mental models

Quick Retrospective Template

A retrospective template empowers you to run insightful meetings, take stock of your work, and iterate effectively. The term “retrospective” has gained popularity over the more common “debriefing” and “post-mortem,” since it’s more value-neutral than the other terms. Some teams refer to these meetings as “sprint retrospectives” or “iteration retrospectives,” “agile retrospectives” or “iteration retrospectives.” Whether you are a scrum team, using the agile methodology, or doing a specific type of retrospective (e.g. a mad, sad, glad retrospective), the goals are generally the same: discovering what went well, identifying the root cause of problems you had, and finding ways to do better in the next iteration.

RICE Prioritization Template

Juggling competing priorities while trying to maximize impact? The RICE prioritization framework helps product teams, marketers, and project managers make objective decisions about what to build, launch, or tackle next. Our ready-to-use template combines RICE scoring with Miro's Tables feature, so you can evaluate ideas, gather context, and align stakeholders—all in one visual workspace that keeps everyone on the same page.

Portfolio Presentation Template

Display your work in an engaging and visually-appealing format with Miro’s Portfolio Presentation Template. Exhibit your best work and help your audience visualize your designs.

Sitemap Template

Building a website is a complex task. Numerous stakeholders come together to create pages, write content, design elements, and build a website architecture that serves a target audience. A sitemap is an effective tool for simplifying the website design process. It allows you to take stock of the content and design elements you plan to include on your site. By visualizing your site, you can structure and build each component in a way that makes sense for your audience.

UML Component Diagram Template

Use our Component Diagram template to show how a system’s physical components are organized and wired together. Visualize implementation details, make sure planned development matches system needs, and more — all in a collaborative environment.

Pitch Deck Template

Stand out and leave a lasting impression with the Pitch Deck Template. Make people care about your idea and gain supporters everywhere.

Design Research Template

A design research map is a grid framework showing the relationship between two key intersections in research methodologies: mindset and approach. Design research maps encourage your team or clients to develop new business strategies using generative design thinking. Originally designed by academic Liz Sanders, the framework is meant to resolve confusion or overlap between research and design methods. Whether your team is in problem-solving or problem space definition mode, using a research design template can help you consider the collective value of many unrelated practices.

GANTT Chart Template

A Gantt chart timeline template transforms scattered project tasks into a visual roadmap where deadlines, dependencies, and progress become instantly clear. Built with Miro's Timeline format, this template automatically organizes your project phases while enabling real-time collaboration across your entire team. Whether you're launching a product, managing a campaign, or coordinating cross-functional initiatives, this ready-to-use template adapts to any project scope and keeps stakeholders aligned from kickoff to completion.

User Persona Template

A user persona is a tool for representing and summarizing a target audience for your product or service that you have researched or observed. Whether you’re in content marketing, product marketing, design, or sales, you operate with a target in mind. Maybe it’s your customer or prospect. Maybe it’s someone who will benefit from your product or service. Usually, it’s a whole collection of personalities and needs that intersect in interesting ways. By distilling your knowledge about a user, you create a model for the person you hope to target: this is a persona.

On-Call Incident Log Template

Are critical system outages turning your team into firefighters scrambling through Slack threads, email chains, and hastily scribbled notes? When incidents strike, the last thing you need is hunting through scattered logs while your users wait for answers. Without a centralized way to track incident details, response times, and root causes, even your best engineering teams struggle to spot the patterns that could prevent future outages. This disconnect between incident response and learning means you're likely repeating the same mistakes, missing early warning signs, and burning out your on-call engineers. But there's a better way to handle the inevitable chaos of system incidents.

Research Synthesis/Summary

A research synthesis template is a structured framework that helps UX researchers and product teams organize, analyze, and distill user research findings into meaningful patterns and actionable recommendations. Instead of letting valuable insights get buried in interview transcripts, usability testing notes, and survey data, this template creates a visual workspace for identifying key themes, prioritizing user needs, and aligning cross-functional teams on what users actually need. Use this template to transform raw user research into strategic product direction that moves your roadmap forward.

User Flow Template

User flows are diagrams that help UX and product teams map out the logical path a user should take when interacting with a system. As a visual tool, the user flow shows the relationship between a website or app’s functionality, potential actions a user could take, and the outcome of what the user decides to do. User flows help you understand what a user does to finish a task or complete a goal through your product or experience.