7 templates
Excalidraw templates
Hand-drawn whiteboard aesthetic for real. Drop in an Excalidraw `.excalidraw` JSON export (or compose one inline) and render it as a publication-ready SVG with the signature rough-pen feel. Round-trips with excalidraw.com — paste anything you sketched there.
Two-box hand-drawn flow
Minimal Excalidraw JSON — two rectangles and an arrow, sketchy rough-pen rendering.
Flow & ProcessDecision diamond (sketchy)
Diamond + two outcomes — the kind of figure that lives in a half-finished whiteboard photo.
Flow & ProcessExcalidraw — Sprint Retrospective Board (Start / Stop / Continue)
A hand-drawn retrospective wall with three column headers and nine sticky notes for a software team's sprint review — what to start, stop and continue — and the dot-vote instruction underneath. Every note is a bound label inside its rectangle, so dragging a sticky in Excalidraw carries its text with it.
Project & PlanningExcalidraw — Checkout Architecture Whiteboard Sketch
The architecture a team draws on a whiteboard before writing the design doc: mobile app through an API gateway to the orders and payments services, the orders database, the external card processor behind 3-D Secure, and an order.placed event feeding the email worker — with the open question about idempotency keys pencilled beside it.
ArchitectureExcalidraw — A/B Test Design Sketch With Sample Size
A sketched experiment plan for a checkout redesign: eligible visitors, a 50/50 randomisation, control and variant arms and the primary metric, with the pre-registered numbers underneath — a 3.2% baseline, a 0.4-point minimum detectable effect, α 0.05 and 80% power, which needs about 32,000 visitors per arm. Illustrative values.
Research & AcademicExcalidraw — Incident Timeline Sketch for a Post-Mortem
The timeline a post-mortem starts from, drawn on a whiteboard: from the deploy that shrank the database connection pool at 13:02 to recovery at 13:51, with the alert, page, diagnosis and rollback in between and the phase durations underneath — 7, 5, 17 and 20 minutes, adding to 49 minutes of customer impact. Illustrative values.
Operations & OpsExcalidraw — Sign-Up User Flow With Verification Branch
A product team's sketch of a SaaS sign-up flow: landing page, credentials form, an email-verification decision with labelled yes and no branches, a three-question onboarding and the activation event, plus the reminder email for unverified users and a pencilled note about where drop-off happens.
Flow & Process