Canvas Playground Template
Explore how AI creation, Sidekicks, and intelligent widgets can speed up work and engage teams.
About the Canvas Playground Template
The canvas playground template is the ultimate way to explore all the features that make up Miro's Intelligent Canvas. This dynamic and interactive space is designed to help you get work done faster while engaging your team. From AI creation and Sidekicks to intelligent widgets, this template allows you to try it all and discover how these capabilities can streamline your workflow and enhance collaboration.
How to use the canvas playground template
The canvas playground template is structured into several key sections, each designed to showcase different features of Miro's Intelligent Canvas:
Intelligent widgets
The intelligent widgets section includes several tools designed to enhance collaboration and decision-making:
Poll widget: This widget allows you to create and embed survey questions directly onto your boards. You can enter your survey question and answer options, then start the poll to enable voting. Once the poll is complete, results will be displayed on the board.
Dot vote widget: This widget facilitates voting during meetings. Team members can drag and drop dots onto sticky notes or cards to cast their votes. The dots will move with the objects they are attached to, making it easy to rearrange without losing votes.
Story point widget: Ideal for sprint planning, this widget lets team members vote on story points for tasks or projects. Similar to the dot vote widget, story points can be dragged and dropped onto cards or sticky notes, and they will update the relevant fields automatically.
People widget: This widget helps you add team members to objects on your canvas. You can drag a team member's avatar onto a task or card to assign it to them. The widget shows logged-in users who are active on the board and allows you to search for and pin anyone in your organization.
Timeline widget: This widget enables you to create detailed project timelines. You can add tasks, set deadlines, and visualize the project flow, helping you keep track of progress and deadlines.
AI Sidekicks
AI Sidekicks are AI companions designed to assist with various tasks on the canvas. They can provide expert advice, generate next steps or to-do lists, and offer feedback on content clarity and conciseness. AI Sidekicks can be invoked from a button in a template and will appear on the board as participants, completing predefined jobs like adding comments or writing documents.
Create with AI
The "Create with AI" section allows you to leverage AI-powered tools to generate content, organize ideas, and automate tasks. You can use AI to synthesize data from workshops, perform market research analysis, and generate summaries of user research or competitive analysis. This section is designed to enhance productivity and creativity by automating repetitive tasks and providing intelligent suggestions.
Intelligent Templates
Intelligent Templates are custom, interactive workflows powered by AI, interactive tools, and integrations. These templates can be tailored to fit specific project needs and help streamline processes. They incorporate AI assistance, agents, and actions on the canvas to automate workflows, incorporate insights, and turn ideas into artifacts, visuals
Why use the canvas playground template
The canvas playground template offers many advantages and benefits for users:
Improved productivity: The AI-powered tools and interactive widgets automate repetitive tasks and provide intelligent suggestions, allowing you to focus on high-value activities.
Boost collaboration: The template’s interactive features make it easy for team members to contribute and engage, fostering a more collaborative environment.
Customizable workflows: Tailor the template to fit your specific needs by adding or modifying sections and widgets. This flexibility ensures that the template can adapt to various projects and workflows.
Seamless integration: Connect with other tools and import data to create a unified workspace. This integration helps maintain consistency and reduces the need for switching between different platforms.
Versatility: Suitable for a wide range of use cases, from agile project management to creative brainstorming sessions, making it a valuable tool for any team.
Real time feedback: Collect and analyze feedback using embedded forms and comment sections, helping you iterate on your ideas and improve your projects based on team input.
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Timeline Workflow
Works best for:
Project Management, Flowcharts, Operations
A timeline is a visual tool that chronologically plots out projects step by step. It’s an ideal tool for your team to tell stories (such as an overview of events in your organization) and visualize your projects or processes. The Timeline Workflow template is perfect for any project that relies on visual content. You may find it beneficial to use with your team and also to share with other stakeholders or clients to keep them in the loop on your progress.
Start, Stop, Continue Template
Works best for:
Retrospectives, Meetings, Workshops
Giving and receiving feedback can be challenging and intimidating. It’s hard to look back over a quarter or even a week and parse a set of decisions into “positive” and “negative.” The Start Stop Continue framework was created to make it easier to reflect on your team’s recent experiences. The Start Stop Continue template encourages teams to look at specific actions they should start doing, stop doing, and continue doing. Together, collaborators agree on the most important steps to be more productive and successful.
Midnight Sailboat Retrospective
Works best for:
Retrospectives, Meetings, Agile Methodology
The Midnight Sailboat Retrospective template offers a metaphorical journey through past experiences and future aspirations, likening the retrospective process to a midnight sailboat voyage. It provides elements for reflecting on challenges faced, lessons learned, and goals for the future. This template enables teams to navigate uncertainties, chart a course for success, and foster a culture of resilience. By promoting reflection and metaphorical thinking, the Midnight Sailboat Retrospective empowers teams to overcome obstacles, embrace change, and sail towards their goals effectively.
Event Brief Template
Works best for:
Meetings, Workshops, Project Planning
For most any organization, throwing a big deal event is…a big deal. An event can bring in publicity, new clients, and revenue. And planning it can require a substantial chunk of your overall resources. That’s why you’ll want to approach it like a high-stakes project, with clearly outlined goals, stakeholders, timelines, and budget. An event brief combines all of that information in a single source of truth that guides the events team, coordinator, or agency—and ensures the event is well-planned and well-executed.
Project Retrospective
Works best for:
Retrospectives, Agile Methodology
The Project Retrospective template offers a structured approach for teams to review project performance and identify areas for enhancement. It provides elements for reflecting on project goals, milestones, successes, and challenges. This template enables teams to evaluate project outcomes, learn from experiences, and implement process improvements. By promoting reflection and accountability, the Project Retrospective empowers teams to optimize project delivery and drive continuous improvement effectively.
Agile Transition Plan Template
Works best for:
Agile Methodology, Agile Workflows
An Agile transformation roadmap can help you, your team, and your organization transition from rigid compliance-heavy methods to the more flexible Agile way of doing things incrementally. From requirements to integrations to security, you can map out your organization's moving parts as “swim lanes” that you can then update regularly. Use your roadmap as a way to tell the story of how you see your product growing over a period of time. Get buy-in without overselling and keep your roadmap simple, viable and measurable. By using an Agile transformation roadmap, you can avoid getting bogged down in details and instead invest in big-picture strategic thinking.