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The canvas is where you explore and shape your UX map. It is an infinite, Figma-style board: pan, zoom, and arrange everything freely. Each project has exactly one canvas.

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Getting around

  • Pan by dragging with the hand tool or holding space and dragging.
  • Zoom with your trackpad or mouse wheel, or the zoom controls.
  • Select screens by clicking, or drag a box to select several at once.

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What lives on the canvas

Screens

Nodes representing individual pages or states, each with a screenshot.

Connections

Directional links that show how screens navigate to one another.

Flows and frames

Labeled frames that group screens into journeys you can compare.

Comments and notes

Annotations pinned to screens, plus free-floating sticky notes.

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Working with the canvas

  • Use the toolbar to switch tools: hand, select, comment, sticky note, new flow, and add screenshot.
  • Apply automatic layout to tidy a flow, or arrange screens by hand.
  • Open any screen’s properties panel to edit details, manage screenshots, comment, and run AI insights.
  • Reorganize from the chat using slash commands.
Screens are unlocked by default, so you can move them around without unlocking the canvas first. Use the lock option in the toolbar if you want to freeze the layout while you present.

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Saving and collaboration

Your canvas saves automatically. If you work with collaborators, BenchCanvas warns you with a banner when someone else has changed the canvas so you can refresh and stay in sync.