best practices with mural
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BEST PRACTICES & USE CASES
Make Remote Creative Collaboration Work: Advanced Webinar Series with MURAL
HENRY FORD
MURAL is a visual workspace that helps you collaborate together. ‘Murals’ are giant boards to map out content.
Everything is securely saved in the cloud. Collaborate wherever you are to keep your creative momentum.
People use murals for all kinds of team activities:
○ Brainstorming ○ Planning and roadmaps○ Product and service design○ Research and journey mapping○ Teaching and presenting … and more!
WHAT IS MURAL?
HENRY FORD
COLLABORATING WITH MURAL
Teams around the world use MURAL for all kinds of creative work: from design thinking to product planning to strategy creation.
MURAL is flexible. You have a lot of control. Use it for anything you might use a whiteboard or flipchart for.
Use MURAL to collaborate creatively wherever your team is.
1. BEST PRACTICES
1. Know your scale
2. Keep it together
3. Work visually
4. Maintain momentum
5. Go digital first
BEST PRACTICES
1. KNOW YOUR SCALEMURAL is spatial. Know the scale you are working at. Keep the default sticky note, and work to that size.
Default sticky note is readable at 100% zoom level
2. KEEP IT TOGETHERMURAL is big. You can map out all kinds of content and complete multiple steps of an activity in one place.
Gather links, videos and documents in one place
Complete multiple steps all in one place
3. WORK VISUALLYMURAL is visual. Work visually to help you find new patterns and solve problems better.
In addition to text, consider:
● The color and format of the content● Physical groupings and arrangements● Including images, links and videos● Adding connectors and lines to show relationships● Using icons and stickers to enhance the content
Include images, lines, arrows, icons, etc. for a rich visualizations of work
4. MAINTAIN MOMENTUM MURAL is for collaboration. Invite your team to collaborate in real time or independently.
Voting results
Built-in chat
Broadcast cursors
Follow each other by clicking on avatar
Comment on content inline
MURAL is built for collaboration, in real time or asynchronously
Avatars of collaborators
5. GO DIGITAL FIRST MURAL is digital. Get content online fast to save time, effort and money. Rethink your process for digital.
Capture offline work in MURAL:
1. Include images from offline sessions2. Transcribe as you go3. Have everyone contribute directly in MURAL
5. GO DIGITAL FIRST
Get to digital formats quickly, or just work digitally from the beginning!
FURTHER RESOURCES
○ For more about how to use MURAL, see the quick guide on our support site: http://support.mural.ly
○ Join our live demonstrations weekly for a chance to ask questions live: http://mural.co/weeklywebinars