zapier + Google’s AI, wrapped in pastel gradients.
What the internet thinks#
The early reviews are… mixed:
- TechCrunch calls it an AI-powered mood board app for brainstorming and visual inspiration
- TechRadar says it feels like a creative playground – good for rough ideas, not production work
- Yahoo/Tech frames it as Google’s Pinterest with AI – neat, but not exactly revolutionary
- Everyone notes it’s still experimental and could easily vanish into the infamous Google Graveyard
Practical use cases to try#
If you do want to kick the tires, here are a few practical things you could try inside Mixboard:
💡 Brainstorming assistant#
Generate campaign ideas, blog outlines, or product concepts with connected AI components.
📝 Meeting notes generator#
Connect transcripts to a summarization flow for automatic meeting summaries.
🤖 Prototype a mini-agent#
Chain simple AI steps together: research → summarize → draft email.
📚 Team prompt library#
Collect prompts visually and let colleagues remix them for different use cases.
The bigger pattern#
But let’s be honest: the bigger story isn’t Mixboard itself. It’s the pattern.
Google is in a frenzy of shipping AI experiments – Bard, Gemini, NotebookLM, AI Overviews, and now this. Each one launches with shiny marketing, early adopters poke at it, and then… we wait to see if it sticks.
The uncomfortable truth#
The future of AI won’t be decided by who throws out the most demos. It’ll be decided by who makes AI boringly reliable, useful, and indispensable.
Mixboard could be a hint of that future – or just another pastel-colored experiment destined to fade away.
Another AI tool. Another welcome page. Another maybe.
Wake me up when Google ships something that lasts.
Try it yourself: Visit labs.google.com/mixboard/welcome to explore Google’s latest AI experiment.