Our view at Stack - our team love using Miro as an online workspace for innovation, enabling distributed teams to dream, design, and build together. With a full set of collaboration capabilities, it simplifies cross-functional teamwork, meetings, and workshops. Create concepts, map user stories, and conduct roadmap planning in real-time.
With an updated canvas built to level-up your Miro experience, Intelligent Canvas is here to help teams get work done faster and more efficiently. The new Intelligent Canvas focuses on three key areas:
- A new and improved, streamlined canvas experience
- Composable workflows to help teams move faster from discovery right through to delivery
- AI-powered features to empower teams to get work done faster and more efficiently than ever before
Included as part of Intelligent Canvas are several new diagramming updates that will blow your current diagramming workflow out of the water. Think: less manual work, less hacking shapes, fewer complexities, faster creation, smoother experience.
Sounds good? Let’s get into it.
Get started quicker than ever before with Miro AI Diagramming
Come to the canvas with your idea, type it out, and Miro AI will do the rest.
Starting from scratch can be a drag, but Miro AI has your back. It whips up a quick initial draft from your text descriptions, giving you a solid base to build on. This speeds up brainstorming, boosts teamwork, and keeps your projects rolling.
Kick things off with a clear vision and let your team effortlessly collaborate and refine the diagram; whether that is a flowchart, mind map, UML sequences diagram, UML class diagram or entity relationship diagram.
With Miro AI for Diagramming, you can:
- Kick off projects faster than ever: Avoid the cold start problem! Miro AI generates an initial diagram from your written description, giving you an ideal foundation to work from.
- Create alternatives in a flash: Adapt your prompt to create various diagram options, enabling you to try new versions without the manual work.
The most efficient way of diagramming with Diagramming Mode
Create diagrams with ease, faster than ever before, with our new Diagramming Mode.
Imagine a workflow that doesn’t require you to hop between scattered tools or wrestle with a cluttered or clunky interface that slows you down. Diagramming Mode puts everything you need right where you can find it, such as layers, Miro AI for diagramming and more than 2,000 shapes and icons.
It’s like having a tidy, distraction-free workspace that revs up your productivity and makes diagramming easier.
With Diagramming Mode, you can:
- Manage and move shapes easily: An improved grid experience means creating diagrams is now simple and satisfying. Benefit from an improved grid size and a snap to grid update that provides a clear sense of control when moving shapes.
- Create diagrams, no matter your expertise: Team members of all levels can get started with their diagramming workflow with Miro’s user friendly Diagramming Mode.
Present the right level of detail with Layers
Do you want to present a specific level of detail to the right audience when it comes to your diagrams?
Are you done with wasting time showing one detail at a time, or creating new diagrams each time you want to delve deeper into the detail? Layers let you build multi-dimensional diagrams where you can easily flip between a bird’s-eye view and the nitty-gritty details all in one space.
With Layers, you can:
- Make the complex simple: Group related elements, reducing visual clutter and making complex diagrams easier to navigate.
- Eliminate the need for separate diagrams: Effortlessly switch between high-level overviews and detailed views. Flip through different options while keeping part of the diagram as a baseline.
- Edit efficiently: Work smarter by making precise tweaks without messing up the whole diagram.
Create tailored and accurate diagrams with Custom Shapes
Are you often stuck with a generic set of shapes that don’t always fit your project? Say goodbye to bland or misshapen diagrams that are never quite right, and say hello to our diagramming custom shapes.
With shapes designed just for your needs, you can accurately represent complex ideas and data, creating professional diagrams that have immediate impact.
You can upload in an SVG format with up to 100 shapes per pack. The uploaded shapes are your own personal packs, but shared custom shapes packs are coming soon!
With Custom Shapes, you can:
- Use on-brand shapes: Tailor your diagrams using the same shape packs that your company uses.
- Create diagrams efficiently: Add custom shapes to your library once and build diagrams without any additional effort.
- Communicate with impact: Visualize information more effectively and with less clutter, resulting in more professional-looking diagrams.
In short, custom shape packs help you tell your story better with professional diagrams that ensure your message hits the mark every time.
Visualize your cloud infrastructure with AWS Data Import (beta)
The AWS Data import (beta) tool is here to save you time and provide you with accurate representation of your cloud infrastructure.
This feature allows you to focus on ensuring that your architecture is optimized, secure, and scalable, rather than the manual, and very tedious, diagram creation itself.
With AWS Data Import, you can:
- Visualize your cloud infrastructure: Benefit from a simple process that provides an up-to-date data import, reflecting your actual cloud infrastructure.
- Create and update diagrams with ease: Leverage built-in diagramming tools to visualize different versions of your architecture and align on the most optimal one. Diagrams always stay up to date in a single source of truth.
- Optimize your architecture: Leverage the AWS Cost Calculator to generate price estimations and make cost effective decisions.
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Boost your diagramming workflow with Intelligent Canvas
Use Miro’s Intelligent Canvas for a smooth diagramming experience that has all the necessary tools and shapes all in one place. You can learn more about our newest Technical Diagramming features and earn the diagramming badge to prove your skills here.
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