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Observations and Opportunities on Styles, Brand Center and Color


Kyle Chipman

I couldn’t find an existing wish list idea on this front (and, uh, I kind of wrote a lot). If one / many of these already exist, please link to consolidate upvotes :)

I had some observations surface around the management of Styles, Brand Center and Color that I wanted to share. I might have posted the thoughts elsewhere in the Community, but not as Wish List items:

BRANDS + BRAND CENTER

  • Multiple custom-named Brands comprised of Color and Style selections. Could feature an on/off selection for Font (if defined) after selecting the Brand
  • Sync of Brands with CC Libraries from Adobe Creative Cloud, specifically focusing on Swatches and color naming conventions (Primaries, Accents, Overflows)
  • At the Admin level, real-time addition or removal of Primary, Accents and Overflow through the board rather than through the dedicated Brand Center
  • The ability to collapse custom-named Brands when selecting colors
  • The ability to group Brands for collapse and filtration when selecting colors

COLORS

  • The ability to “Removal All” non-default swatches from the “All Colors” section
  • The ability to right-click-copy the hex code from a given color for reference in another environment

STYLED OBJECTS, TEMPLATES and MASTER FRAMES

  • The ability to define a Default Brand Style across all Team or Organization accounts (I kind of forget the taxonomy here)
  • The ability to define styles on objects, comprised of:
    • Fill Color
    • Fill Opacity
    • Stroke Color
    • Stroke Type
    • Stroke Thickness
  • The ability to locate and scale these objects relative to the aspect ratio of a frame (height and width)
  • The ability to load Brand Styles into Styles Objects
  • After loading Style Objects into a Frame and creating a Template, the ability to update all default-state Style Objects / Templates. The default-state part is to ensure that anyone who edits their Style Object, either via Brand Style or just by changing the parameters, keeps the changes they made. Kind of like a Master Page and inheritance in InDesign.

This turned out to be a lot! Fun to compile.

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Manouska J
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  • March 8, 2024

Thanks for submitting this idea @Kyle Chipman! We’ve made some updates to Workshop & Presentation that are applicable to some of the features ideas mentioned here that I think you might find helpful. We can’t wait to share more with you soon!

To learn more about this feature and all other Miro product updates, join us on March 13 or 14, for our What’s New Product Webinar. You’ll hear directly from our Product Marketing team about how you can use these features to just make work, flow! Hope to see you there and hope you’ve been well 😉👋🏿


Kyle Chipman
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  • March 8, 2024
Manouska J wrote:

Thanks for submitting this idea @Kyle Chipman! We’ve made some updates to Workshop & Presentation that are applicable to some of the features ideas mentioned here that I think you might find helpful. We can’t wait to share more with you soon!

To learn more about this feature and all other Miro product updates, join us on March 13 or 14, for our What’s New Product Webinar. You’ll hear directly from our Product Marketing team about how you can use these features to just make work, flow! Hope to see you there and hope you’ve been well 😉👋🏿

Awesome, thanks for the heads up Manouska. Just signed up for the AEDT session. Looking forward to it :)

I’m kicking ass over here in Portland - thanks for the kind words. Hope all is well on your side as well.


Kyle Chipman
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  • March 14, 2024

Thanks for the heads up @Manouska J, was able to join the APAC region. Super exciting stuff.

I’ll mention this in the Creator Community as well, but the fully released version of Brand Center looks essentially unchanged from the final iteration of the beta version, which is what I referenced for my initial observations. I would say that the majority of my observations still stand.

However, Templates → Slides addresses the “Master Frame” functionality I was flagging. Super cool. I would go one step further and request the ability to have user-defined Slide Templates rather than system-locked Slide Templates. After that, the only remaining functionality is inheritance of master-level fields, i.e. Text and Images, like Master Page inheritance in InDesign.

Great stuff! Big thanks to the teams who produced the events across all regions.


Manouska J
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  • March 15, 2024
Kyle Chipman wrote:

Thanks for the heads up @Manouska J, was able to join the APAC region. Super exciting stuff.

I’ll mention this in the Creator Community as well, but the fully released version of Brand Center looks essentially unchanged from the final iteration of the beta version, which is what I referenced for my initial observations. I would say that the majority of my observations still stand.

However, Templates → Slides addresses the “Master Frame” functionality I was flagging. Super cool. I would go one step further and request the ability to have user-defined Slide Templates rather than system-locked Slide Templates. After that, the only remaining functionality is inheritance of master-level fields, i.e. Text and Images, like Master Page inheritance in InDesign.

Great stuff! Big thanks to the teams who produced the events across all regions.

Thanks for the feedback, @Kyle Chipman! Will be sure to share this feedback with the team. So happy to hear you could join the webinar and thriving in Portland 😊


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  • August 23, 2024

Muttiple BRAND/Custom Styles

@Kyle Chipman had this on his wish list and I have the same need.

I create TEAMS and projects for multiple clients or for campaigns and they each have a required STYLE GUIDELINE.   I have to create those styles (colours, fonts) at a board level by hand as there is only one BRAND STYLE slot available.

I would like to be able to create multiople custom syles

I would like to be able to impose a different custome style as the ‘local brand style’ for each MIRO TEAM i create


Eca
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  • August 23, 2024

Hi @Paul Brand 

 

Thanks for following up on this thread and sharing more information. 

 

Our team has reviewed this and it’s open for votes and comments. 

 

For those coming across this idea, if you feel this would be helpful for you or your business, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request!

 

Thank you again for helping make Miro better!

 

 

 


Kyle Chipman
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  • August 23, 2024

Rock and roll, thanks Eca. Damn, I wrote down a lot at of things a half year back!

I feel like this kind of stuff, laundry lists of methodologies, are less likely to reach a critical mass of attention than an acutely-defined need or pain point. All to say that I’m always happy to be a resource if your team ends up pursuing this line of thought.

Best everyone’s way :)


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