MURAL Reviews

Among the aspects and positive characteristics of Mural that I would like to highlight is its interface, it is illustrative, clear, simple and elegant, which is appreciated as it facilitates the management of the application. The murals are easily shared on the internet and can also be downloaded as images. It is easy to brainstorm collaboratively for projects, coexistence activities, tutoring discussions, and create virtual murals with compilation of class materials, videos, images, interesting links, etc. In practice, mural has a fairly nice amount of templates to use and the management of these feels comfortable and easy to use. Mural also has a space to store files such as texts, images, videos and in general files that we implement day by day in our office as Word documents that would be implemented as follow-up manuals, excel calculation sheets and power point presentations . The interaction in real time and the collaboration of team projects feels fluid and not at all cumbersome or uncomfortable at the time of use, really use Mural as a work platform represents a clear advantage in the business environment

I think that the features that I do not like about the app and that I think I dislike is the fact that I do not have a communication tool beyond the chat offered by the platform, I think if Mural gives the possibility of integrating with a Voip system or online videoconferences could improve your service noticeably. Beyond that I have nothing more to highlight.

A great tool for collaboration in work groups, I recommend it sincerely

Using Mural in my business environment has been an excellent decision, my colleagues and I are very pleased to have implemented Mural.

Mural is super flexible. You can plan and organize pretty much any project. I love that you can easily insert photos, videos, and even audio.

I recently started using it as a classroom tool. I present my Mural instead of a PowerPoint deck and my students can contribute to it in real time. It's super dynamic. In fact, I haven't used PowerPoint or Prezi since I started using Mural in August.

When more than 5 or 6 people are in a mural, it can get pretty hectic, but you can control this by making different "zones" of a Mural for each person/team.

I would like to be able to move and edit a Mural while a youtube video is playing, but I think this is a limitation caused by YouTube's API.

Planning complex performance improvement projects that include data inputs from many different sources and many different stakeholders, some of whom contribute to/update the Mural and some of whom just view it as it grows.

Gets everyone in the same "room" whether you're in the office or working remotely. Much more efficient than working with a physical whiteboard and sticky notes. Allows easy sharing of work sessions with others, and preserves an archive to be able to organize your work better across projects and teams. I use the tool for making rapid prototypes (software design). The limited set of styles is advantageous when working in this capacity. We've even taken prototypes into user testing directly inside MURAL since it's so easy to share and allows participants to get involved.

There's a slight learning curve for new users. We generally onboard new users before a work session to get them familiar with working within MURAL so they are more comfortable with the basics. Performance has improved greatly since the early versions of the product. There are still hiccups sometimes, but they are manageable. There are a few nitpicky items such as writing over other peoples notes when there are several people in the room actively working, but these don't deter us from using the product.

Spend some time reviewing the available features before jumping in and learning on your own. There are several features that might appear "hidden" to some and could really help you and your team along the way.

Huge time saver and costs savings by allowing real-time collaboration that doesn't require anyone to travel to a physical location. Allows us to apply known/proven frameworks as templates to quickly stand-up working sessions for user research and synthesis of discussions across departments and teams.

There are so many things I love about MURAL...a few of them are:

- ability to for a board to become as big as I need it to be. Not constrained by dimensions.

- allows for non-linear as well as linear "presentations"

- keeps me from having to use "slides" to organize and present ideas.

- truly collaborative. Allows many of us to look at one mural board at one time and/or go in an edit simultaneously.

- easy to share with others--whether just one board or a whole room.

- not limited re: what I can put on a mural. Allows me to mix text with imagery w/screenshots with diagrams w/icons and shapes. Import images. Copy and paste urls that then turn into thumbnails. I often hyperlink screenshots of other content repositories so that users can quickly access more in-depth materials. ("other" could be another mural board or some other application).

Please note the opinions expressed here are my own and are not meant to represent those of any organization.

my iPhone screen size. if it were bigger, I would no doubt use Mural more often from my smart phone.

Give it a try--I honestly can't imagine going back to working in my "pre-MURAL" days.

1) communicate more effectively, especially newer concepts, because you can customize degree of detail in demonstrating business case to various audiences using the same mural board.

2) provide easy access to our Sprint Demos, which we all do on MURAL boards.

3) capture concepts and ideas and know where to go back and find them.

- The ability to collaborate in real-time, with names of people following their mouse cursor. Insanely great.

- Templates to structure online collaboration: allows online collaboration to be faster than when people are in the room!

- The ability to easily search and import pictures, icons, etc from the web

- A prezi-like presentation mode

- Difficult to re-use all the work in PowerPoint: export is only in PNG, text and PDF (workaround: get Acrobat Pro and export PDF to PowerPoint)

- Export is made through download links sent via e-mail, which is cumbersome

If you are in the design business, are serious about getting remote team members contribute with their ideas, and are looking for an online brainstorming tool that is easy-to-use, easy to deploy and administer, then Mural is definitely a tool to consider. Teams may be very productive and online brainstorming may even be pleasurable with this kind of tool.

We managed to involve remote teams through the steps of design thinking. Without this kind of tool, this would not even be under consideration.

We have now a permanent place online to store brainstorm productions and be able to work incrementally over time. Whiteboards get erased; teams appreciate this permanent place.

The simplicity of user interface is refreshing. I actually like it more than traditional whiteboards and sticky notes because, 1. my handwriting is that of a 'doctors' at best, and 2. the speed of unpacking ideas and arranging them on the board. 3. that the valuable ideas and concepts laid out are protected from loss on the cloud servers, not on the device.

At this point, I have no hard complaints or critiques. If being nit picky, I would ask for more arrow styles; but speed may be a limiting factor in this. Also, add other biz canvas's to list, specifically the Flourish canvas. The only other thing I think would be helpful would be if there was a way to do a split screen slider between a google doc/sheet/slide page(s) for faster work and even cross platform point/tagging. Another possible addition will be the ability to paste a youtube link, to embed a video. Maybe this is already possible. Lastly, it seems like I am unable to edit on mobile android device(Huawei p20).

Enjoy the process.

As a visual creator, MURAL has been perfect for unpacking and logging my rather wordy concepts, plans and designs, in an easy to understand way to complement the denser technical white papers. It also helps me draw new connections and discover solutions. For someone who is new to the world of story mapping, business planning, user flows, project planning, etc, MURAL makes it easy to adopt these tools.

I love the integration with Post-It Plus. It's super easy to get real-life post it notes into MURAL without typing everything up. Just take a picture and it's uploaded. I also love how easy it is to collaborate virtually, even with people who don't have a MURAL login.

I wish that MURAL included simple flowchart tools like the ones in Draw.io. For example, I want to easily create flow arrows between things, and the current arrow doesn't have the same smart snap/angle like Draw.io.

I have used MURAL to: independently conduct analysis during an alpha launch for a product, facilitate a remote retrospective with a distributed design team, facilitate a remote subject-matter expert workshop about the gaps/pain points of the current state of an experience, create a customer journey map, record an Impact/Difficulty matrix from a LUMA session using the template, and record and analyze post it notes made during a live in-person stakeholder workshop. All of that is just in the last 3 months!

I use mural to organize and convey concepts on a global team. When key ideas risk getting lost in translation, I depend on MURAL to help align my co-workers and allow people to contribute to a project. I also love that MURAL is flexible - I have used the tool to organize events, create project plans, and host virtual workshops.

Their team also hosts fantastic webinars to make sure you get the most value from the tool. I've been inspired to use the tool in new ways.

There's a learning curve to using the tool, so you do need to introduce people to MURAL and get them comfortable before diving in with a team or group.

Read the "getting started" guides to make the most of the tool and get some tips about virtual collaboration.

Virtual collaboration - saving money on travel and still being able to have contribution among team members. Visual communication helps reduce confusion and align the team.

Me gusta que no haya restricciones en cuanto a la distribución de los objetos que vamos añadiendo. También me gusta que el mural se va guardando automáticamente a medida que lo modifiquemos, y podemos invitar a otros usuarios para así trabajar en grupo. Lo que más me gusta es que todo se cifra para preservar la privacidad. Otra ventaja es que tenemos la posibilidad de descargarnos una copia de seguridad de las pizarras en formato ZIP para poder restaurarla por si elimino las pizarras por error o hago cambios no deseables.

Mural nos deja mantener dos de estos murales virtuales con hasta cincuenta colaboradores de forma gratuita, aunque hay planes de pago a partir de 12 euros mensuales que nos dejan gestionar de 20 a infinitas pizarras según nuestras necesidades, por lo que ofrece es un precio un poco caro. También deberían añadir una demo para poder saber utilizar Mural porque al principio puede ser un poco confuso porque la aplicación es muy poco intuitiva. También suele ir un poco lenta la aplicación en dispositivos antiguos, esto sobretodo ocurre al añadir nuevos elementos y al modificarlos. Por todo lo demás es una aplicación muy completa y útil que no me ha dado ningún fallo.

Es una de las mejores herramientas que puedes utilizar. No necesitas descargar ningún software sólo necesitas utilizar un navegador web con conexión a Internet. Lo puedes utilizar en todos tus dispositivos incluso lo puedes utilizar en los dispositivos móviles utilizando su app. Además puedes utilizar el periodo gratuito que ofrecen para saber si cubre tus necesidades este programa !!!

Mural es una herramienta ideal para trabajar con mis compañeros y plantear proyectos colaborativos donde todos puedan participar y aportar sus ideas. Puede ser de gran utilidad tanto a la hora de organizar los equipos, como a la hora de presentar los trabajos. Algunos proyectos que puedes llevar a cabo son biografías ilustradas de escritores o personajes históricos, herbarios digitales, guiones de cortometrajes u obras de teatro de nueva creación. Ya sea para organizar un proyecto entero o para hacer un simple brainstorming, esta puede ser una herramienta a considerar.

I love the mood board layout. I utilize it to create different videos for our website. By being able to place photos into specific categories, I can create videos for certain purposes (holidays, recent events, introductory vids,etc).

It would be great if I could take the mood board layouts and then turn them into videos. But just having the ability to create layouts before I turn them into videos is helpful

This is a fantastic tool! So many uses for any business! I'm still learning what it has to offer each day! I highly recommend using this tool!

It has made making videos for our website much smoother and they look even better! It is helpful to have the ability to layout all photos before creating a video.

I can also share current projects with other users and they can add to it or change it, that is very helpful. There has been a lot less "I'll send you those pics" because they can just quickly and easily add it to the layout/project.

I like that MURAL allows to unify the work team and entrust a specific role to each member of the team, in this way all contribute equally to the project in process. The use of templates for each project or occasion makes the whole process much more creative and unique. The advantage of adhesive notes that update automatically is unbreakable, it is a fantastic tool; all this contributes to have a fast software, easy to use and configure, besides being true and efficient in all its functions.

At the beginning it can be a bit complicated to understand, it is necessary for an introductory demo in this way when starting to use the software you can start using it almost instantaneously with all the basic knowledge. The rest has worked magnificently and without problems.

If you need to join your work team and integrate them to do a better job, I recommend that you use MURAL and that you exploit all the creative and professional potential of each member of your work group.

Facilitates communication and teamwork, allows the progress of projects and the integration of all in a simple way in which each member joins to contribute their own ideas. So we move faster at work and everything becomes much simpler.

The simplicity of use, combined with the templates make it so easy to get started. The ability to scale the canvas is great. Really like the integrations with Slack and with Teams, really helps with collaboration with remote team members. Creating your own templates for your own workflows is a real, productivity booster for your team and your peers.

Would like to see improvements to the lines and arrows that allows them to work better as connectors, would like to see different types of connectors e.g. elbow connectors.Would like to see the ability to use prebuilt components from the templates to speed up building templates for your team to use.

Use the templates they are a great starting point and you can combine them to create new ones for your team. Creating your own templates for your own workflows is a real, productivity booster for your team and your peers. Using the integrations with Slack and Teams are a real boon to collaboration. Mural is super easy to use for everyone in your team.

Remote collaboration, video storyboards, Service Design blueprints, Voice user interface flows, Scripts for videos, remote brainstorming sessions with team members, remote workshops, Sprint reviews.

It's been great to do work with remote teams from user research to actual design. In fact, I have used this platform to do event design right through to planning content strategy. I appreciate that the platform is simple and intuitive to use and their continuous work to showcase methods and interview industry professionals is opens the doors to even more opportunities.

Adding new users to a project means extra $ - the process of inviting people can be confusing. HOWEVER - I have worked around it by using anonymous sharing which can also be password protected.

User Experience, User Research, Event Design, Content Planning, Business Modeling (more to come).

I like that I can mind-map just about anything- quarterly work plans, systems frameworks, the design of new courses, etc.- and show them to colleagues and they get it. It is a great tool to re-work anything online with a group and print out a record of what was generated in the session. Another perk is I always get to look impressive and consistently hear "wow, what program is this?".

I want the double-click to be programmable (text note vs. sticky). I want to program my own shortcuts or have more to choose from. I want to be able to sketch a closed polygon, like a diamond for instance, and hold down shift to make the line straight, and be able to fill it in with a color (a very particular request I know). Maybe these capabilities are already there and I just haven't dug down far enough to find out.

Open a blank Mural and just play around or go directly to Templates and make one your own. You can find tutorials but chances are you won't need them, there isn't a steep learning curve.

The groups I work with have been able to find creative solutions to complex problems through diagramming and imaging (adding images) vs. just text alone or using other static tools. Because it is an online tool I don't have to have a large conference room, a huge whiteboard and get everyone lunch. Though I actually do advocate for breaking bread together and being in each others' physical presence, sometimes schedules and distances don't always allow for this.

Mural is an awesome tool for facilitating group brainstorming sessions. The simple process of getting everyone into the board via a url makes setup and introduction to the tool effortless. I also find that this helps colleagues who may be a bit reluctant at first at trying out a new tool to jump in and start contributing their thoughts and ideas.

On the other hand I wish that the plans for inviting guests or teammates to different mural boards were a bit more generous for users with individual accounts.

Mural is an amazing tool for collaborating and planning. I would recommend giving the trial version a try with your team. I'm sure you won't look back once you get used to it.

Mural allows me to make meetings and brainstorming sessions much more engaging (especially with remote team members) since everyone can jump in rather quickly and contribute via a share link. It drives a completely different team dynamic when I've used it effectively and makes meetings actually feel as though we're making progress towards our goals and initiatives.

It works, with extremely little learning curve for even the most non-digital native user.

Admin console can be made a little more clear for access and usability

Take some time to get used to and familiar with the features. There are some powerful tools to use during work sessions and can make a client/team work session move more smoothly.

With clients and team members spread across the country, this is the closest thing to working side by side. Great way to visualize the entirety of a project. This is extremely helpful for production team and the clients. as It shows the work in a better quantifiable way rather than a spreadsheet or other traditional reporting conventions.

I am a digital designer and it's my favorite visual collaboration tool, been using it since 2013 or so. I have been a paid user before, now I only use free because lately my tasks do not need the pro features, but would gladly pay for it again.

My favorite aspect is being able to create a very complex mural with lots of imagens or moodboard and share with anyone with just a simple link. It's much easier than creating an image on photoshop or etc, which could not be edited collaboratively. Also, it's a great way to have everyone in your team have access to it. Photoshop or other image files require photoshop installed which not everyone on the team has, and being a link on the browser makes it always accessible.

I personally love it and use it for personal projects or for but some people have problems with it getting heavy when there are many images. Also, it would be nice to integrate it more seamlessly with other tools so coworkers would get into it easily.

it is been around for a long time and has a LOT of templates. Probably one of them is more or less what you are looking for.

Visual collaboration. Great for brainstorming and for communicating visual concepts in a remote team.

We create interactive products with narrative and lots of visual design. Murally is a great way to brainstorm, moodboard, define concepts going forward, etc.

Faster than a physical whiteboard with Post-it notes.

Import of physical Post-it notes from Post-it Plus app to Mural is a lifesaver! Much more convenient when you leave the physical meeting space.

Challenging to keep everyone focused when there is a mixture of on-site and remote individuals. Everyone needs a device to participate in the Mural and active window recognition could help us understand who is really participating.

It would be REALLY nice to be able to send a link that would allow a visitor (no license) real-time view-only access to a Mural. It would also be great to have settings that would allow you to lock visitor view or allow them to explore without moving or creating objects.

Based on how we are using Mural, it has been helpful to have the full support of a team before signing up a single user. Full support is everyone committed to trying Mural for a period of time. The power of Mural is in the real-time collaboration.

I do not use the draw feature often, but it is available.

Some of our Software Engineers wish it was easier to create a wireframe.

We have used Mural for remote retrospectives, user story mapping, backlog refinement, and other community meetings. The simultaneous user collaboration if phenomenal.

Mural has been best utilized by teams that have all remote members and any team that would like to capture their ideas to move from place to place.

We often use the Post-it Plus app to capture an image of all Post-it notes when everyone is in an on-site meeting. We then import all Post-it notes into Mural to organize and record the outcomes of the session.

Many teams are now managing their higher level backlog using Mural and lower level backlog in TFS.

The ability to import images and use software like the Post-It Plus made MURAL the perfect platform for remote and in-person teams to share answers and collaborate. We used the Post-It Plus app to take all of the answers from the physical attendees and post them on the MURAL board. We displayed the MURAL board on a TV so all teams could view each other’s answers and discuss their findings.

There were a few bugs when zooming, causing the mini-map on the bottom right to disappear. Using Cmd – or + on Mac worked most of the time, but it caused issues here and there. Board exports are sent as a link in an email when it would be easier to download directly to your computer.

Look into Post-it Plus or MURAL Scan as a great way to integrate physical post-its with the digital ones.

Our UX team needed to conduct workshops with our stakeholders, and was required to accommodate remote participants. MURAL allowed both in-person and remote teams to share answers and collaborate effectively. Keeping remote participants engaged is a challenge, and MURAL made it possible.

The flexibility of the tool is unlike any other; it's seamless at doing whatever you want it to do! I love that we can adapt all kinds of frameworks for remote meetings amongst our distributed workforce and still feel like we are all in the same room.

It can be difficult sometimes to onboard new users into MURAL and get them familiar with the toolset. I also wish that the alignment guides worked better sometimes.

Just explore all of the ways that you can use it upfront. Again, it's an EXTREMELY flexible tool, so it has a ton of power for literally every corner of your business, but it's kind of up to you to figure out how you can best maximize its value. I would encourage everyone to start off with just playing with the tool at first, and make sure that you give others a chance to play around with it BEFORE you actually have a meeting or anything, so as to reduce technical hiccups and discomfort.

We are using MURAL across the board, from the Executive level down to entry level employees for anything from facilitating strategic vision meetings, to interdisciplinary collaboration workshops, to moderated user research and design brainstorming. MURAL makes it possible for our distributed workforce to collaborate effectively with one another across the country, saving hugely on travel and logistical costs for in-person meetings.

My team and I regularly design and lead design thinking workshops and design sprints. This tool as allowed us to offer these to teams who cannot travel to one physical location. We've recreated the "whiteboard in a conference room" effect. My favorite feature is the voting tools - it's allowed us to help teams make lighting fast decisions that would actually take longer in person.

The sketching with apple pencil and iPad pro is not quite there yet, but improving.

Have an actual project you can test it out against and if you don't know where to begin, just try to recreate everything you would do if you and the team were in the same conference room.

redesigning the intake process for an operations team, designing a live online chat experience, redesigning the recruiting experience, redesigning an audit team's processes, redesigning the processes for sharing data insights, building an online knowledge sharing community and many more...

We engage at different stages of projects. Depending on the situation, we have helped teams understand their business and user problems, ideate solutions against known problems or test and validate solutions.

I like the simplicity with which I can create beautiful presentations with built-in pictograms and a nice library of useful templates for prototyping or even note taking. Also the collaborative functions are awesome: working on something within a group is very easy and the experience is fun!

The guides are very useful and that format is perfect for me, cause I can go to as many details as I want and can skip what I don´t need working with at my comfortable pace.

I think there can be improvements on the webinars that Mural is giving, because sometimes I found them a bit dissatisfying - there were some questions left unanswered before the time ran out.

I am doing presentations for the project results, guides for education purposes and use Mural as collaboration tool among the colleagues for visual storytelling.

Mural is great at keeping knowledge and allowing many people to be able to collaborate on and/or consume the information.

Mural is not a fun tool to use when trying to create process flows. I rather use other tools, then pull in a screenshot of the flow, which is suboptimal, because others can no longer truly collaborate on the flow.

I also dislike the way the Microsoft Surface app works with the pen. If I want to write on the surface, I have to put my hand down, but it moves the board around before I can make the first mark. It's very disorienting. AWESOME idea and would LOVE to use it for real, but have not been able to make it work yet.

Collaboration, especially with remote teams or even co-located teams. Single visual location of information radiators and collaborated documents.

I’m a big fan of the voting functionality which helps the team quickly prioritize or narrow down options. Another favorite is the built-in frameworks which are great accelerators when I’m building a new mural for a meeting. I love the integration with LUMA so I can easily drag and drop those templates into my MURAL.

When I use MURAL, I notice that team members are much more engaged because they have a clear role and contribution to make to the meeting rather than passively watching someone else edit content or take notes.

There is a bit of a learning curve the first time people are on it and it can be a bit clunky at times. For example, clicking into elements to edit them sometimes drops an unwanted sticky note into the mural.

I’ve prepared murals for team ice breakers when a new team is forming – each team member can add pictures and answer questions to introduce themselves in a more dynamic and memorable way. I’ve used it for brainstorming sessions where all team members simultaneously capture their point of view, quickly spotting similarities and differences.

I work with colleagues all around the globe, and the ability to collaborate with them virtually, as if we were actually around a whiteboard putting up sticky notes is fantastic. We use it for all kinds of design work, from UX to Agile roadmapping to release planning. Doing some brainstorming? Throw up a quick board to capture those ideas! Need to gain consensus? Copy the bullets out of the email and create an affinity map.

I wish there were more direct integrations with more tools, but the hooks to Github get us to where we want eventually.

Far and beyond the best online collaboration tool I've ever used.

Distributed collaboration and brainstorming. The ability for everyone in the organization to join in at the drop of a hat and actively participate is huge

Mural nails the balance of flexibility and structure for collaborating on design projects while involving people from all across the company. You can do just about anything you want in there, but you can give it form and function too. Oh, and the real-time piece.

Some people have a hard time learning how to fly around the canvas. Some people even struggle just to gain access to a shared mural. Where I feel totally natural using Mural with ease, they have a hard time getting into it because they don't know how to get around easily.

Make sure you learn how to easily pan and zoom before you try anything else.

We have teams of people from all over the world who need to work together, sometimes at the same time. Mural enables us to think together, visually and eliminates the guessing games.

MURAL really appeals to the designer in me (and was first shared with me by our design team). It’s easy to upload images, to create “post its” for tracking, and to share with others collaboratively.

Fairly slow interface; adding new elements is a bit of a pain at times, and I've had to partition some elements across multiple MURALs just for the sake of functionality. I also feel like the zoom function is a little intractable at times. I like the product from an entry-level user perspective, but feel relatively little desire to learn more abou tit.

Mostly we’ve used it to keep track of CX problems, which we then share with the design and system teams (many of whom are remote). It makes for easier sharing than, say, a spreadsheet or a Google doc. Categorization is supported through multiple dimensions, and is pretty easy to enforce.

You only need to have a browser available on your laptop to start using this tool. It doesn't require a deep or intense training to use it, most of its functions are intuitive or can be explained quickly. It simplifies a lot all the logistics involved on remote teams.

Navigation and zoom is still not straight forward, you need to configure your mouse properly to navigate and zoom on a mural board. It would be better if you could just use a combination of buttons and keys to do all the functions.

We've been using Mural for brainstorming and Design Thinking sessions mostly. The main benefit is to avoid travel expenses to assemble the team several times in the project time.

It's so easy to use. So much purpose to every feature! Truly based on how a user would like and need this tool to work and not just how a developer thinks this would works.

That not enough people know about Mural.

Try it! You don't even realise you really need it.

We are using less post-it's. It's allowed us to feel more and more comfortable with the transition to digital ways of working. We are able to save time by only writing an idea, a note, a task ONCE.

I like the simplicity of the application. Training is nice but it is not required. MURAL has a feature set that does not overwhelm its users and is powerful enough to be used for facilitation of very large workshops.

The MURAL application works best on Chrome and the user experience for Microsoft browsers is steadily improving but not as good.

Collaboration with remote teams; collaboration with local teams; visualizes thinking; 50% less time is needed to document our workshops; energizes stand ups; strategic planning and goals setting; Requirements specifications; project alignment;

It's extremely free form and easy to get ideas onto a canvas quickly. It accepts multiple inputs (even websites) via drag and drop. Group voting is a great feature too (especially for remote teams).

It's quite expensive and they don't have a free version. Larger teams may have to lobby to get it paid for. It's totally worth it if the team uses it though.

If you'd start or end any part of your process with post-it notes on a whiteboard, Mural is the digital replica of that thought. On top of that, it's a great way to organize ideas, features, research, competitors, etc. visually. Plus, group voting tools help your team prioritize all of these things with ease.

Collecting everything from research and input to ideas all in one place is massively helpful in ensuring everyone on the team has access to everything they need from day one. Questions of where "X" is and the lack of information intake can derail a project. Mural knocks all of that out at the very beginning.

Being able to track, sort and prioritize things just as you would on a whiteboard is absolutely killer.

In the last version of my semi remote Design Thinking class I implemented the use of Mural and It helped the class a lot. Mural was vital for the enrichment of the virtual interactions. It was like having a virtual war room. Things that we enjoyed: guests could work synchronously or asynchronously, Mural has an internal chat to talk with other guests or members, you could put a timer for the sessions, you also could have a voting session, there is an activity log so you could check the level of involvement of the participants, you could use or adapt a lot of templates or frameworks, and you could create your own templates. The Slack integration also was useful for receiving notifications about the use of Mural in the class Slack workspace.

If a guest does not enter the app in two weeks I had to reactive the member manually, that is time consuming.

Mural mobile app is just available for iOS.

Having a virtual place to collaborate on different design canvas like the team charter, the trend canvas, the storytelling canvas and also a brainstorming template. Having a virtual whiteboard.

The templates, the tools, ability to see each other collaborating, and removing the need for in-person paper transcription

Would like more options for the post-its and a way to more quickly integrate with the Post-It Note Plus app. Would also like the ability to upload your own custom made templates and offer them to others through some sort of sharing library or even if just for your own reference later without having to copy/paste from a previous board.

Get in and use it! Use the tutorials, check out the templates, but most of all just get in and start using!

Envisioning future possibilities, evaluating current state vs. ideal state process, understanding a problem area, aligning on opportunity scopes, prioritizing areas of focus--- all of these business problems (and then some) have been able to more quickly engage our remote stakeholders and team members and created a tool to help enable true co-creation

Mural is a fun tool that, when combined with the appropriate hardware (our choice is microsoft surface hubs and studios), can contribute immensely to the productivity of a workshop. It's easy to learn (ultimately, if you can pinch and pan, you can use mural!). And participants in my workshop have been highly complimentary of what we've been able to accomplish! Direct quote from an executive sponsor: "The technology (i.e., mural on hubs) greatly enhanced our ability to collaborate and made the workshop fun as well as productive!)

Mural is still a bit glitchy! Nothing worse than working on a mural and then losing all the content because it didn't get into the cloud. Also, don't skimp on the quality of your internet. Mural is a bandwidth hog! And, I'd love it if mural had some basic calculator functions and animation functions in it!

Go for it!

Everything from new vision statements to new operating models. We've accelerated problem solving and decision making by months in many cases. This is a combination of our workshop methodology, but it is greatly enhanced with this digital enabler!!

Mural is just so intuitive and easy to use, we have shared it with various other teams at work and they have all loved it too.

Big boards with lots of elements can be a bit slow but this hasn't caused major problems so far.

This is a really great tool that has just the right level of features so it is highly interactive, without being complex to learn. The facilitation tools are also fantastic to support interaction during a meeting or call.

We consider it essential to help us collaborate remotely. My team is based all around the country and we use this to support video and voice calling - to great effect.

The tool is completely open and flexible, allowing for individual creativity and a broad spectrum of uses.

It has solved a key need for distributed team collaboration, replacing previous attempts to share a physical whiteboard through video, screensharing, etc.

One of the best features is the ability for many users to contribute to the board at the same time while seeing all others' updates in real time.

If you leave the screen for a short period of time, it frequently goes into a "Trying to reconnect..." state, making the screen unavailable until the connection has been re-established.

It would be extremely helpful to us to have integration with Microsoft TFS. We do a lot of backlog building in Mural. The ability to generate a TFS backlog from a Mural would save us a lot of effort.

Product backlog building/brainstorming: Chief Product Owners building initiative and epic backlogs with business leaders, other CPOs, and Product Owners, most of whom are distributed across the globe. Mural has allowed us to have all attendees contribute in real time, as if we were in the room together with Post-Its on a wall.

We also use this as an information radiator to communicate our initiatives,backlog progress, impediments, and burndowns.

I love to rise above my records and glancing at them, to get insights and energy for new creativity.

This application is a dream and I like everything in the web version, but I do not have enough applications for androyd.

Try this best app on the market. Applications analogues on the order behind Mural on all fronts.

Decisions on the choice of product design and the accumulation and ordering of materials for creativity.

I love how easy it is to create a visual representation of meeting notes or a brainstorming session. Being able to search for, and drag on icons is so easy and smooth and helps take my flow-diagrams etc. to the next level!

I just wish they made exporting an area a little easier. I find the Area component a bit finicky but it's not too bad.

I use Mural to tell stories to stakeholders and team members. I find it especially useful now that I work in a satellite office to ensure that everyone is on the same page by supplementing our discussions with visuals in real-time.

I absolutely love the interface and the user experience that it provides. Mural is an amazing collaborative space. Image Google Drive on steroids with the integration and customization for designers and you get Mural.

There isn't anything that my team has disliked about Mural yet. We're still relatively new to using our product in our workplace.

During our meetings, we find it easy to collaborate and brainstorm together on our product designs with MURAL. The interface is easy for all types of users to use and appealing as well.

The fact that when you get done you don't have to erase the board, you can always come back to it and it's always saved.

`The cumbersome way the rooms and and management of them works. It feels tedious.

If you are going to have a training with people who are new to the product, you need to have a pre training session to teach them how to use mural before you get to the real training because there always seemed to be problems getting them into the room and on the right board. Plus then they struggle with moving, so you need that extra session beforehand to get people up to speed.

I've used it in training where you want to have group participation. It's used for retrospectives and visual stream maps.

Real-time collaboration ability: This tool allows for better real-time collaboration better than any other tool I've used. Especially if you work in an Agile environment or are a facilitator for dispersed teams, this tool enables work to occur more efficiently and effectively.

Live voting can be used to enhance attention by team members and provide a way to gain recorded alignment on direction.

Sometimes wish there were more formatting options for text (ie, directional alignment) but understand that this is not the focus of the tool. Also sometimes find grabbing certain elements (lines/arrows) to be more difficult than it should, even for an advanced user.

Geo-dispersed collaboration / Innovation

More can be done in less time with less travel. Requires an experienced facilitator to get best use from the tool.

The platform is very easy to use even for people that doesn't speak english.

I have problems with my students log in when people have some days without using it. My students complain a lot about that. I have to invite them again and some times they need to give me a different email because the one they use it the first time is block. I try to change the parameters in the administrator menu but is not working.

I am using Mural for teaching Design Thinking.

I like how it updates instantly and how it can really help express things visually. it's helped me stay organized without a war room at my company

I also like how easy it is to make a new note, it's like butter.

I dislike the performance sometimes, and the templates are not flexible enough for my needs.

Also Uploaded images are sometimes blurred and I have to zoom in and out to make them clear.

It's much better than other white boarding platforms and is designed with UX in mind!

I am working on user research and sharing it and getting buy in. It has helped make meetings much faster.

I've also felt more confident, organized and professional.

I like the dynamic the meetings have become in my team using Mural. We use it as a reminder, voting and organizer tool.

I don't like how much sensitive it is when you are creating a new mural. you cannot click by mistake or resize shapes sometimes is very painful.

We are solving misunderstandings within our team as all the info, updates and statuses are in Mural.

the main benefit is the transparency has brought to my team.

We use Mural to get people from different locations out of the stale conference call atmosphere and into a collaborative, visual space. It helps us think more visually and analytically and document ideas much faster than in a normal conference call. It also helps us get out of powerpoint in order to be able to critique and edit. We also share and analyze user research findings in Mural and this is a great way to allow all user research observers to share their perspective on what they saw.

It can be a little hard for brand new people to learn to use the tool quickly enough to feel comfortable in a meeting.

Improves collaborative culture, speeds up complex problem solving, reduces travel cost

virtual collaboration, "anonymous" sign-on, asynchronous and synchronous options, templates, colors, icons

The "print" options could be improved. Quality of the visuals is often compromised.

virtual collaboration and brainstorming with distributed teams; visualization of concepts, ideas, strategy, planning; engaging distributed teams

The multitude of templates on a unified platform.

Some technical difficulties here and there, but nothing too difficult to get over.

Be open to new tech & tools!

Interactive team collaboration and the ability to visualize data with qualitative information.

We use Mural for everything strategic planning, Ideation and feedback on concepts from people across the globe.

Its one of those tools that changes the way you work in the best way, no dis-likes thus far!

Highly recommend

Collaboration, virtual collaboration, strategy, feedback

very simple and very easy to learn. the best support I've ever experienced in terms of response time and quality.

the absence of built-in voice instead of using a 3rd party app.

the hassle of booking the right meeting rooms at the right time. the whole idea of a workplace has significantly changed, people practically can work anywhere\anytime, MURAL fits the modern day workplace perfectly.

Ayuda al equipo a priorizar rápidamente o restringir las opciones. Los marcos integrados son excelentes aceleradores cuando tienes un nuevo mural para una reunión. Se pueden fácilmente las plantillas en mi MURAL.

Hay que proporcionar algo de aprendizaje la primera vez que la gente participa porque les ha resultado complicado algunas veces.

Hemos preparado murales con un nuevo equipo: cada miembro puede agregar imágenes y responder preguntas para presentarse de una manera más dinámica y memorable. Lo hemos usado para sesiones de intercambio de ideas en las que todos los miembros del equipo capturan simultáneamente su punto de vista, detectando rápidamente similitudes y diferencias.