Playbook was born out of a mission to change the way creatives work. As designers and artists ourselves, we know how chaotic managing all your design assets can be — especially for those who work on multiple projects for a variety of clients.
Whether you’re iterating a new design or presenting a finished project, we created Playbook with your needs in mind. It isn’t just another clunky file-sharing platform but a fast and easy-to-navigate collaborative storage solution.
Perhaps the biggest difference between Playbook and other platforms like Dropbox or Google Drive is the visual browsing features that make it easier to find your files — after all, a picture says a lot more than a file extension.
This makes your work more easily accessible and eliminates the need to dig endlessly through folders and subfolders.
Playbook also makes it easy to share and collaborate on your work while maintaining complete control over access and permissions — whether you’re sharing an individual file or a whole board.
Playbook boasts a range of benefits and features that designers and creatives absolutely love. Today, we’re going to take a look at some of the most popular features and hear from three members of the Playbook community — Sheila Streetman, Madison, and JenniferKathryn King — about how they use them.
Visual organizing for the win
Playbook’s visual organization system is one of its most attractive features for creatives. It allows you to browse your work visually instead of clicking through folders and trying to remember what extension you saved that one JPEG file under.
This is storage that makes sense. With Playbook, it’s much easier to find what you’re looking for without the mess of endlessly nested subfolders. The options for viewing your work include:
- Gallery view
- Folder view
- Filtered view (Coming soon!)
- Timeline view
Playbook is the only digital storage platform with visual browsing features, giving you access to your files at your fingertips and making it easier than ever to find what you’re looking for. Just think of all the time you’ll save!
Since designers are visual people, it’s no surprise that the Playbook community loves this feature. Here’s what they had to say about it.
Sheila Streetman
“Playbook is pretty intuitive. I’m the type of person who often skips steps when I’m setting things up, but it was still very straightforward to set up Playbook in a way that works for me.”
Madison
“The platform is very user-friendly and accessible. Before, I couldn’t use files across devices, but now, with Playbook, I can access everything across platforms. Imagine how much hassle that’s taken away for college students hopping across campuses. As someone who loves platforms that put extra juice behind being navigable as well as attractive, it was easy for me to fall in love with Playbook.”
JenniferKathryn King
“All the boards and the sub-boards are easy to navigate and so natural to look at. With Dropbox, we had to go down one rabbit hole after another. One folder opened another folder, and if what we wanted was not in this folder, I had to back out and go into another folder. I love that Playbook is very open and transparent, and people can quickly find what they’re looking for.”
Seamless collaboration and file sharing
Playbook’s powerful collaboration features make it easy to collaborate on creative files and projects with your team members and clients.
Share an individual file or a whole board for others to comment and collaborate on and don’t worry about keeping track of different versions — Playbook’s version history feature does that for you.
Plus, Playbook’s attractive layout makes it easy to present files in a way that’s visually pleasing.
Collaboration features are critical to most designers, who often work asynchronously with collaborators all over the world. So how does Playbook stack up in the eyes of its members?
Sheila Streetman
"In all the work we do as creatives, we want to be professional and make things as easy as possible for the client or the people we are collaborating with. However, with Google Drive, there are some problems. Like when you set up a folder, it’s easy to forget to click “Share” or give permissions, so you end up sending somebody a link that they can’t open, and you have to go back. With Playbook’s publish option, I just click one little button and I’m all set.”
Madison
“You can centralize and quickly share all your assets in one place. This is handy, and something I’ve shared with my old design teachers.”
JenniferKathryn King
“It's effortless to drag and drop files in Playbook. This makes sending files to my clients so much more seamless. The product has streamlined many of our hand-off processes and relationships with our clients.”
Intuitive and user-friendly
Getting started with Playbook is quick and easy. Once you’ve created your account, you can set up your first board with a single click. Then, you can add your files by dragging and dropping them from your device or importing them from Dropbox or Google Drive.
From there, you’re ready to start using Playbook. You can group files together, favorite them for easy reference, share files for collaboration, comment, and publish. Create as many boards as you like — for example, one per project or client.
And don’t worry about cluttering up your space with duplicate files — Playbook automatically de-duplicates them to keep everything neat and tidy.
So what do our Playbook community members say about the platform’s ease of use? Let’s find out.
Sheila Streetman
“Playbook is pretty intuitive. I’m the type of person who often skips steps when I’m setting things up, but it was still very straightforward to set up Playbook in a way that works for me.”
Madison
“The platform is very user-friendly and accessible. Before, I couldn’t use files across devices, but now, with Playbook, I can access everything across platforms. Imagine how much hassle that’s taken away for college students hopping across campuses. As someone who loves platforms that put extra juice behind being navigable as well as attractive, it was easy for me to fall in love with Playbook.”
JenniferKathryn King
“All the boards and the sub-boards are easy to navigate and so natural to look at. With Dropbox, we had to go down one rabbit hole after another. One folder opened another folder, and if what we wanted was not in this folder, I had to back out and go into another folder. I love that Playbook is very open and transparent, and people can quickly find what they’re looking for.”
Flexible layouts
At Playbook, we understand that different creatives have different needs when it comes to how to present their work. For example, an agency creating pitches is going to need a different layout than a photographer or an illustrator.
That’s why Playbook gives you the flexibility to set up your layout in the way that best showcases your work. Alternatively, you can choose from one of our done-for-you templates.
So what do our community members think about Playbook’s layout options? Let’s find out.
Sheila Streetman
“You can pick different layouts and make them fit for you. Because Playbook brings everything to life, I’m confident when I share files and published pages with people.”
Madison
“I love that the platform’s features allow for the flexibility I need as a designer. One of the best things about Playbook is that it lets you create anything into a portfolio.”
JenniferKathryn King
“Playbook makes our videos look awesome.”
Unparalleled file support
File limits are the bane of a creative’s life, whether you’re working with an unsupported file type or very large design assets. At Playbook, we don’t believe in file limits that get in the way of your work.
Our mission is to make life easier for creatives everywhere, which is why Playbook supports the file types and sizes that other platforms don’t. You’ll never be limited by file size again.
Let’s hear from our community one more time about how Playbook’s unparalleled file support helps them get their work done more easily.
Sheila Streetman
“The platform makes my life easy since it accepts all the file types I use. I can’t think of a file type that I’ve had trouble with. Uploading is super smooth as well.”
Madison
“I love how Playbook lets me handle the large files I work with — we’re talking about PNG files larger than 3000px. Playbook lets me download these files in smaller sizes. Playbook also has a feature that allows you to upload design files. This is huge for us designers, as some platforms won’t support design assets. I actually used this feature to run a design competition and collect submissions from participants.”
Playbook is the perfect home for your design assets
If you’ve been looking for a one-stop solution for creating, storing, managing, and sharing your designs, look no further.
Playbook is the beautiful new home your creative files have been waiting for. Not only is it visually appealing and easy to use — it also streamlines collaboration and takes the time and hassle out of organizing and finding your files.
Plus, creatives receive a whopping 4TB of lifetime storage on our Artist + Designer Plan.
So what are you waiting for? Sign up today and give your files the home they deserve.