In early fall, we are releasing our new canvas experience, Playground for the Mind.
Currently we are onboarding test cohorts 🎉 You can register here to test a completely new canvas experience.
We also poured our hearts into making a fun teaser video 👇
Of course, after such an announcement, our community asked many questions.
In this post, we answer the most commonly asked 8 questions.
👀 How do you select the test cohorts?
🧪 What happens in test cohorts?
🧠 What is Playground for the Mind?
⏰ When will you launch Playground for the Mind?
🧑🤝🧑 What does the launch mean for current users, the early supporters?
🏃♀ What does the launch mean for new users?
🚵 What’s the roadmap until the launch?
🛣️ What’s the roadmap after the launch?
1. How do you select the test cohorts? 👀
The Scrintal team selects the test cohorts. After registering your interest here, Mathias, our Head of Product, and I read all the answers.
Bear in mind that both current Scrintal users and those who never used Scrintal before can apply here to test the Playground for the Mind.
We structure each cohort based on the preferred use case for Scrintal.
We email new cohorts weekly.
2. What happens in test cohorts? 🧪
We hold 30 minutes onboarding sessions where we observe how you explore Scrintal without our guidance.
Anyone registering for the early test groups should be ready to meet the Scrintal team in an online meeting. This way, we can learn much faster!
For later cohorts, we will not hold online meetings for later cohorts but will use surveys to collect feedback.
This is how one of our onboardings looked 👇
Just met the @scrintal team to test version 1 of their new Canvas experience.
It's still a long journey to fit my workflows, but having seen how the team takes use case-based feedback into account, I am already excited!
The feedback round continues.
— Bianca Pereira (@BiaResearcher), July 18, 2024 3. What is Playground for the Mind? 🧠
Playground for the Mind is the central concept upon which we build our new canvas experience. We envision a world where play and easy-to-use tools amplify creativity. Our definition of human progress is having fun while thinking in an environment that allows for building insights while playing with ideas. The Playground for the Mind encapsulates our thesis and is also how we name our new canvas experience.
Scrintal’s new experience 🎉
4. When will you launch Playground for the Mind? ⏰
We’ll launch our new canvas experience in early autumn. Yes, we do have a penciled date in our calendars. We’ll announce the date as we get closer to autumn.
5. What does the launch mean for current users, the early supporters? 🧑🤝🧑
The launch means you’ll use the new canvas experience without disrupting your subscription. You will not be affected by any pricing changes we might make during the launch. You’ll also have access to the previous Scrintal canvas experience. We’ll consider anyone signing up before the launch date an early supporter.
6. What does the launch mean for new users? 🏃♀
The new users who sign up after the launch will meet Playground for the Mind and will be priced with our latest plans.
7. What’s the roadmap until the launch? 🚵
We’re entirely focusing on building the new canvas experience until the launch, so we are not shipping new features to our current platform.
With the new canvas experience, we will satisfy the need for a more flexible canvas experience by placing media on canvas, thus allowing for a more leisurely start to ideating.
8. What’s the roadmap after the launch? 🛣️
Following the launch, we’ll focus on integrations to bring data into Scrintal and ensure that the Scrintal boards are meaningfully useful outside of Scrintal.
Thanks so much for reading 🙏 For any questions, ping us in our Slack channel and register for the test cohorts here.