Mental Model Template

Develop understanding and innovation together with your team.

About the Mental Model Template

What is a mental model

Mental model is an intuitive understanding of a system based on past experiences, observations, and logic. It guides the design of solutions and helps companies and its teams make good user and business decisions by focusing on what customers or users actually need.

The benefits of mental modeling

There are many benefits to creating your own mental model with your team. Here are a few reasons to try it:

Confidence in your design. Creating a mental model gives you and your team a solid foundation of research on which to base your design decisions.
Winning customer attention and loyalty. Building a mental model helps you examine the whole user experience, which will enable you to choose the best design decisions.
Building a strategic roadmap. Keeping informed about your customers' needs develops your competitive advantage and keeps you focused on delivering greater value to your customers.

Create your own mental model

Doing a mental model exercise with your team is easy using Miro's Mental Model Template. Simply open this template to start customizing it:

Fill-out a ready-made, flexible template to save you time.
Add sticky notes, shapes, and arrows to create a powerful map.
Prototype on infinite whiteboard, discuss and share your ideas online using chat, video, and comments features.
Provide your teammates with real-time access to collaborate from any devices, at anytime.