The importance of mood board and how to create one in Canva

You have probably heard of mood board before, but have you ever thought of how important is it for your design?

Mood boards usually include the main aspects and elements of what you're going to create like colours and objects, typography or even mockups. It's always up to you, what you put on the blank canvas, but its main purpose is to share our vision with others. It can help illustrate feel and atmosphere of your project and what direction you want to go with it, which could be extremely helpful when showing your ideas to clients.

Creating mood board is a fun process and you can create it in almost every program like Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. But there is also website called Canva, which allows you to create mood boards completely for free with some elements, fonts and photographs included.

In this short Youtube video you can see very quick creation of my mood board for fictional bath bombs website.

And what do you think of mood boards? Do you use them for your designs?

References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Hw_xfES4Q, https://blog.sampleboard.com/5-reasons-why-mood-boards-essential-designers/