Free Sketch Template for Affinity Diagram
Last Updated on August 1, 2026 by Editorial Team
Clean well-organized template for affinity diagram in Sketch format. Customizable and can be used for any UX projects.
Learn more how to build an affinity diagram here.
Designed by Geunbae “GB” Lee.
What makes this affinity diagram template genuinely useful is the color-coded label system it sets up before you even start moving sticky notes around.
Yellow, blue, pink, and green labels each carry a distinct role in the hierarchy, and the symbol guide at the top of the file spells out exactly what belongs in each tier.
Yellow holds the raw observations, the direct quotes and data points pulled straight from research sessions.
Blue clusters those yellow notes into themes, pink rolls blue groups into higher-level insights, and green sits at the top as the handful of takeaways that summarize the whole research effort.
That four-level structure is what separates a real affinity diagram from a loose pile of sticky notes, and having it prebuilt saves you from inventing a labeling convention on the fly during a workshop.
Using the Starting Point Page
The second artboard is a practical touch: a full grid of blank yellow labels ready to receive notes the moment you start.
It comes in two label sizes, a “font-large” set for shorter phrases and a denser “font-small” grid for longer observations, so you can pick whichever fits the volume of research you’re synthesizing.
Rather than duplicating a single sticky note dozens of times, you copy the whole board and start typing, which matters when you’re racing through a live workshop or a remote synthesis session with a tight time box.
Because everything lives as reusable symbols, restyling the whole board is a matter of updating one instance of each color and letting the rest follow.
You can also swap the palette entirely if yellow, blue, pink, and green doesn’t match how your team already codes sticky notes, as long as you keep the visual distinction between the four tiers clear.
The comment labels shown alongside each color group give you a place to annotate reasoning or add facilitator notes without cluttering the main note itself, which is handy when you’re documenting the “why” behind a grouping decision for stakeholders who weren’t in the room.
This template earns its keep in UX research synthesis, from card sorting sessions and user interview roundups to competitive analysis debriefs where a team needs to move from scattered observations to a small set of actionable themes.
It works equally well as a live workshop tool projected during a synthesis session or as an async board that a distributed team fills in over a few days.
Because the structure is generic, ordered notes flowing from raw data up to summary insight, it adapts to design sprints, product discovery work, or any qualitative research effort that needs a visible paper trail from evidence to conclusion.
Pair it with a research repository or a presentation deck by exporting the finished green-level insights as a summary slide once the workshop wraps.
Teams that run this kind of synthesis regularly often keep this file as a living template, duplicating the starting point page for each new project rather than rebuilding the label system from scratch every time.