Introducing Miro
Concept Map
A quick and easy way for teams
to generate new ideas and structure them to innovate quickly.
Create a Concept Map
to generate new ideas and structure them to innovate quickly.
A collaborative and easy-to-use concept map template
Miro Concept Map template helps teams generate new ideas, organize information, and visualize complex concepts.
A collaborative and easy-to-use concept map template
Miro Concept Map template helps teams generate new ideas, organize information, and visualize complex concepts.
More than just
a concept map maker
Make a concept map – and continue working on other visual tasks using our online collaborative whiteboard platform.
Miro can help teams with everything from mind mapping
and visual project management to agile planning and interactive workshops.
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Miro can help teams with everything from mind mapping
and visual project management to agile planning and interactive workshops.
Concept Map Features
Visualize and clarify even the most complex concepts with Miro's simple, yet powerful Concept Map template.
Real-time collaboration
Co-create with your team members on the same board in real time.
Seamless communication
Built-in video, chat @mentions, and comments.
Presentation mode
Use presentation mode to to explain your ideas to the team with the help of the concept map.
Creative formatting options
Use colorful sticky notes and emoji to create concept maps that are easy to read and fun to interact with.
Integrations with your favorite tools
Leverage integrations with tools like Jira, InVision, Sketch, Google Drive, and more to add more context to your concept maps.
Infinite canvas
Add any content such as other concepts maps, images, documents, and more – all to the same board.
How to create a
Concept Map in Miro
Creating a concept map is easy—there’s no right or wrong way. Typically how it works is, concepts are written in boxes or circles, then label arrows are used to connect them with related ideas or information in a downward-branching hierarchical structure.
Add Concept Map template to your board
Select Concept Map template in the template picker, and use it as is or customize it to meet your specific needs. Add the idea you want to explore or concept you want to clarify to make it the starting point of your concept map.
Choose a topic you want to explore
Identify a topic you’d like to understand better and add it into a box or circle shape. This is the starting point of the concept map, and can be a specific topic or a more general idea.
Brainstorm related concepts
From memory, try creating more shapes that contain concepts and information you know is related to that topic—note the areas you feel you know and the areas you need to review or dig deeper into.
Connect concepts and establish hierarchy
Link sticky notes or shapes to visualize connections between ideas and topics in your concept map. Make sure that the most universal and applicable ideas are at the top, and more specific and less actionable ones are at the bottom.
Invite your team to collaborate
Invite your team members and stakeholders, and get feedback, reviews, and approvals from them, with multiple communication options such as comments with @-mentions, built-in chat and video chat, and more.
Draw from research and never miss a gap
Go through your own research, combine it with your team ideas insights and feedback, and fill in any information gaps you may have missed. Focus on how concepts are related to each other and to the parent topic.
Concept Map FAQs
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Yes, 100%, and it doesn't require a credit card to use it. After you sign up for Miro, you can add Concept Map template from the template picker, invite as many team members as you need to your board for free, and start collaborating.
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Sure! You can share your Concept Map with your team members for viewing or commenting, add them as editors, or export the Concept Map to share it as .pdf.
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Concept map is a type of a diagram that we recommend using for visualizing complex ideas and concepts, drawing connections between them, and organizing them into a hierarchical structure to discuss with your team.
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Pick a concept or topic you want to explore, and write it down. Then, invite your team to brainstorm with you in real time or asynchronously and write down all ideas you can think of.
Make sure you draw lines between them to visualize possible connections between these ideas. Learn more about concept mapping.