Supernova Portal uses a small set of words to describe how work is organized. Once these click, everything else (prototyping, collaboration, sharing) becomes easy to understand.
Workspace
A workspace is your team’s home in Portal. It’s where people are invited, all data is stored, and where access is managed at the highest level.
Example:
“My company” workspace with all PMs, Designers, and Engineers.
Project
A project is a space for a single initiative — such as a feature, redesign, or discovery effort. Projects keep related work together - Prototypes, Documents, and members working on it.
Example:
Project: “New onboarding” or “Checkout improvements (Q2)”
Prototype
A prototype is where you spend most of your time building and iterating on your idea/feature.
- A prototype is always part of a specific project (it can’t live on its own).
- One project can include multiple prototypes (for different features, flows, or ideas).
- Each prototype contains many iterations (saved checkpoints of progress).
- A prototype can also have related documents connected to it, so the “why” and decisions stay close to the work
Example:
- Project: “New onboarding”
- Prototype: “Onboarding flow — mobile”
- Iterations: “Baseline flow”, “Variant A”, “Feedback applied”
- Related document: “Onboarding goals + open questions”
Iteration
An iteration is a meaningful step saved in a prototype’s progress. Use iterations to capture milestones and make reviews easier.
Example:
- Iteration 1: “Baseline flow”
- Iteration 2: “Shorter step 2”
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Iteration 3: “Feedback applied”
Document
A document is another file type inside a project — just like a prototype. It’s where you capture the context around the work: the goal, decisions, notes, requirements, feedback, and next steps.
- A document is always part of a specific project.
- One project can include multiple documents (briefs, specs, meeting notes, decision logs).
- Documents and prototypes are meant to live together — you can keep knowledge close to the UI you’re building.
- Prototypes and documents are interconnected via Agents, so you can move between them easily:
- Create or update a prototype from a document (when you start with a brief and want to prototype the UI)
- Generate or update a document from a prototype (when you built the UI and want to capture or share the decisions)
Example:
Project: “New onboarding”
Document: “Onboarding brief” → create Prototype: “Onboarding flow — mobile”
Prototype updates → generate Document: “Review summary + decisions”
How things are nested (how they fit together)
Think of Portal like boxes inside boxes:
Workspace → Projects → Prototypes + Documents → Iterations