Mural is a visual collaboration tool that allows teams to work together on digital whiteboards called "murals". Murals provide a space to brainstorm, plan projects, map out designs and more. Mural supports remote collaboration in real-time or asynchronously. The document provides best practices for using Mural such as working visually, maintaining collaboration momentum, and going digital from the start.

1. BEST PRACTICES & USE CASES
Make Remote Creative Collaboration Work:
Advanced Webinar Series with MURAL

2. 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?

3. 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.

4. 1. BEST PRACTICES

5. 1. Know your scale
2. Keep it together
3. Work visually
4. Maintain momentum
5. Go digital first
BEST PRACTICES

6. 1. KNOW YOUR SCALE
MURAL 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

7. 2. KEEP IT TOGETHER
MURAL 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

8. Complete multiple steps all in one place

9. 3. WORK VISUALLY
MURAL 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

10. Include images, lines, arrows, icons, etc. for a rich visualizations of work

11. 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

12. 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 sessions
2. Transcribe as you go
3. Have everyone contribute directly in MURAL

13. 5. GO DIGITAL FIRST
Get to digital formats quickly, or just work digitally from the beginning!

14. 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