Google’s AI Tool That Turns Text Into Visual Ideas
Google Mixboard is a new experiment from Google Labs that lets you spin out visual ideas by mixing text prompts and images. For product designers, teachers, creators, or anyone juggling visual inspiration, it might shortcut part of your creative grunt work.
By Rodger Mansfield, Technology Editor
September 26, 2025
How about you want to create funny monsters?
Here's a FridayFunday Cool Tip: Try the new Google Mixboard.
What Is Mixboard, and Why It Matters
Imagine sketching a mood board, but instead of dragging in images manually, you just type a phrase like “funny Googly eye monsters” and the app fills the board with visual suggestions.
You can:
- Start from a blank board, a prompt, or one of several pre-populated templates.
- Upload your own images or have the tool generate visuals via AI.
- Use natural-language commands to tweak things (“make background darker,” “add more eyes”) thanks to a specialized image model under the hood, called Nano Banana.
- Hit “regenerate” or “more like this” to iterate quickly.
- Generate contextual text from images on the board (e.g. captions or descriptions).
It’s currently in public beta in the U.S. only and is explicitly experimental.
Google sees it as a testing ground rather than a fully fleshed product.
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