17 Best Visual Collaboration Tools for Remote Work

Before getting into details about visual collaboration tools, let me ask you a simple question: Would you prefer to work in a shabby office or one in which everything is organized? The answer is obvious, an organized workspace. You probably have an ideal workspace idea, preferably with resources such as::

• Whiteboard
• Projector
• Sticky Notes
• Paperclips
• Multi-colored markers
• And an adjustable webcam to showcase to your team the work you are doing

Physical tools are good as long as it's an in-house team. For remote teams, in order to work at scale, visual collaboration tools can be of great value. These tools offer a number of features that imitate those used and processes followed when collaborating in-person with your teammates.

Some features of an ideal Visual Collaboration tool:

• Shared workspace for all the content and ideas (similar to a whiteboard)
• Templates for project planning, strategy, design, etc.
• Video chat while sharing screen (similar to putting up a webcam on your whiteboard)
• Meeting rooms
• Diagramming
• Labeled cursors

Additionally, these tools offer greater flexibility in terms of storage - you can’t buy as many physical whiteboards as you like for every design you create, duh!!🙄

Pro-Tip:

While choosing any visual collaboration software, understand whether it integrates seamlessly with the existing workflow of your organization, or offers customization to do so. This will go a long way in ensuring smooth coordination between your entire team and ensuring excellent results.

For a wholesome remote working environment, just visual collaboration is not enough, though. Hence, we have also put together lists of other collaboration tools across various categories, do check them out, too:

• Team chat apps
• Code Collaboration Tools
• Mail Communication tools
• Idea Management tools
• Design collaboration tools
• Document Collaboration Tools
• Interactive whiteboard tools
• Video conferencing apps

Here’s our list of the best visual collaboration applications for remote work: