Google's Mixboard, still an experimental project within the company's creative tools portfolio, appears to be evolving well beyond its original image-focused canvas. New features currently in development introduce an "Experimental" section that offers users a variety of components stickers, voice notes, geometric shapes, and markers, all of which can be layered onto canvases alongside generated images. The addition of these elements repositions Mixboard closer to collaborative whiteboarding tools like Miro or FigJam, suggesting Google sees potential in blending its generative AI capabilities with structured team collaboration workflows such as retrospectives or brainstorming sessions.
Among the most notable additions is voice note support, allowing users to capture ideas without typing. This ties into a broader voice mode also in development, which would let users control the board entirely through spoken commands, generating images, swapping them out, or rearranging elements on the canvas. The implementation mirrors voice functionality already present in Google's Stitch tool, indicating a shared infrastructure across Google's experimental creative surfaces. The voice mode appears to be functional internally but remains in a testing phase, and given the timing, a public reveal around Google I/O on May 19–20 seems plausible.
Export capabilities are also expanding. A new PDF export option would allow users to generate a summary document from a board's contents, which is particularly useful for team settings where session outcomes need to be shared or archived. Turning a visual collaboration session into a structured PDF bridges the gap between freeform ideation and documentation, a workflow that competing tools have long supported but that Google's AI-native approach could handle with automatic summarization rather than manual formatting.
Whether Mixboard remains a standalone experiment or gets folded into a broader product like Gemini or Workspace will likely depend on how these features perform during internal testing over the coming weeks.
