There are so many words we could use to describe our Miroverse community, but one of the first that comes to mind is creative — as you consistently impress us with inventive and practical templates.
In our latest challenge, we asked Miroverse creators to design templates that use at least one of our new Intelligent Widgets — four intuitive add-ons that bring new collaborative functionality to your Miro canvas.
Here’s a quick rundown of how these Intelligent Widgets work:
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People: Display your team members on your board, so you can quickly drag them to an object or add them as an assignee
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Dot Voting: Allow team members to easily cast a vote by dragging and dropping a colored dot onto their choice
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Story Points: Works similarly to the Dot Voting widget, but lets team members assign a task or project’s estimated story points (a unit of measure that indicates the difficulty of a task)
- Polling: Embed survey questions directly onto your Miro canvas
Want to see how Miroverse creators incorporated these widgets into different templates and use cases? Whether you want to learn more about your team members or how to run a better meeting, we’ve rounded up 20 different templates you can use today.
1. Mauro Lupi’s Widgetized Meeting template
Want to run more effective meetings? Mauro Lupi’s template can help with three different Intelligent Widgets. Kick things off by using the Dot Voting Widget to answer a couple of icebreaker questions, use the People Widget to visualize your meeting’s participants, and then wrap up with the Polling Widget to solicit feedback about how things went.
2. Ricardo Caires’ Who Are You In Innovation? Icebreaker template
Ricardo Caires’ icebreaker template helps team members understand each other’s working styles and can spark meaningful conversations about collaboration and creativity. Team members place an indicator — this template offers options for either the People or Dot Voting Widget — to show where they fall on a spectrum of innovation approaches.
3. John Bourke’s Personal Values by Association template
This template created by John Bourke is another one that can help team members get to know each other better. Your team will split into pairs to ask each other word pair questions (for example, Are you more like a clock or a thermometer?). In the next step, they’ll use the Dot Voting Widget to select several core values they think are important to their partner based on the previous responses.
4. Paul Snedden’s RACI Stakeholder Matrix template
Eliminate any confusion about roles and responsibilities for a given project or sprint using Paul Snedden’s RACI Stakeholder Matrix template. You’ll list your tasks or activities and then use the People Widget included on the template to drag team members’ avatars into the column that indicates their role using the RACI framework (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, or Informed).
5. Dave Westgarth’s Dot Vote Roulette template
Bring the energy of a casino to your next team meeting with Dave Westgarth’s template. Use the Dot Voting Intelligent Widget to place your bets on the Roulette table and then spin the wheel. If you’re new to Roulette, the template has built-in explanations, tips, and strategies to help. Whether you’re looking for a way to help your remote team bond or insert some energy into a weekly standup (or both!), this template is for you.
6. Dave Westgarth’s Dot Vote Quiz template
This Dot Vote quiz template is another way to engage your team in a little friendly competition. Mirroring the style of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”, this board showcases trivia questions across a broad spectrum of categories. Participants can select their answers from the multiple-choice options using the Dot Voting Widget. Winners likely won’t get one million dollars, but it’s still an excellent way to learn new things and bond.
7. Dave Westgarths’ Dot Voting Games and Icebreakers template
Looking for several different team-building activities and icebreakers in one spot? This template brings together 10 games on one board. From Roulette and trivia to football or a straightforward emotion check-in, all of the games use the Dot Voting Widget to make engaging with your remote, hybrid, or in-person teams easy.
8. Erich Neugebauer’s Interactive Tools – Lean Coffee template
If your team loves a Lean Coffee meeting format, this template created by Erich Neugebauer is for you. It provides just enough structure to run a productive meeting while still using the Lean Coffee approach. You’ll find plenty of interactive tools, including the People Widget to display meeting attendees, the Story Points Voting widget for participants to cast votes, and the Polling Widget to collect feedback about how the meeting went.
9. Gerard Portero Gonzalez’ Story Points Workshop template
Maybe you and your team are intrigued by Story Points but don’t know how to get started. This template by Gerard Portero Gonzalez is packed with information to help you get comfortable with the concept and learn how to use Story Points to measure the effort required to complete a task. This helps you and your team break down work into manageable pieces and determine reasonable goals and milestones.
10. Anna Manou’s Status Update Team Meeting template
This simple template by Anna Manou will bring more intention to your status update meetings.. You’ll start by using the Dot Voting Widget for a simple mood check-in, then use the Polling Widget to ask the team an icebreaker question. After that lighthearted fun kicks off the meeting, move to the business updates section where team members can share important information.
11. Ricardo Caires’ Intelligent One Page Diagnostic template
Successful projects start with careful planning and team alignment, and this template by Ricardo Caires can help you with just that. Use the People Widget to create a simple organizational chart for the project, so everyone is clear on roles and responsibilities, and then move through the other template sections to discuss the context, risks, goals, target audience, and success metrics.
12. John Bourke’s Transform Your Resume With F.A.B. Statements template
If you’re working on your resume, John Bourke’s template will help you make it memorable with F.A.B. statements (F.A.B. stands for features, accomplishments, and benefits). The first part of the template covers what these statements are and their benefits. Then you can review examples and use the Poll Widget to select which one you think is most impactful. In the final part of the template, you’ll have space to practice writing F.A.B. statements of your own.
13. John Bourke’s The Focused Conversation Method template
This template by John Bourke breaks down the structured conversation method (often called the ORID method). You and your team will choose a topic and then move through the four sections of the ORID method: objective, reflective, interpretive, and decisional. After your discussion, you’ll work together to brainstorm your next steps and use the Dot Voting Widget to determine a winner.
14. Osama Siddiqui’s Hybrid Innovation and Product Development template
Osama Siddiqui’s template will take you through a three-day workshop that pulls together diverse participants to generate innovative new product ideas. You’ll start with a lighthearted mood check-in that uses the People Widget before tackling problem framing and using the Dot Voting Widget to vote on ideas. By the end of the workshop, your team will have a completed project charter to bring that new idea to life.
15. Johanny Pestalozzi’s GenAI Navigator template
Generative AI is brimming with potential, but it can also be overwhelming for teams to figure out which tool is right for their needs and preferences. Johanny Pestalozzi created this template to help teams navigate, evaluate, and select a generative AI tool through a simple, collaborative process. Your team will follow a structured journey that uses the Polling Widget to solicit feedback and the Dot Voting Widget for team members to score the tools they’re comparing to find the best solution for their organization.
16. Valerie Katulka’s Streamline Your Meeting Cadence template
Regular meetings have a tendency to become unproductive if left unchecked, but this template created by Valerie Katulka gives your team a chance to evaluate existing meeting practices and make necessary improvements to keep things engaging. The template relies on the Dot Voting Widget for team members to provide feedback about current meetings, call attention to the causes of meeting challenges, and vote on potential solutions.
17. Kusuma Sukma’s Intelligence Co-Writing Storybook template
When you need to tell a compelling story — whether it’s for a marketing campaign or even a personal project — Kusuma Sukma’s template can help you combine your human creativity with AI. Use the story canvas and Dot Voting widget to figure out the basic framework of your story before moving into the timeline and individual chapters.
18. Noah Fishel’s Survivor Season 47 Draft Board and Tracker template
If you know a few people who are big fans of the show “Survivor,” use this template created by Noah Fishel to bond over your shared interest. Use the People Widget to decide your draft order and select players for your teams. As the season progresses, use the tracker to monitor the major events. Who will get voted off the island? Only time will tell.
19. Shayne Smart’s Visually Scaled Story Points template
The Visually Scaled Story Points are designed to be an even more accessible variant of the Story Points Widget. In this template by Shayne Smart, the story points are proportionally scaled (using the area of the circle), which reduces cognitive load and makes it easier for your team to understand the estimated effort for tasks and initiatives at a glance.
20. Mark Hirst’s Bulls Eye Scoring template
When you need to run a voting session during a workshop or event, Mark Hirst’s template makes it simple. Use the bullseye chart to identify the ideas you want to vote on. Then team members can use the Dot Voting widget to assign their weighted votes across different ideas. Once everyone is done voting, use the table to score the choices and find your winner.
