How to Structure Design Thinking Workshops with Miro

In today’s business world, generating innovative ideas, solving complex problems, and guiding teams with a creative perspective has become more critical than ever. At this point, the Design Thinking approach helps teams transform their business processes by building empathy, developing rapid prototypes, and producing user-centered solutions.

So how can you make this process more efficient, accessible, and open to collaboration? This is where Miro comes into play. As a visual collaboration platform, Miro offers powerful tools that facilitate Design Thinking workshops. However, to get maximum efficiency from these tools, Omtera’s expert consulting makes a critical difference.

The Intersection of Design Thinking and Miro

Design Thinking consists of five core stages:

• Empathize
• Define the problem
• Ideation
• Prototype
• Test

Miro makes it easy to visualize each of these steps, share them with teams, and collaborate in real time. For example:

• In the empathize stage, you can create customer journey maps and collect user research with digital sticky notes.
• In the ideation stage, you can write unlimited ideas on the whiteboard and highlight the strongest ones with the voting feature.
• In the prototyping stage, you can discuss product design as a team using wireframes and flowcharts.

In short, thanks to Miro, Design Thinking goes beyond being just a methodology and becomes a dynamic collaboration process that can be integrated into teams’ daily workflows.

Use Cases of Miro in Design Thinking Workshops

1. Empathize

• Transfer your user research to Miro and visualize it with a customer journey map.
• Mark users’ pain points.
• Create a shared understanding among stakeholders.

2. Define the Problem

• To develop a common problem statement within the team, you can group HMW (How Might We) questions on Miro.
• Bring common ideas together.
• Easily eliminate unnecessary repetitions.

3. Ideation

• With Miro’s infinite canvas feature, you can collect unlimited ideas and choose the strongest ones with dot voting.
• Run a sticky-note brainstorm.
• Prioritize ideas using the voting feature.

4. Prototyping

• Visualize your ideas using wireframe, flowchart, and mock-up templates.
• Develop quick prototypes.
• Get in-team feedback.

5. Testing

• Manage the testing process with surveys, comments, and annotations on the Miro board.
• Collect user feedback on a single screen.
• Identify areas for improvement.

The Advantages Miro Brings to Workshops

1. Time Savings
The physical sticky notes, boards, and printouts used in traditional workshops cause significant time loss both in preparation and in transferring outputs to digital environments. Thanks to Miro:

• Ideas are collected directly in digital form.
• There is no need to transfer outputs to the computer afterward.
• Reports, visualizations, and summaries can be obtained with one click after the workshop.

This means a much faster and more efficient process, especially for teams with busy schedules.

2. Ease of Participation
Hybrid and remote work models are now a reality of the business world. Physical workshops are not always possible. Miro provides a major advantage here:

• Participants can work on the same board no matter where in the world they are.
• Thanks to real-time editing and commenting, everyone can be involved in the process at the same time.
• Even employees with low participation can share their ideas more comfortably in a digital environment.

Thus, equal participation and democratic idea sharing are ensured among teams.

3. Visualization
It is very important that workshop outputs are tangible and understandable. Miro allows you to easily visualize complex ideas and processes:

• You can create flowcharts, mind maps, kanban boards, and customer journey maps.
• Ideas produced by different teams can be brought together within the same visual frame.
• Complex processes become simple and understandable with diagrams.

In this way, the decisions made after the workshop are easily understood and implemented by all teams.

4. Traceability
In physical workshops, notes can get lost, or it can be difficult to create a central resource accessible to everyone. Miro completely eliminates this problem:

• All workshop outputs are stored on a single board.
• Participants can return later and review the details.
• Thanks to versioning and history features, you can see how ideas have evolved.

Thus, transparency and sustainability are ensured throughout the process.

In summary, with Miro, workshops become faster, more inclusive, more understandable, and more sustainable. This directly increases both team motivation and the quality of decisions made.

For more detailed information about workshops with the Miro Board feature, check out our blog.

Omtera: Miro Solutions Partner in Turkey

Using Miro on its own is beneficial, but with Omtera, a Miro Solutions Partner, your processes can be taken to a whole new level.

The Added Value Omtera Provides:

• Strategic Consulting: Omtera analyzes the needs of different industries and positions Miro in the most suitable way for your business.
• Training and Workshop Support: By providing tailored training to your teams, Omtera teaches how to use Miro in Design Thinking processes.
• Customized Templates: Omtera develops special Miro templates for workshops, helping you save time.
• Continuous Support: Not just setup—continuous support throughout usage.

Thanks to Omtera’s Miro consulting, you gain not just a tool but a powerful solution that will be at the center of your organization’s innovation strategy.

The Omtera Difference

One of the most common problems for organizations that want to run Design Thinking workshops is the incorrect or incomplete use of tools. This leads to inefficient processes. Omtera:

• Helps you select the methodology suitable for your teams.
• Prepares the workshop setup and templates for you in advance.
• Provides guidance to ensure outcomes are analyzed correctly.

Conclusion: Working with Omtera is not just using software; it is a strategic step that strengthens your digital collaboration culture.

Who Is It For?

• Project Managers: Facilitates the integration of workshop outputs into the project plan.
• Marketing Specialists: Can quickly develop creative campaign ideas.
• C-Level Executives: Can share strategic vision with teams.
• Team Leaders: Can increase team member participation.
• IT Managers: Manage Miro integration in digital transformation processes.

Empower Creativity with Miro and Omtera

Design Thinking is a powerful methodology that transforms the problem-solving approach not only of innovation teams but of entire organizations.

Miro digitizes this process, making it accessible, easy, and efficient for everyone. However, to unlock its true potential, Omtera’s strategic consulting is needed.

If you want to organize Design Thinking workshops with Miro in your organization and strengthen this process with professional support, you can explore Omtera’s Miro consulting services right away.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. What is Design Thinking and why is it important?
Design Thinking is a user-centric problem-solving approach. It helps businesses develop more innovative, creative, and customer-focused solutions.

2. How is a Design Thinking workshop conducted with Miro?
Thanks to Miro’s templates, whiteboard tools, sticky notes, and voting features, the workshop process can be easily structured in a digital environment.

3. What is Omtera’s role in this process?
As a Miro Solutions Partner, Omtera provides strategic consulting, training, customized templates, and continuous support to make workshops more efficient.

4. Who can benefit from Design Thinking workshops with Miro?
Project managers, marketing teams, product development departments, C-level executives, and remote teams are the groups that benefit the most from this process.

5. Are workshops conducted with Miro suitable for remote teams?
Yes. Thanks to Miro’s cloud-based structure, hybrid and remote teams can collaborate in real time simultaneously.