Like App Launcher, Launchpad lets user quickly access the information they need. Using launchpad, you can access visualforce pages, lightning web components, lightning components directly without creating any tab.
There is a standard lightning component named as ‘LaunchPad’ which can use on following lightning pages-
- Home Page
- Record Page
- App Page
Approach is simple to add this launchpad component to these lightning pages. Just drag and drop this component as shown in below screenshot(home page example) and then select launchpad items which you want to display on its screen-

Below screenshot depicts how launchpad looks like on the home screen-

Similarly, you can add launchpad on other lightning pages.