Fabrie

Fabrie is a revolutionary collaborative platform and digital whiteboard built specifically for designers and creative teams. It reimagines the entire design workflow by merging an infinite visual canvas, powerful spreadsheet-like databases, and a suite of advanced AI tools into a single, cohesive workspace. Whether you're brainstorming initial concepts, managing complex projects, or presenting final designs, Fabrie provides the tools to keep your team aligned and your creative process fluid. It supports both real-time and asynchronous collaboration, allowing teams to work together seamlessly, regardless of their location. With its unique ability to handle everything from rough sketches and mood boards to detailed project plans and AI-generated renderings, Fabrie positions itself as the ultimate hub for modern design execution.

How to use Fabrie

Getting started with Fabrie involves embracing its visual-first workflow, which is designed to be intuitive for creatives. The process typically follows these steps:

1. Research and Exploration: Begin by gathering all your research materials—images, links, notes, and documents—onto the infinite whiteboard. Use tools like mind maps, flowcharts, and sticky notes to visually organize information and uncover insights.
2. Ideation and Brainstorming: Invite your team to a collaborative session. Use the digital whiteboard for brainstorming, sketching ideas, and evaluating concepts together in real-time or asynchronously. All contributions are automatically documented.
3. File and Asset Management: Drag and drop your design files, including complex formats like Photoshop (.psd) and Procreate, directly onto the board. Fabrie renders them visually, eliminating the need to constantly export JPEGs and keeping source files accessible.
4. Structured Planning with Databases: Create databases within your workspace to manage tasks, material libraries, or product ranges. Use the "Synced Record" feature to drag a database row onto the whiteboard, creating a visual card that stays synchronized with the table.
5. AI-Powered Creation: Leverage Fabrie AI to accelerate your work. Use simple text prompts to generate mind maps, SWOT analyses, or business model canvases. With the Design Copilot plugin, you can transform rough sketches into polished, photorealistic renderings in seconds.
6. Review and Iterate: Organize design iterations visually on the board. Use tables to track feedback, assign tasks, and document the decision-making process, ensuring clarity and accountability.
7. Presentation: Use the "Frame" tool to define sections of your whiteboard. With a single click, these frames are converted into a clean, professional slideshow, allowing you to present your process and results effortlessly.

Core Features of Fabrie

• AI-Powered Whiteboard: An infinite canvas equipped with AI to generate diagrams, tables, and text (e.g., SWOT analysis, mind maps, brainstorms) from simple prompts.
• Design Copilot: An AI image generator that can render sketches into realistic visuals, modify image details, and combine different artistic styles based on text prompts.
• Integrated Databases: Create powerful, spreadsheet-like tables directly within your workspace. Features "Synced Records" that link table data to visual elements on the board for dynamic project management.
• Seamless File Integration: Natively supports and renders a wide range of file types, including .psd, .procreate, PDFs, and standard documents, keeping all project assets in one place.
• Real-time and Asynchronous Collaboration: Work with your team simultaneously on the same board or leave comments and updates for them to review later.
• One-Click Presentations: Instantly turn organized frames on your whiteboard into a polished slideshow, perfect for presenting your design journey and outcomes.
• Professional Templates: A library of editable, design-focused templates for various use cases like UX/UI design, fashion, and graphic design, which can also be generated by AI.
• Data Privacy and Security: Offers private workspaces, data encryption, and a commitment that user data is never used for AI model training. Users retain full intellectual property rights over their creations.

Use Cases for Fabrie

Fabrie is versatile and supports the entire design lifecycle across multiple industries:

• UX/UI & Product Design: Ideal for creating user flows, stakeholder maps, managing design sprints, documenting user research, and iterating on wireframes and mockups.
• Fashion and Industrial Design: Used for creating mood boards, managing material libraries and range plans, tracking prototyping, and visualizing product collections.
• Graphic Design & Branding: Facilitates brainstorming sessions, organizes brand assets, reviews design drafts with clients, and presents final concepts.
• Project Management: Teams can use Fabrie for visual project planning, creating timelines, tracking task progress with integrated databases, and centralizing all project-related communication and documentation.
• Education and Workshops: Teachers and facilitators can use the platform for real-time student feedback, collaborative exercises, and engaging remote learning sessions.

Advantages of Fabrie

Fabrie stands out by offering a unique combination of freedom and structure:

• Unified Workspace: It eliminates the need to juggle multiple applications (like Miro, Notion, and Midjourney) by integrating their core functionalities into one platform.
• Enhanced Creativity: The blend of a freeform canvas with powerful AI tools allows designers to explore ideas faster and visualize concepts with unprecedented speed.
• Streamlined Workflow: By covering the entire process from research to presentation, Fabrie reduces friction and ensures that valuable information is never lost between stages.
• Visual and Intuitive: The platform's design philosophy is centered around visual thinking, making it naturally intuitive for designers and other creative professionals.
• Scalable Collaboration: It's built for teams of all sizes, from individual freelancers to large design departments, with features that support both simple brainstorming and complex project management.

Pricing and Plans

Fabrie offers a freemium model with plans tailored to different needs:

• Free Plan: Ideal for new users to explore the platform. Includes 300 free AI credits, 300MB of cloud storage, 1 project, 3 editable files, and unlimited team members.
• Basic Plan: Designed for freelancers and small teams. Priced at $9 per seat/month (billed annually) or $15 per seat/month (billed monthly). It includes all Free features plus 100GB team cloud storage, unlimited projects and files, a team library, and HD exports. AI credits are available for purchase.
• Professional Plan: For teams that need extensive AI capabilities. Priced at $29 per seat/month (billed annually) or $48 per seat/month (billed monthly). It includes all Basic features plus unlimited AI credits for every seat, 100GB cloud storage per seat, private projects, and advanced permission controls.
• Fabrie Lite: A forthcoming version focused on local storage and performance for individual users who don't require real-time collaboration.