LiveBoard real time business white board Review.

With today’s fast-paced lifestyle business’ are constantly  on the hunt  for professional productivity tools. The tools need to be feature driven, easy to use,  and bottom line enable employees to work more efficiently.

LiveBoard now available for download on The Google Playstore created an application tool to visualize and explain any concept in real-time and share across the globe.

Setup

The setup is simple. Download  LiveBoard from the Google Playstore once the download is complete you are greeted by a tutorial splash screen. After looking over the tutorial, you are free to begin creating shareable content.

Function

Upon the first usage to create a new whiteboard you will have a few options.

Broadcast- broadcast allows you in real time to create content on a whiteboard where other users can view the content.

Invite- you are able to invite other users to view the whiteboard  content that you are creating.

There are  a few other sharing features, but I will let you check them out for yourself.

Once I made my selection on how I wanted to share my whiteboard, the application turned white with a small hovering menu with tools to use at the bottom of my screen. The available tools are a pen, shape tool, eraser, text tool, color changer text, and undo tool. While using LiveBoard, I couldn’t help but think this is a bootleg version of Microsoft Paint with fewer features and resized to an Android screen.

When I created my first document I quickly discovered that you can change the default pen size bigger or smaller, add photos to whiteboard from camera or gallery which is useful.

The first few attempts to share my documents with friends was unsuccessful. When my friends received the email it was an error message that displayed content unavailable. Not to be defeated I tried and tried numerous times to figure out what I was doing wrong. What I discovered is that you first have to invite the users on to view the broadcast and then once the broadcast is complete you can then email the users to view the content. That made no sense to me, but that was the only way I was able to make it work.

LiveBoard has a good concept that is not feature rich enough or able to keep up with the other productivity tools that really benefit a company available in The Google Playstore.

Target Audience

 With sharing content real time and broadcasting the whiteboard, LiveBoard was attempting to reach business professionals that need to correspond and get information to one another quickly. Secondly LiveBoard targeted teachers, and students that they could visually correspond with one another on questions about homework problems or clarification on something that might not be quite clear.

What We Liked

• ability to share drawings and notes
• Start a session without having to create an account

 What We Didn’t Like

• basic design
• lack of features and clear direction
• ability to add photos but can not edit them.

Summary

The longer I used LiveBoard  I understood  exactly what the developers were attempting to do, but the execution was just not there. The design like I stated previously is just a bootleg version of Microsoft Paint. There are some really useful productivity tools that a company can use such as Slack, Google Keep, and Evernote. LiveBoard feels like a beta app or a first attempt at Android Development.

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