Google Mixboard is your new AI-powered creative playground (www.techradar.com)

Google announced Mixboard, an experimental U.S. beta that embeds AI into moodboard-style "visual concepting" canvases to help users brainstorm, remix, and iterate on creative ideas from the very start. From a near-blank canvas you enter natural-language prompts (e.g., “cozy minimalist home office” or “retro space-themed board game”), and Mixboard—powered by Google’s Nano Banana image generator—produces visuals, color palettes, sample text and collage-like layouts. You can import and edit your own images, nudge compositions with plain-language tweaks, regenerate boards, or request “more like this” to spawn variants. It’s pitched as a playful, co-creative sketchpad rather than a precision design tool. For the AI/ML community, Mixboard highlights a shift toward integrating generative models directly into early creative workflows rather than as a final-step assistant. Technically notable is Nano Banana’s role: known for 3D figurines, it’s being used here for subtler stylistic control and iterative, language-driven editing. Mixboard’s utility will hinge on prompt quality and UX for steering generation, and Google’s experimental rollout signals ongoing refinement and data-driven improvement. The product also positions Google against Meta and Pinterest in consumer-facing image generation and could influence research and tooling around interactive, multimodal model steering and rapid ideation.