Helping every Miro user understand their work

Home and the sidebar are where people create and find their work in Miro. About 70% of active users pass through them every month, and nine out of ten boards are created there.

Those pages had not been redesigned in two years, and the product was getting hard to navigate. A limited sidebar held people back, menus were cluttered, and the main growth actions were scattered. And over the last year the number of people creating boards fell faster than the number of users.

For Canvas 26, Miro's 2026 launch event, I led the rebuild of everything outside the board, working with teams across the company, from growth to admin. Home became a launchpad to recent boards, with a Library page for everything else. One slim sidebar now follows you everywhere, so you can reach any page from any board. Boards and Spaces got recognisable emojis that also show in the browser tab. Then we kept iterating. We put the main actions, like create, in the same place on every page, and paid down technical debt to make loading faster.

25% more people now pick an emoji than had picked one of the old thumbnails. People use the new sidebar as a set of shortcuts, which replaced the browser bookmarks many of them kept and made the product stickier. After the iterations, 2.5% more people create boards across the full user base, and Home loads four to five times faster.