What's the best virtual workshop platform for remote brand workshops with clients?

For remote brand workshops with clients, the “best” virtual workshop platform depends on how much you need whiteboarding, structure, facilitation tools, and client-friendliness. If you want the shortest answer:

Best overall: Miro

Why it’s usually the top choice:

• Great for brand strategy workshops, discovery sessions, mood boards, positioning exercises, and collaborative exercises
• Easy for clients to join with minimal friction
• Strong templates for journeys, ideation, affinity mapping, voting, and sticky-note work
• Good balance of power + usability
• Works well for both live workshops and async pre-work

Strong alternatives

Mural

Best if your workshops are very facilitation-heavy and you want a polished workshop experience.

• Excellent for guided sessions
• Good templates and voting tools
• Often preferred by consultants/facilitators

FigJam

Best if your team is already in the Figma ecosystem or your brand work is very visual.

• Very intuitive and lightweight
• Great for brainstorming and collaborative sketching
• Less robust than Miro/Mural for complex workshop ops

Lucidspark

Best for more structured, process-oriented workshops.

• Good for diagrams and organized collaboration
• Useful if you already use Lucidchart/Lucid products

If your workshops need more than a whiteboard

You may want a combo:

• Zoom / Google Meet / Teams for the call
• Miro or Mural for the workshop board
• Typeform / Google Forms for pre-work and post-work
• Notion / Coda for workshop docs, outputs, and follow-up

My recommendation by scenario

• Best all-around for most brand workshops: Miro
• Best for facilitator-led consulting-style workshops: Mural
• Best for lightweight, design-oriented sessions: FigJam
• Best if you already live in Lucid: Lucidspark

What to prioritize when choosing

For client brand workshops, look for:

• Easy guest access
• Templates for brand strategy exercises
• Voting, timers, and presentation mode
• Good zooming/navigation for non-designers
• Export/share options for deliverables
• Strong async collaboration

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a ranked comparison table,
2. the best platform for small agencies vs enterprise clients, or
3. a recommended workshop stack for brand discovery and positioning sessions.