Enable navigation within a whiteboard by extending 'copy link to object' feature

Who would benefit?

All whiteboard users: designers, facilitators, cross-functional teams, workshop participants, Guest users...

What impact would it make?

Improve navigation between different parts of a whiteboard, for example as part of pre-structured interaction, workshop for group discussion or ideation, comparing related content distributed across a whiteboard.

The overall impact will be improved collaboration, workshop facilitation, ideation, and customer engagement.

How should it work?

💡 The 'Copy link to object' feature in Miro enables one to simplify navigation across a whiteboard by connecting objects to each other directly within the whiteboard. This enables multiple creative uses, such as ideation, telling a story, tracing a history, and moving from one set of related objects (e.g. screenshots of competitor features) to another related set of objects somewhere else on the same whiteboard.

Example below: a linked object in Miro shows it can be clicked on by way of a blue arrow, which will take the user to another part of the board, in this particular instance it is the contents of a large whiteboard used for competitive analysis and workshop discussion.

🚩 Currently, 'Copy link to object' opens the view of an object in a new tab if one clicks on it from within a whiteboard. Therefore, 'Copy link to an object' is very useful only insofar as one wants to share a link to a specific part of a whiteboard externally on another platform. The feature is not useful to facilitate quick, pre-structured navigation across different parts of a whiteboard for workshops with colleagues and customers.