Bluescape Reviews

brainstorming, remotely, that actually works

Comments: Incredibly polished piece of software. Virtual meetings if they were designed from the ground up, rather than the camera up.

Pros:

The ability to video call with a shared whiteboard that all participants can contribute to at the same time, regardless of their hardware platform, is pretty amazing. It takes those brain storm meetings properly remote without losing the ad-hocness of people being able to contribute like they would if they were in the room with a pen.

Cons:

The templates are a bit corporate - this sort of software really excels in the educational environment and more templates designed for that would be great.

Bluescape for real teamwork!

Comments: Why I use Bluescape every single day:
It is visual and it’s laid out in the way you want to see it.
It is super easy to use.
It is flexible.
It saves me a lot of time.
It’s the best tool to generate real collaboration and innovation as everyone can get involved.

Pros:

1. The Visual content of what is shared in Bluescape makes it the most efficient way for everyone in the team to understand and process the ideas. It is well recognized that visual data is processed a lot faster by the brain than text. 2. Teamwork: When everyone can SEE everything, it creates the best environment for ALL to engage and exchange and therefore to come up with amazing solutions/Innovations. 3. Easy to Use: It takes not more than 20-30min to start working with the platform and this is a huge advantage when you want/need to have everyone onboard.

Cons:

I don't find part of the platform that I don't like. It augments everything I do/use and I like it.

Too Many Updates Too Close Together

Comments: Overall bluescape is great. It plays a big role in our organization. The updates are never anything we seem to need or want. And updates are way too frequent with no clear role out or intro into them.

Pros:

It has helped with internal communication. Leadership, All Company and Department meetings all use Bluescape to keep information organized as well as a history. Set agendas are used and updated every quarter. We also use it as a searchable database for photos and documents.

Cons:

constant changes, just when i get my company use to one way of doing things you go and change it. way too many text and notecard updates too close together. I strongly feel that updates should be done every 90 days with detailed overview. It makes me crazy and I use bluescape all day every day.

Bluescape Features

Comments: It is a unique tool that sets us apart from others in our industry.

Pros:

I like how we can organize our thoughts, processes and weekly project lists. It helps us stay accountable for what we have committed to. I love how there are always some enhancements as well as new features added from time to time. I really like to be able to customize colors and fonts!

Cons:

I do not like the cursor tracking feature that was added recently. It is very distracting to our team. Would like to know if it is possible to turn this off. I can see how it could be useful when trying to point something out to a remote user while on the phone.

Game changer for visual creative teams

Comments: Having everything laid out in a single space is such an amazing advantage to watch progress and see where we have been. Not having to dig through file names to pull something up has changed the entire approach and ease to the cross pollination of the different aspects of team member's work. Having the entire library of work to choose from at my fingertips has made an amazing change in efficiency and onboarding new crew, and clarifying ideas to active crew.

Pros:

Being a remote and international team, Bluescape has been essential to create to space that a art boardroom or story room would, where ideas and images and process can be shared and reviewed together and on one's own time.

Cons:

Buggy, lags, the alert system is unreliable or maybe i am not aware of my settings.

Worth the Investment!

Comments: Great experience thus far. I do not use it on a daily basis. However, when I do "Design In Real Time", or display the project / floor plan on the Bluescape screen; the customers are always impressed with the software and ask for us to quote Bluescape just to see if the system will fit within their budget.

Pros:

Bluescape is easy to use if you use the software regularly. Great for presentation meetings and Design In Real Time. I love how the presenter / user is able to have Video Conference as well as Draw and write on the screen. In addition, the notes that will be on the screen are able to be stored for later use, emailed to individuals as well as you are able to access your workspace / project file from your mobile app.

Cons:

I do not know or have not practice much on Bluescape to have a "Con" comment.

Great collaboration tool

Comments: It's been a great tool for our company. It's been super helpful in letting people outside of our general team get a look into what we've been working on. We started using it very casually, but now we use it to present to other teams in the office as well.

Pros:

The canvas lets you create a collaboration area in whatever way works for your team and project best. There are very few limitations, and that really helps with quick updates and on the fly collaboration

Cons:

The pen tool is a little tricky. I wish you could draw from canvas onto the picture, but instead you can only do one or the other.

Bluescape is essential for remote collabaoration

Comments: Really positive. I even had a suggestion for being able to edit comments before they were pinned, and the software developers fixed the problem in like 2 days!

Pros:

I like that it allows us to collaborate as designers together, but apart.

Cons:

Sometimes the tools (like the pens or erasers) are clunky and hard to find. I know they will be more refined as time goes on. I know this because the tools have gotten a lot easier to use in the last 2 years.

Bluescape – Digital Pin Up Board (Highly Recommended)

Comments: Think I pretty much summed it up. Overall...if you don't have Bluescape, you're missing out. Productivity levels will definitely increase. You'll look like a wizard when you master the features. And the tools/features are simple to understand.

Pros:

Bluescape is easy and the features are very intuitive. Once you understand the capabilities, the digital pin up board becomes a think tank of ideas, inspiration, a way to show process and a quick way to present in a creative platform. The best part is seeing the "road map" you've created that leads you through (just have to make sure you be organized and systematic about your placement). You can easily access on your phone, tablet and computer. Bluescape offers a touch screen tv that enhances the user experience to another level of productivity. PDF files can be expanded full screen for professional way to present, comments can be written directly and provides access to allowable users. The tool is instrumental to anyone. The blank palette allows for an endless possibility of creation.

Cons:

What I least like about the software is that I didn't discover it sooner. Would've made my job more effective in the past. As Bluescape has added features, my experience has evolved to more complex use cases that can only come with the time you put in. Can't wait to see what Bluescape has in store for the future.

Bluescape

Comments: Bluescape helps us present solutions and manage projects much faster.

Pros:

Having a visual of all content in one place.

Cons:

I am sure it can do video conferencing, but we are usually in another platform and just end up sharing our screen vs having people join through the session. Now that we have a combination of in person and virtual we need to figure out a seamless way to integrate everyone.

Architects Thougths

Pros:

The ability to use it as a collaboration meeting/white board space where mulitple people can be commenting/sketching/marking up at the same time.

Cons:

The ability to output professional looking documents/ sketches from the space.

Bluescape Review

Pros:

The overall design of the program, how it was like a map and easy to creat and modify.

Cons:

For some reason the software only allowed me to edit documents within bluescape, for example I would rather have the software redirect me to Microsoft Word when I select a document.

Bluescape review by student

Comments: Bluescape was a unique experience for me and I liked using it in class wish I could use it other classes more to get more experience I used it in one course for about 5 months. I would definitely recommend professors trying to use it so students get experience in it.

Pros:

The ability to have everything on one page right in front is great. You can post pictures to get people's attention and draw them to certain areas.

Cons:

When multiple users were trying to click into a document sometimes it would get moved or deleted on accident and that could cause issues for the class. Needs to be a way where users can't move things or remove them accidentally. Unsure if there is modes like this.

So helpful when working from home!

Pros:

Bluescape was so helpful when all of our teams were working from home! It allowed us to leave work up for review and collaborate as a team as if we were around one table in the office.

Cons:

We have been unable to @everyone and get all team members tagged and this would be so helpful if fixed!

I mostly love Bluescape!

Pros:

I can't imagine doing this kind of work without Bluescape. It's so easy to get moving quickly and get everyone on the same page with all the information in the same spots.

Cons:

I HATE the little lines it always wants me to draw. I never want to make a connecting line or duplicate a box. I just want to move boxes. Why does it always assume I want a box to be orange with black text? I've literally never wanted that but every single time I make a text box it comes up that way. The dialogue boxes closing after selecting a background color is really annoying too. It should stay open so I can then pick my text color. Too much clicking around.

Review

Comments: Na

Pros:

It was a fun program to use as well as doing group projects

Cons:

it would sometime take long to load or lag while being worked out

Great product!

Pros:

Product is easy to use. I really like that my entire team can use the software, and share whatever we are working on in real time.

Cons:

I would like to be able to customize my look, software that you can tailor is always nice and keeps me interested/wanting to use

Love the Functionality

Comments: It works amazing. Love the new features!!

Pros:

The collaboration and file sharing. Keeping everything in one spot is so helpful.

Cons:

It's expensive and hard to get the proper technology that works with the touchscreens.

Changed our communication as an organization

Comments: Bluescape changed our communication both with Clients and internally. From designing spaces, showing options, creating marketing campaigns, managing multiple projects, sharing information, getting feedback, etc. There are so many uses.

Pros:

Really great for visual people. Can hold so much content and easy to navigate and communicate through the various features. Some of the upgrades have really elevated the experience.

Cons:

New features for excel don't seem to work right and the video conferencing sound isn't very good. We just abandoned those features and use with Teams.

Clients Love Bluescape

Pros:

We love the ease of use during presentations. Clients love to see large screen images and new technology. We have added Ceros presentations to our walls as well. We have multiple projects so we can show different projects quickly.

Cons:

Sometimes the 2 fingers we use don't register and we have to do it multiple times.

Excellent product

Pros:

This product is user-friendly and helps a lot if you are working with collaborators. Makes collaboration easy.

Cons:

Needs high-speed internet and a big screen for efficient use.

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Comments: its useful but could use better interface.

Pros:

easily accessible to other users. group projects are easier to manage

Cons:

zooming in and out is a hassle, especially when some documents are larger than the others in terms of scale

Bluescape for new user

Comments: Minimal experience as most clients don't really want to use it.

Pros:

File sharing seems easy to navigate with real time editing and such

Cons:

overall layout is not user friendly. Find the page layout confusing.

Review

Pros:

It is a trusted tool to collaborate on projects.

Cons:

I would appreciate more templates for project management tools to keep track of team members' progress - Slack-like; and a drag and drop where documents automatically size to a predetermined box - grid lock.

Not a huge user, thought it was cool, but sluggish

Comments: This was collaboration between two teams. I think good messages were delivered.

Pros:

The ability for a bunch of folks to enter information at the same time and collaborate is really cool, and I can see a lot of use cases.

Cons:

It was slow, often items I entered, especially when entering a lot of information, was very slow and not seen immediately by the other participants. Felt like I was trying to break into a conversation on a large zoom.