Turn your design boards into client-ready decks without rebuilding anything. Present directly from the canvas where the schematic, site analysis, and material palette already live.
The way we present information and tell stories using slides has a massive impact on how well our ideas are understood and remembered.
Nancy Duarte
Speaker and CEO · Duarte
You could have 100 meetings on it, or you could have space where everyone can go to and see the project as a whole
Ali Lindquist
Associate Principal, Design Director · Neoscape
Iteratively improving slide design through practice helps presenters deliver the intended message within the intended time.
Source: PLOS Computational Biology
Mood boards improved abstract concept articulation by 50% over verbal briefs alone in collaborative settings (n=30 participants)
Source: Leeds Arts University
We have 22 slides templates in our library.
After a design charrette, principals typically spend hours copying diagrams, site plans, and concept boards into a separate slide tool before the client meeting. Miro lets you turn those frames directly into a polished presentation using Interactive Presentation Mode, so the same canvas your team worked on becomes the deliverable.
Firms pitching international projects juggle translated materials, separate decks per region, and last-minute version chaos. Miro AI Translate handles slide text in 18 languages in one pass, so a sole-principal studio and a 200-person firm with global studios both send region-ready decks without a manual reformat cycle.
Schematic design, design development, construction documents - each phase triggers the same setup ritual: duplicate last phase's deck, strip the old content, rebuild from scratch. Miro's Presentation Blueprints package your standard review structure once, and reset cleanly each phase so your firm's principals focus on what changed, not the scaffolding.
Review meetings where clients passively watch a slide rundown rarely surface real decisions. Miro's built-in Voting and live Q&A tools let owners, contractors, and design leads weigh in on finish selections or phasing options mid-presentation - no side emails needed afterward. Responses export directly to sticky notes on the board for follow-up.
Small studios can't afford a deck-design bottleneck before every proposal. Large firms can't let each project manager invent a new layout. Miro's AI slide generation builds a structured deck from a text prompt or existing board content in minutes, and Custom Template Creation locks in your firm's branded slide layouts so every principal ships the same quality output.
Open a new Miro board and use Frames to lay out your presentation sequence - schematic design overview, site plan, floor plan-to-section relationships, material palette, and code compliance narrative - pulling in Revit screenshots, Enscape renderings, and consultant coordination drawings directly onto each frame.
With your Rhino renders and InDesign exports already on the canvas, select that content and use AI Generate Slides to draft the narrative slides between them - value engineering context, program compliance callouts, and ADA conformance summaries - so the deck reads as one coherent story, not a stack of disconnected files.
Use External Embeds to pull Figma details or linked reference sheets directly into slide frames, then trigger Action Shortcuts on your Intelligent Templates so the latest consultant drawings or pro forma figures load automatically at presentation time - no tab-switching in front of a developer CFO.
After rehearsing with your equity partners, record a narrated Talktrack walkthrough of the full design development deck so a facilities director reviewing ADA compliance or a planning commissioner catching up before the vote gets your full explanatory voice alongside every plan, section, and material board - not just the slides cold.
For recurring milestone deliverables (SD, DD, CD phase gates), save your approved frame structure as a Custom Template so every project team in the firm starts from the same branded narrative scaffold - no one rebuilds the title slide, code summary frame, or closing next-steps layout from scratch.
Before a planning commission or city council hearing, use Comments to run a pre-presentation review internally: ask your project architect and consultant leads to annotate specific frames where technical accuracy is on the line, and resolve those threads before the public meeting.
For clients new to the design process (school boards, first-time developers), set the board's Default View to your Slides Format and lock it so they open directly to the deck - they won't accidentally land in the middle of your working canvas and mistake in-progress sketches for final design intent.
The entire concept is great. Its convenient as a web based technology, its collaborative for internal teams as well as sharing content externally, It has nice features like layers, ability to remove backgrounds, templates. Really great for presentations and the ability to receive live feedback in various ways like polls.
Verified User in Architecture & Planning
One place to shop, can create slides and pdf directly from it. Can invite my clients into it for live feedback
Verified User in Architecture & Planning
The biggest trap for firm principals is cramming a Revit plan, a consultant coordination drawing, and a material palette into a single frame, then wondering why the planning commission looks glazed over. Treat each frame like a pinned moment in your design narrative, one clear idea per slide, whether you're walking a developer CFO through square footage implications or a school board through code compliance. And before you default to exporting into PowerPoint, check whether you can present directly from the board itself. Recreating content in a separate tool costs hours you don't have before a city council vote.
Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint let firm principals export polished deliverables for clients who expect a traditional file, while Zoom and Microsoft Teams keep remote design reviews running without switching apps mid-presentation. For larger practices managing multiple project phases across consultant teams, Confluence connects meeting documentation to the boards where the actual design decisions live.
Use this when you're pulling together a schematic design presentation from material scattered across Revit exports, Enscape fly-throughs, and InDesign layouts, and you need a single coherent deck without everything falling apart at the wrong resolution. Picture a principal assembling a design development sign-off presentation the day before the contractor pricing window closes: drag your renders and plan-section relationships into Frames, use AI slide generation to build the executive summary, and share a Talktrack recording so the developer's CFO can review it on their own schedule without losing the narrative thread.
Architecture practices handling municipal planning submissions, public-sector capital projects, or confidential developer pro formas need to know that Miro is SOC 2 Type II certified and supports granular sharing permissions so a curated slide sequence reaches the right stakeholders without exposing the full working board. Larger firms operating across offices or jurisdictions can lean on data residency controls to meet regional compliance requirements. Private Mode keeps sensitive fee discussions or equity partner reviews contained during live presentations.
Last updated: Thursday, July 30, 2026
