CardBoard Reviews

We use CardBoard to story map some of the apps we create for our medical devices. This software allows us to closely collaborate with partners across the country with no issues!

I really do not have much negative to say about this product. The ease of use can be an issue but that likely comes form people being new to story boarding.

Thanks for the review Kevin!

* Very easy to start using it. After you get yourself familiar with the Story Map Concept and sign up for CardBoard, you can start doing the mapping exercise in no-time. * Simple, yet powerful interface. There aren't too many features in the interface (and I'm not saying they are needed), and that makes the UI nice and clean. You won't get lost in tons of unnecessary or rarely used features, everything is at hand and useful.

The app itself is great, the following points are not criticism, rather ways of further improvement: * Story mapping is not a wide know concept, so some tutorial(s) about story mapping would be great. For example, the competitors storiesonboard offers a "User Story Mapping for beginners" guide. Something like this would be helpful for CardBoard users as well. * UI could benefit from some additions, e.g. to allow to increase the card titles font.

Thank you for the review and suggestions for future improvements.

I like the style and layout of this software. It is similar to how I organize my ideas in my head, on paper and just in general. So for that, it is very easy to understand the workflow and organization of the program.

There's definitely a small learning curve to really get the most out of the product. Which is sort of inevitable I suppose. I think some of the "bulk actions" and clicking & dragging functions could use some improvement.

I love that this is very simplistic. Story mapping shouldn't be complicated. This software is exactly what you need to map out your next project. It allows for easy collaboration with your team. You can leave notes on tickets. You can easily change the color, had swim lanes, add sections for V1, V2, ect. If you're looking for an easy tool to easily digitize your next story map, this is a great choice.

There are a couple funny UX things that you'll realize really quickly and figure out how to accomplish that task. Specifically around moving cards and making mass changes.

Thank you for your review! Simplicity in use is what we strive for every day when we make design decisions.

Ease of use - the way that the cards just rearrange themselves. Being able to group quickly. The blue line. Downloading in csv.

‘Selling’ to various bosses at different work places. They just don’t seem to get it, even tho it’s really cheap & wont make a difference to the budget. Maybe that’s just an issue with me & the places I’ve worked.

This is very easy to use. I enjoy the interface but there are some small hurdles getting set up. Nothing that would slow you down.

The initial setup of the board is a little tough. It would be nice if there were more templates which showed different ways to use the software after picking a theme or something.

It was very easy to use and get started with. Cardboard allowed my team to start mapping out the different tasks needed and start producing our product.

It didn't have as much integration and customization as I would have liked. It worked for almost all of our needs but there were still a few things we felt were missing.

Great that it exists. I was looking for something to digitize my post it thoughts and share with others.

It wasn't very intuitive, the quality of the output was low and I got the sense that this program wasn't cared for or tended to. I quickly found others that were better: Real Time Board and Whimsical

Hi Erika, Check out CardBoard now. I think you would be happy with the new updates!

Ease of use, ease of sharing the information

Moving cards around can sometime screw up the organisation of the cards on the boards

Free trial. easy to use and move cards around. Give you the same "feel" of using post-it notes. Export to PDF option is great!

Free trial was only 30 days. Graphics aren't wild and crazy but serve the purpose.

Thank you for your review! Let us know if you may need an extension of the trial!

I learned about CardBoard from book, User Story Mapping. I so wanted this to be more, but it's a basic implementation of story boarding. It did have TFS integration, which I wanted. I also loved the whole premise of a virtual board for doing story mapping with a remote team.

I found it to be too basic and not very imaginative in its implementation. Given that we'd want to use it with multiple stories and have one place, I felt it didn't give us the tools to do that.

The service is pretty intuitive with a mostly point/click and drag/drop interface. It's easy to change colors and otherwise notate special things about the individual items. I also enjoy the ability to "flip" them for additional info while keeping the face "clean."

It's hard to really get in and kick the tires with the free account... there was initially no option to make your trial boards private, so you either had to be perfectly comfortable with anyone in the world seeing what you're testing, or you had to try to test how well this will work for you using purely hypothetical situations. That's what I did, and I found it was very difficult to decide to pull the trigger for a paid account when I couldn't really use it accurately during the test drive. Seems that they have since allowed you to "upgrade" to a 30-day trial account before paying.

It's simple and fast. Very easy to create story maps, journeys, and it's easy to slice the map into different chunks.

I suppose if I had to nitpick, a 'collapse' option for 'epics' would be handy, especially when you get into huge storymaps...although that would take away the free-flowing nature of the interface.

I enjoy how easy it is to use. The dev team has integrated great features over the years.

While a lot of the features are great. There are times I wish it just remained a simple light weight tool.

I like how you can do flexible user journey map using stickies. The multiple colours stickies are good for segregating​ the ideas and synthesise as and when required.

Lack of templates is something that bugs me at times. With a tool like cardboardit people could cod what not and use it for what not . I think it's capable of much more. I would have loved it more if it had the capacity to save few things as preset and use it in future. Also,​ real-time​ collaboration is a missing piece as well.

Thank you for your review! Keep out our new update that will look to solve the issue stated!

It was easy to start a board, create additional items in a flow, move them around, and the ability to add a point value to a square (story to my team) was fantastic!

Sometimes when moving items, not everything was captured and had to re-move stories.

Easy to understand, even of you don't understand user story mapping

Needs more features, such as better TFS integration.

Ability to map out and then create journeys to be able to get into TFS

Difficult to set up accounts for multiple employees that are on different projects

I love the ease of adding cards up on the board and the software. Helps with project management.

Learning curve. Should be easier to learn

ease of jotting down any process , project notes and not having to rewrite everything. Easy to move steps and reorganize Easy to share with immediate group network

The only issue I have is it is not easy to download and share with other that do not have the same tool

Cardboard is very easy to use. It allows us to quickly add user stories in story planning and to then determine how to slice the stories to create meaningful deliverables.

It's still a bit clunky. Moving several stories at once is difficult.

The simplicity: dragging and dropping cards. It's like 'digital post-it notes'.

When I want to add more details (on the back of the cards), there's no formatting options. Also, if I want to add a column or row in the middle, I need to shift out every individual card.

It is very easy to use, the interface is great.

Don't have any complaints. Perhaps having more colours to chose for the stickies.

simple, straight-forward interface. ability to export and/or link to other common apps.

nothing specific. opens additional browser windows when downloading.

Thank you for your review!

Easy to get started, pleasant color palette

Could have been user error but I experienced an issue with spacing. I couldn't easily manipulate full columns of tiles and experienced added space between columns that I didn't know how it happened or how to remove the space quickly.