- Bubble Maps
Free online bubble maps
Create a bubble map online
Deep dive into a particular concept or widen your vocabulary with terms related to a main idea. Create a bubble map to connect and associate each idea or data with one another. Use visual elements such as circle shapes, lines, and even images and icons to map out your ideas. Canva Whiteboards lets you design and collaborate on our online bubble map maker with free templates and amazing tools.
Infinite space made for unlimited ideas
Professionally designed templates to fast-track your workflow
Share and ideate with anyone, anytime, on any device
Run a workshop with whiteboard elements, sticky notes, and a timer
Embed your bubble map in Docs, presentations, and more easily
Easy online whiteboard tools and data visualization
How to make a bubble map
Launch Canva
Choose a bubble map template
Begin brainstorming
Use whiteboard tools and elements
Share and ideate
What is a bubble map?
A bubble map is a great visual tool for learning and brainstorming. It’s a thinking map that works by describing a main concept or idea in a central bubble, usually a noun. You use lines to connect the central topic with more bubbles of adjectives or related concepts. From there, you can map out and visualize the relationships, associations, and parallels between terms and ideas. It’s especially helpful in planning out reports, essays, and even building stories.
Why use bubble maps?
Let great ideas simmer and float around you like bubbles. Harness them in a bubble map that deep dives into a specific concept. Whether it's for brainstorming on a project or working on a story, bubble maps can expand on a topic or word and bring clarity to a concept.
Start with a central concept and let your bubbling ideas hover around it. Connect related ideas like you do when you’re building vocabulary for a word, outlining notes, developing an ad copy, or recalling key concepts at work or school.
Float ideas with bubble maps
Design a bubble map diagram online to organize and grow your ideas. See yourself expanding your vocabulary, enhancing your short story’s world-building, or brainstorming for a project through a central concept. It’s easy to come up with a brilliant bubble map design. With Canva Whiteboards, you can start with free templates and customize them with new and easy-to-use tools and features.
Burst of design elements to use
If art or design isn't your greatest strength, don’t let that fear burst your bubble of creating bubble maps. Canva’s library of shapes, colors, fonts, icons, and images makes it easy to hit the ground running. Swap some text with icons that can represent ideas. You can even drag and drop images into circular frames. Take brainstorming further with Draw(opens in a new tab or window) or custom prompts that turn Text to Image(opens in a new tab or window).
Connect your bubbling ideas
A bubble map is an intuitive visualization tool in the way it mimics our natural thought process. From a central concept, branch out to more ideas using a shape’s Quick Flow or find arrows and connectors in our library to visualize each bubble’s interconnection. While bubble size is often the most important attribute, bubbles may also be defined by their color, position, and text description.
Collaborate with your team
Since bubble maps can be used in brainstorming ideas for reports or papers, you can invite teammates or colleagues to jump in with their own ideas. Share a design link with your team and run a workshop on your bubble map design anytime, anywhere. Collaborate with ease on its infinite canvas, set up a timer, leave sticky notes and comments, and present your bubble map in full view.
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