Easy to start, powerful to use: how Miro makes team collaboration effortless

Miro is designed with simplicity at its core — you can start collaborating in minutes, whether you're working solo or with a distributed team. The beauty of Miro lies in its intuitive interface that feels natural from the moment you open your first board.

Starting your first board

Getting started with Miro couldn't be simpler. When you log in, you'll see a clean interface that invites you to create a new board with just one click. From there, you have two paths: dive straight into a blank canvas if you're feeling creative, or explore our template library, Miroverse, of over 6,000 templates designed for every imaginable workflow.

These templates aren't just starting points — they're fully customizable frameworks that teams across industries use daily. Looking to map out a customer journey? There's a template for that. Need to run a retrospective with your development team? We've got you covered. Want to create a mind map for your next big project? It's ready and waiting.

Once you've created your board, inviting your team is as simple as clicking the blue Share button at the top right. No complicated permission settings to navigate — just share the link and your teammates can jump in immediately.

Real-time and async collaboration

One of Miro's greatest strengths is how it adapts to your team's natural working rhythm. In today's world of hybrid and remote work, not everyone can — or should — be online at the same time.

• Real-time collaboration transforms Miro into a dynamic shared workspace. Imagine designing a new feature with a product manager in New York and a designer in London. As you both work on the same board, you'll see each other's cursors moving, sticky notes appearing, and ideas taking shape simultaneously. It's the digital equivalent of sketching together on a whiteboard, but with infinite space and none of the limitations.
• Async collaboration lets teams work across time zones without friction. Perhaps your engineering team in Singapore needs to review the designs your team in San Francisco created during their workday. They can open the board, explore the work, and leave thoughtful comments — all without scheduling a meeting. When you log back in, their feedback is there waiting for you, with @-mentions ensuring you don't miss any critical discussions.

For example, a marketing team might use a Miro board to plan their quarterly campaign. The content writer adds messaging ideas in the morning, the designer reviews and adds visual concepts in the afternoon, and the marketing manager provides feedback that evening. By the next day, the board has evolved into a comprehensive campaign plan — all without a single meeting.

Interactive presentations and workshops

Miro isn't just for creating work — it's for sharing it too. The platform transforms your boards into engaging presentation experiences that keep your audience involved.

Interactive Presentation Mode lets you organize your ideas into Frames — think of them as slides, but infinitely more flexible. As you click through, you're taking your audience on a journey through your thinking. And if someone asks a question? You can zoom out to show the entire board or navigate to any section on the fly.

Live workshops take this interactivity even further. Picture hosting a design sprint where participants can:

• React in real time using emoji reactions
• Vote on ideas anonymously to avoid groupthink
• Stay on schedule with built-in timers
• Even add background music to set the mood

Talktrack offers an elegant solution for async presentations. Record a video walkthrough of your board where you explain your thinking and guide viewers through complex information. Your teammates can watch on their own schedule, leaving comments and questions along the way.

AI-powered collaboration

Miro's AI capabilities integrate directly into your shared workspace, enabling your entire team to work alongside AI simultaneously. The canvas itself becomes the AI prompt — a concept we call "Canvas as Prompt." Instead of staring at a blank text box, you simply work naturally on your board. Your sticky notes from a brainstorming session, your customer interview findings, your rough sketches, all of which become rich context that AI can understand and build upon.

Imagine your team just finished a three-hour workshop. The board is covered with sticky notes, diagrams, and raw ideas. With Miro's AI, you can transform that unstructured thinking into structured deliverables in moments:

• Generate a comprehensive product brief that synthesizes key themes
• Create a project timeline based on discussed priorities
• Build a presentation for stakeholders that captures workshop insights

The AI doesn't replace your thinking; it amplifies it, handling the tedious translation work so you can focus on refinement and decision-making. What makes Miro's AI truly different is that it's built for team collaboration from the ground up. Everyone on the board can see AI-generated content evolve and contribute their perspective in real time.

Best practices for success

Getting the most out of Miro starts with a few simple practices:

• Set clear objectives at the beginning of every project. Create a frame on your board that outlines your goals, deliverables, and deadlines — this becomes a north star that keeps everyone aligned.
• Use templates to save time and standardize processes. Rather than reinventing the wheel, find a template that matches your workflow and customize it. Over time, you'll develop your own templates that capture your team's best practices.
• Encourage feedback throughout your process. Use comments to create threaded discussions, hold voting sessions to prioritize ideas, and leverage live reactions during workshops to gauge sentiment.
• Be strategic with @-mentions when working asynchronously. Tag specific teammates when you need their input, providing context so they know exactly what you're asking.
• Leverage AI for work that doesn't require human creativity. Let AI handle repetitive structuring and formatting, so you can spend more time on creative problem-solving and strategic thinking.

Ready to get started?

Miro's intuitive design means you can bring your team together and start collaborating productively from day one. Whether you're sketching out ideas in real time with colleagues across the globe, leaving thoughtful async feedback for teammates in different time zones, or working alongside AI to accelerate your workflows, everything you need lives on your canvas.

Sign up to start collaborating in Miro and discover what our innovation workspace — now powered by AI — can do for your team. From your first sticky note to your most complex cross-functional project, Miro is built to help teams turn ideas into reality, together.

Author: Miro Team Last update: October 6, 2025