Organize ideas with an affinity diagram online
Bring focus to brainstorming sessions and structure your findings with an affinity diagram tool. Group ideas more cohesively and build better products.
Quickly visualize ideas with an affinity diagram
Help teams make sense of complex or diverse ideas by creating an affinity diagram. Get a head start with Miro’s ready-made template and facilitate your session with ease.
Why Miro is the best affinity diagram tool
Explore possibilities
Unleash your ideas without constraints with Miro’s infinite canvas. Add sticky notes, images, drawings, and any other artifact that helps you to create your affinity diagram according to your project needs.
Brainstorms that work
Miro's affinity diagram tool lets you organize every thought and idea with just a few clicks. Bring more coherence to your sessions and make sure everyone leaves the room feeling productive.
The single source of truth
Use an affinity diagram to develop innovative solutions. Create a central hub for your team, making it easy for everyone to track progress and refer to the diagram whenever needed.
Built for collaboration
Collaborate in real-time or async, no matter your team setup. Get instant feedback, tag colleagues in comments, and co-create your affinity diagram online.
Integrated with your favorite tools
Ideas, inspiration, and intel in full view. Visualize marketing campaigns and client and prospect info to take action, and track tasks and status updates for the team.
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Affinity diagram tool FAQs
How can I organize ideas in a group in Miro?
In Miro, it’s easy to organize and cluster your ideas. Use the Cluster by feature to group sticky notes by common themes, tags, sentiment, color, and author. Or, use our ready-made Affinity Diagram Template to help you structure ideas on the board.
How do you use an affinity diagram in UX?
In User Experience (UX) design, affinity diagrams are invaluable tools for organizing and understanding large amounts of qualitative data. Start by gathering data from various sources like user interviews, surveys, or usability tests, and write each piece of data or observation on a separate sticky note. Then, sort these stickies into groups based on similarities or patterns, creating a header for each group that summarizes its main theme. This process uncovers trends, insights, key user needs, and pain points from the data, which can then guide and inform your UX design decisions. Keep in mind the affinity diagram is a flexible tool that can be adjusted as your understanding of the data evolves.
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