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Before the rollout of Miro Slides, users could already present in Miro using something called “Frames.” However, these Frames were not designed for creating slides, which resulted in countless hurdles to overcome when building and delivering a presentation.
Fundamental issues, such as presenting in the wrong order, often occurred. It became clear that if we wanted users to stay within Miro for presentations, a dedicated slides feature was essential.
"Slides" are a new structured format in Miro, which live directly on the canvas. They are wrapped in a container which allows you to re-order them across multiple lanes. A "Focus Mode" can be used to refine your slides; an editing experience that builds on the mental model people are already familiar with from established presentation tools.
Miro Slides grew from 0 WAU at launch (June 2025) to 46,9K WAU in its first 3 months (the moment this portfolio project was made) with rapid inclining growth.
This animation visualizes a potential user flow of somebody using Miro Slides. At first, the slides are shown in multiple lanes on the canvas. After that, Focus Mode opens — a dedicated editing mode to refine your slides. The last part shows how you can present these slides in a way your audience can interact with.
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When creating slides on the canvas, the visual below shows what that could look like. These slides live among other content on the board, so you can easily drag and drop elements into your slides.
As presentation tools have been around for decades, there are well-established patterns that users are familiar with. Building on top of these patterns led to Focus Mode — which is a focused view of a single slide, a slide list on the left, presenter notes, and a limited set of tools to create content on the slides. In this mode, you can easily build slides as you are used to, while being able to switch back to view the slides in the context of the canvas.
Since users have already created lots of board content, we introduced a feature to turn existing content into slides. Instead of starting your slides from scratch, you can turn any selected content into Miro Slides.
Once your slides are ready, you can present them inside Miro. This can be done with an audience that can interact with the presentation; no more boring one-way presentations! They can interact with certain widgets, add feedback to brainstorm slides, fill in polls or share live reactions. You can also record yourself and share the recording asynchronously.
To help structure your narrative, you can add presenter notes to each slide. They can be opened during presenting in a 2nd window so you'll never forget your storyline when you're on stage!
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