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Canvas 26: How AI Is Reshaping the Role of Design

Miro's Head of Design for AI hosts a fireside chat with three design leaders — Cat Drew (Chief Design Officer, UK Design Council), Anna (Head of Product Design & Research, Kingfisher), and Peekay Alpundrick (Experience Design Director, VML / WPP) — on what AI is really doing to design teams. They cover the speed trap nobody talks about, the "tyranny of text" pulling teams away from visual thinking, why collaboration has to become more intentional, and whether the double diamond is still fit for purpose. They close with bold predictions — including tokens becoming the new currency of design work, and a stark warning.

Miro + Microsoft: Turning individual productivity into organizational efficiency

In Gartner’s evaluation framework for enterprise AI assistants, Microsoft Copilot sits in the “Foundational Capability” tier. It drafts, summarizes, generates, and searches across Microsoft 365, making individuals faster at a scale few tools can match. Foundational is exactly right — it’s the layer everything else builds on. What unlocks the next level is turning that individual speed into organizational alignment.

Here's what 33 students taught me about the future of product development

If you want to get a feel for the future of product development, one of the best places to look is NYU Stern’s Tech MBA program. This is where the next generation of PMs cut their teeth, so a few months ago we reached out to one of the program’s lead professors with a question: What if we pointed the students at some of the biggest problems in New York — from grocery prices and transit equity to bike lane safety and childcare — and gave them one day to build a solution that worked?

How Belfius Built an AI Banking Assistant with Miro | Canvas 26

Belfius, Belgium's leading bank — rebuilt the way its product, design, and customer journey teams work together using Miro. In this Canvas 26 customer spotlight, Jonathan, Steph (Product Owner, mobile banking app) and Laurent (Customer Journey Designer) walk through "Hey Belfius," the AI personal banking assistant built with Miro that replaced menu-driven feature hunting with a real conversation — now live for 2.2 million app users.

How I cut design reviews from two weeks to one meeting with rapid prototyping

Mia Pendergast is a product manager at The Home Depot. During the Miro AI Build Sprint, she built a three-step Flow that turns sticky-note feedback into a clickable prototype, and two-week design reviews into a single meeting. Here’s how she built it, and a template you can try. As a PM at The Home Depot, I know that design reviews can drag on for weeks.

What's New: What we launched in May 2026

AI made every individual on your team faster. Now, it’s time for your whole team to move at that pace — and make sure you’re all heading in the same direction. At Canvas 26, we announced new ways to keep your tools, context, and team connected as you build the right things, faster and together. In case you missed it, you can watch the full Canvas 26 keynote on demand to see how teams can tap into collaborative AI to amplify their impact. TL;DW?