Miro

Definition

Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform where distributed teams can brainstorm, diagram, plan, and run workshops together on an infinite visual canvas.

Overview

Miro provides an infinite digital canvas that mimics a physical whiteboard: users add sticky notes, shapes, freehand drawings, images, and text boxes, and multiple people can edit the same board simultaneously with visible cursors, similar to how collaborative documents work but for visual, spatial thinking. This made it especially popular for remote and hybrid teams running workshops, retrospectives, and brainstorming sessions that used to require an in-person whiteboard. Beyond free-form sketching, Miro includes structured tools such as flowchart and diagramming shapes, kanban-style boards, mind maps, and a large library of templates for common exercises like SWOT analysis, user story mapping, and design sprints. It integrates with tools such as Slack, Jira, and Figma, letting teams pull related work into a board or push outcomes back into their existing tools. Miro competes with more design-tool-native whiteboards like FigJam and simpler, open-source options like Excalidraw; its differentiator is breadth — combining brainstorming, diagramming, and light project-management features into a single, enterprise-ready collaboration platform used across product, design, and engineering teams.

Key Features

• Infinite collaborative canvas with real-time multi-user editing
• Sticky notes, shapes, freehand drawing, and text for open brainstorming
• Flowchart, mind-map, and diagramming shape libraries
• Large template library for workshops, retrospectives, and planning exercises
• Integrations with Slack, Jira, Figma, and other workplace tools
• Video chat, timers, and voting features for running live workshops
• Presentation mode for walking stakeholders through a board

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