Collaborative Kanban board
I had this last-minute idea for the CLAD Hackathon. I struggled quite a bit with UI visibility, but the overall prototype is working well.
NEXUS is a spatial productivity and collaboration app for Snap Specs that transforms a traditional Kanban board into an interactive mixed-reality workspace.
Teams can create, organize, assign, and move color-coded tasks across a shared workflow. Tasks persist between sessions and synchronize across multiple participants, allowing collaborators to contribute to the same project in real time. Voice input makes it possible to create and edit notes hands-free, while task categories provide immediate visual context.
NEXUS offers two complementary ways to understand a project. Board View provides a familiar Kanban workflow for tracking progress, while Spatial Map turns tasks into movable nodes that can be connected with curved relationship lines. This helps teams visualize dependencies, creative relationships, and larger project loops that are difficult to understand in a flat task list.
Tasks can also become visual workspaces. Users can generate AI concept artwork or 3D artifacts from a task description, keep those assets associated with the task, and place generated 3D models into the surrounding space. Artifact position, rotation, scale, and task relationships are synchronized so collaborators experience the same shared arrangement.
The included multiplayer demo uses the production of a survival game to clearly demonstrate the workflow. Tasks cover environment art, gameplay systems, audio, narrative, QA, crafting, and inventory. A spatial game loop connects exploration, gathering, crafting, survival, and upgrading, while generated concept images and 3D assets demonstrate how teams can move from an idea to a shared visual reference.
Although game development is used as the demonstration, NEXUS is designed for any collaborative project—from product design and filmmaking to education, event planning, architecture, and creative brainstorming.
NEXUS explores a future where project management is no longer confined to a laptop screen. Work becomes spatial, visual, collaborative, and directly connected to the ideas and artifacts a team is creating.