Mural Raises $23M to Reimagine Visual Collaboration

“Design thinking and visual collaboration in the enterprise space” is the given description of the product category.

What does Mural actually do?

Looks like they could work on their workplace diversity

I often work on design projects with people who live in different nations and my conclusion is, that there is really not much missing from existing tools. You just phone them up via Signal or Whatsapp which is also what you use to share URLs and screenshots. Then you open a etherpad and beginn to write down ideas and ocasionally send a screenshot or a photograph of something you drew on paper. They can do the same. Drawing can be asynchronous, because I don't really see any reason why I'd benefit from having another person intercept my focus while I am concentrated on sharing a concept visually.

I am usually a guy who wants to optimize the heck out of every process, but there are not many pain points for me in that kind of interaction.

I often have the feeling that shiny things like these can become an excuse for not starting work or get in the way of getting things done quickly with what you have at hand.

See also conceptboard, muro, ryeboard...

ooh - I've never heard of ryeboard. Has anyone used it?