It’s been a busy year at Miro. We hit the road for over 250 events so we could get inspired by the passion and energy of our community. We managed to bag a shoutout as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for team collaboration apps, which is entirely down to the way that you — our customers and users — put your trust in us as a leading platform for teamwork.
And best of all, more and more of you have joined us on this journey to change the way you work and innovate. We’re blown away that over 80M people in 250,000 companies now use Miro to get from idea to outcome faster.
For us, the year culminated in the launch of the Innovation Workspace, the biggest transformation in Miro’s history. The Innovation Workspace takes everything we’ve learned over the last 13 years and boosts it with new AI capabilities, powerful workflows and interactive experiences, all on an Intelligent Canvas that empowers teams to build the right thing faster, more collaboratively, and in the ways that work best for them.
One of our customers, Titu Joseph Rajan, the Head on Integration at Centrica, nailed it when he said, “Miro gives us a repeatable, scalable process for innovation that we can use in all our programs. Without it, we’d be moving much slower.”
Like Titu, we’ve been moving fast this year. To give you a flavor of just how fast, we’ve chosen our top 24 features of 2024. These aren’t just the ones we’re most proud of — they’re the ones we think are going to change the way businesses like yours innovate for a long time to come.
Let’s take a look at what they are, and why they matter.
Helping teams work better together
Collaboration thrives when you have the tools you need to create work that resonates with your team. That’s why this year we focused on ways to create personalized, on-brand content, and add interactive elements to your boards, making it easier to align and share your vision with stakeholders. By using these features, you’ll not only enhance your visuals but also improve collaboration and communication with your teammates.
Creating work with style
We started with customization. With these updates, you can effortlessly create content that reflects your brand identity. This means you can leave a lasting impression on stakeholders by communicating your vision with your own personal branding. Sounds good? We think so!
1. Create the right impression with Brand Center
Maintaining a consistent, on-brand look across your Miro boards is now effortless. With the Brand Center, you can upload your team’s fonts, colors, and logos. From brainstorming sessions to detailed diagramming, you can now align your visuals with company branding and assets, allowing you to showcase your work with confidence and professionalism.
2. Communicate complex ideas with an image and icon library
Elevate your boards with an expanded library of images and icons, giving you more ways to visually communicate complex ideas. Whether you’re adding flair to a flowchart or emphasizing key points in a presentation, this rich library helps you create compelling visuals that captivate and inform.
Sharing your work and maintaining alignment
Sharing your work is all about ensuring your ideas resonate clearly and keep stakeholders aligned. Here’s how our Talktrack and presentation updates help you to present your work with impact.
3. Give meetings a miss, thanks to Talktrack
You all know and love Talktrack, the simple way to summarize your boards. But this year, there are a few standout updates that help you to collaborate more easily than ever before.
Now, you can embed your Talktrack presentations seamlessly in Coda, Notion, and Productboard. Viewers can watch and interact with your Talktrack directly within these platforms, making sharing and engagement effortless. Simply copy the Talktrack link from Miro’s collaboration toolbar to get started!
There’s even more ways to collaborate with your teammates via Talktracks thanks to reactions. When viewing a Talktrack, you can use emojis to react to specific moments, ultimately improving the feedback process. And you can catch up on async work while on the go by viewing interactive Talktrack video walkthroughs on your mobile device, giving you the flexibility to explore board content anytime, anywhere.
We love the feedback we heard from a global FinTech customer who told us, “Before, we were having to build boards and have fake meetings just to record instructions. With Talktrack, we could do it directly in Miro.” Fewer fake meetings? That has to be good.
4. Deliver more polished presentations
Enhance your presentations with Presenter notes. Use cues and reminders to deliver a polished, confident presentation, and ensure nothing important gets overlooked. By staying clear and composed during your delivery, you can ensure a better understanding and alignment with your teammates, improving collaboration and decision-making.
Engaging teams with interactivity
Collaboration becomes meaningful when everyone is actively engaged. Our latest features ensure that team members are not just observers but active contributors on the canvas.
5. Keep the energy up with Intelligent Widgets
Make meetings more engaging with Intelligent widgets designed for interaction and decision-making:
- Dot voting: Gather opinions and prioritize ideas effortlessly.
- Polling: Run quick surveys to gauge sentiment or preferences.
- People widget: Visualize team involvement and responsibilities.
- Story points: Simplify project estimations for agile workflows.
6. Hear every voice with QR Stickies
Encourage on-the-spot participation with QR Stickies, which let team members add their input instantly via their devices. Whether remote or in-person, everyone has a voice in the conversation.
7. Get conversations going with Comment Bubbles
Create a dynamic dialogue with Comment bubbles, designed to streamline feedback by keeping conversations focused and accessible directly on the board.
8. Be more productive with Action Shortcuts
Workshops and meetings are now more effective with Action shortcuts for Timer, Private Mode, and tools for Estimations and Dependencies. These shortcuts save time, reduce friction, and ensure productive sessions where every minute counts.
9. Get a global perspective with new language support
This year we continued to expand our global reach with support for Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and Polish, making sure that Miro is accessible to even more teams worldwide.
10. Be more inclusive with accessibility improvements
Inclusivity is a priority at Miro, and we want to make sure that the canvas is accessible for all. The new Accessibility checker ensures your boards meet accessibility standards, while updates like AI-powered alt text and assistive technology compatibility allow every team member to engage fully, regardless of their needs.
Speeding up your workflows
We know just how important it is to make your work processes as streamlined as possible. From structured formats to powerful AI integrations, here are some of our favorite features that help you accomplish more in less time.
Streamlining your workflow with new structured formats
11. Turn messy ideas into structured info with Docs
Simplify your process of documenting ideas, plans, and insights with Docs. Seamlessly integrate them with your board to centralize information, add context, and ensure everyone stays aligned. Miro AI takes this one step further by providing predefined prompts or allowing custom inputs for quick and accurate document creation in just a few clicks.
Creating diagrams more efficiently with our diagramming updates
12. Simplify your content with Layers
Layers provide a powerful way to organize and manage content on your board, making it easier to handle complex diagrams with precision and structure. This feature is especially useful for creating diagrams with multiple versions of similar content. By stacking Layers on top of each other, you can quickly switch between variations by adjusting the order.
13. Create the right visuals faster with custom shape packs
Layers aren’t the only way to speed up your diagramming workflow. Custom shape packs allow you to design diagrams tailored to your industry or project needs. By providing ready-to-use, specialized shapes, this feature helps you create precise visuals faster, saving time and improving the efficiency of your workflow.
14. Save time on your first draft with AI-generated diagrams
Save time with Miro AI’s ability to automatically generate diagrams from text. Simply input your ideas or descriptions, and let AI transform them into structured visuals, accelerating your ideation and execution.
Jan Mark Holzer, a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, especially liked this one. He called our new AI capabilities “groundbreaking”, and reckoned they’ll “boost productivity and accelerate the transformation of ideas into actionable outcomes throughout our process from discovery to delivery.”
Optimizing Agile workflows
For Agile teams, these updates accelerate project planning, tracking, and collaboration, keeping workflows fast and efficient.
15. Integrate your favorite tools with Planner
Keep your Agile projects organized with improvements to Planner. Here are more of our favorite planner updates:
- Bidirectional Azure sync: Sync your work seamlessly between Miro and Azure DevOps. Changes made in one tool update automatically in the other, ensuring everyone works with the latest information.
- Real-Time Jira updates via OAuth 2.0: Miro’s real-time Jira integration keeps your boards up-to-date with OAuth 2.0 webhooks. No more manual syncing—just instant updates to keep your team aligned.
- Updated filter options for Planner: Quickly find what you need in Planner with advanced filtering capabilities. Prioritize and sort tasks for improved clarity and focus.
- Planner for Jira: Manage Jira projects more effectively with Planner for Jira, which combines Miro’s visual strengths with Jira’s robust task management.
Saving time with Miro AI
Miro AI continues to redefine how you work by turning ideas into action. This year, our focus on innovation comes hand-in-hand with AI updates that help you get work done faster.
16. Get expert writing help with AI
Whether drafting text or refining content, Miro AI can:
- Translate text to bridge language barriers.
- Rewrite for clarity to ensure your message is crystal clear.
- Adjust tone of voice to match your audience or brand.
17. Quickly catch up with Conversation Summaries
Sometimes cutting through the noise is what takes the most time. That’s why we love our Conversation Summaries that provide concise overviews of comment threads. Identify key insights without missing important details, saving you time and keeping your focus sharp.
If you want to know how impactful this is going to be, look no further than Isaac Garcia, an Agile Coach at Simpli.fi, who said, “Being able to quickly summarize the content on a board is going to be revolutionary.” He’s not the only one who thinks so. According to Clyde D’Souza, a Senior Software Engineer at Xero, “Having these new AI capabilities and connecting with existing platforms like Google Docs and Jira will massively speed up the delivery process.”
18. Do more with your AI models
Level up your AI game by integrating your own AI models into your canvas. This not only speeds up your workflow, enabling you to work with the AI models that you love, but allows you to be flexible, tailoring AI capabilities to your specific workflows and challenges.
The workspace that adapts to your needs
Flexibility is at the heart of our updates, so that you can work your way. Whether it’s creating tailored environments, connecting with the tools you love, or integrating with powerful platforms, Miro ensures that your workflow adapts to your unique needs, not the other way around.
Tailoring your workspace
19. Organize your projects with Spaces and Sections
Say goodbye to cluttered boards and hello to a streamlined workspace with Spaces. Now, you can create intuitive environments tailored to your projects and teams. Spaces offer enhanced organization and contextual flexibility:
- Create dedicated Spaces for specific teams or business contexts.
- Automatically transition existing projects into Spaces for a smooth upgrade.
- Organize boards hierarchically for better management across teams and projects.
Within each Space, use Sections to further categorize and prioritize your content. For example:
- Group related boards under categories like “Product Design,” “Sprint Planning,” or “Client Work.”
- Toggle between sections to quickly locate the content you need.
With Spaces and Space Sections, your organizational style is prioritized, whether you’re managing a single project or an entire portfolio.
Integrating seamlessly with tools you love
Miro now supports over 160 integrations, ensuring that you can work efficiently across your favorite platforms. Whether you’re managing code, tracking sales, or syncing tasks, Miro fits right in:
20. Sprint planning and more with GitHub
Integrate GitHub to visually map repositories, track issues, and plan sprints in Miro. Link directly to commits and pull requests for streamlined dev workflows.
21. Bring sales data to life with Salesforce
Bring sales data to life by integrating Salesforce with Miro. Collaborate on customer journeys, visualize pipelines, and plan strategies, all in one place.
22. Enhance productivity with Microsoft
Miro deepens its integration with Microsoft, offering new tools to enhance productivity:
- Miro for Microsoft Outlook: Quickly add Miro boards to emails, keeping context at your fingertips.
- Microsoft Teams Extensions: Collaborate on boards directly within Teams channels or meetings.
- Miro for Microsoft Copilot: Supercharge planning and productivity with AI-powered insights directly in Microsoft tools.
23. Keep everything connected with Coda
Embed Coda docs into Miro to combine the power of structured data with the creativity of a canvas. From tables to workflows, keep everything connected.
24. Scale more effectively with Cloudview + AWS Cost Calculator
Visualize cloud architectures with Cloudview, and manage costs with the AWS Cost Calculator integration. Map cloud ecosystems, assess expenses, and strategize scaling, all from your Miro board.
As we look back on an incredible year of innovation, it’s clear that 2024 has been all about empowering you to work smarter, faster, and more flexibly. These 24 standout updates celebrate the creativity, speed, and adaptability that define the modern workspace. From streamlining workflows to enabling personalized collaboration, Miro continues to transform the way teams work together. Here’s to pushing boundaries and working your way in 2025!
