Miro
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Makes remote working fun & people-first
What do you like best about the product?
I feel like Miro, more so than any other online whiteboard product I have used, has democratized the process of doing design & engineering work.
What do you dislike about the product?
Filesharing & searching for documents. The sharing of permissions is the most cumbersome part of Miro. I also wish I could better organize my files into folders. If this functionality exists, I don't yet know about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work on a cross-functional team building software. We use Miro for planning, retrospectives, work sharing, and critiques. I like the way that you can use the same Miro board over and over for a paper trail of historical work.
Miro is Jack of all but master of creative planning
What do you like best about the product?
I particularly love following things about Miro.
1. It offers an unlimited digital whiteboard, where users can draw or create as per their need and capture or generate them by using frames into various file formats.
2. Collaboration, communication, and file sharing are all possible in real-time with this application.
3. It also has a particular feature called Miroverse, which contains tons of prebuilt templates and designs to choose from.
4. Best for a more creative way of planning and managing things.
1. It offers an unlimited digital whiteboard, where users can draw or create as per their need and capture or generate them by using frames into various file formats.
2. Collaboration, communication, and file sharing are all possible in real-time with this application.
3. It also has a particular feature called Miroverse, which contains tons of prebuilt templates and designs to choose from.
4. Best for a more creative way of planning and managing things.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the notable downsides of Miro includes:
1. The pricing plan is costly as they charge per user.
2. Not very ideal for an entire project or task management regularly.
3. Not suitable for designing powerful presentations and transitions.
1. The pricing plan is costly as they charge per user.
2. Not very ideal for an entire project or task management regularly.
3. Not suitable for designing powerful presentations and transitions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Even though there are certain advantages and disadvantages to using Miro, the overall experience has been positive thus far because it provides too many capabilities in a single application. However, we find it particularly useful for creative planning and brainstorming, whether done independently or as a group, because it includes an integrated team communication function.
Miro is a universe of digital creation
What do you like best about the product?
Hundreds of prebuilt templates from different categories, inbuilt real-time communication options to choose from, such as text, chat, and video calls, are the significant feature of Miro that sets it apart from other existing visual collaboration tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing plan offered by Miro is quite skeptical and costly as they charge per user per month/year; instead, they should think about a bulk package for the entire team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This freehand whiteboarding application has quickly become a favorite among our team members since it enables our whole team to communicate visually whenever and wherever we want, without interruption.
The best way to plot thought process and share it within a team
What do you like best about the product?
Miro's outstanding features include the ability to conduct collaborative brainstorming sessions, process mapping (to detect bottlenecks), and virtual meetings and breakout sessions through its built-in communication function.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although Miro has a commenting function that allows users to post text comments, quickly recording and uploading voice remarks would be a time-saving and straightforward procedure, which Miro presently lacks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Miro has now become a multifunctional digital whiteboard that our entire enjoys using and collaborating on. We draw and brainstorm and draft ideas and processes that connect to our company's overall strategy, which is impossible to do with a conventional whiteboard.
Miro allows for easy collaboration in a virtual work world.
What do you like best about the product?
I love the number of tools available to show what you are envisioning visually and being able to communicate this with team members.
What do you dislike about the product?
There really are no cons for me when using Miro. The only negative is that my co-workers don't completely understand how it functions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaboration and visually drawing marketing activities are a lot easier virtually. This would be even a tool I would use back in the office to plan for campaigns and customer journeys more effectively.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider the gap that you have in your workplace. Do you want to explain a concept without a whiteboard better? Are you in a virtual setting? Even if you are not a creative/executor, how do you communicate better with your team?
Miro - An environment where ideas can be expressed creatively, shared easily and improved constantly
What do you like best about the product?
Visual - Miro encourages you to express ideas using visual elements. By default, we communicate ideas using words (written and verbal). Words are helpful when trying to remove ambiguity around a reasonably well-understood subject. However, in the early stages of an idea (e.g., brainstorming), an image/visual representation may be more effective. It communicates the essentials of an idea very quickly. It prompts the viewer to understand the concept in their own words. It does not overwhelm the viewer with peripheral information. Miro allows you to use words but provides the most value when you restrict them. It's not a giant word processing document. It's more like a vast canvas. Miro provides plenty of space so your idea isn't limited to what can fit on a single slide or page. Miro makes getting started with an idea, project, or proposal much less painful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Movement Tracker - When you're on a Miro board, an item hovers over the board to let other people know exactly where you are. During a meeting this feature is brilliant. It enables participants to know they're looking at the same thing. When creating a diagram this is less helpful. As a general rule, it's nice to work in silence until your idea is ready to be revealed. The "movement-tracker" can attract unecessary attention. Comments/feedback while you're in the process of creating aren't always helpful. They may stall the creative process and turn it into a bug-fixing exercise. There may be a feature that allows you to disable this "movement-tracker". I'll explore further.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're building an application that allows mentors to share knowledge, skills, and experience with mentees. What are the essential things a mentee or mentor would like to do? If someone joins as a mentee and decides they'd like to be a mentor, what process will they go through? Which similar applications currently exist? These are some of the questions we're discussing. Miro allows us to present many ideas on one board. The images don't have to be closely linked or set out in a particular way. All diagrams can be freely reviewed, discussed, re-reviewed, and expanded. Miro makes all of this very easy. It's much more straightforward to track developments on one board than it would be to follow updates made to multiple documents.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Dive in. You won't regret it. It isn't a replacement for other tools you may currently use, e.g., word processors, spreadsheets, and presentations. It's a highly effective way to summarise concepts that may be spread across various documents and bring them together in one place.
Miro is not just fantastic; it's moreover funtastic
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate how quickly and easily I can draw and plot the entire thought process that I have in mind to have a clear vision and insights into what I brainstorm. Furthermore, it has built-in team collaboration and productivity features that let our entire team work together on various strategic and planning-related tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
This tool is helpful for creative diagramming and strategic planning on a specific topic. Still, it is not suitable for routine content creation or task management in the manner of Asana, Todoist, and other similar tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A digital whiteboard with no limits, Miro allows me to draw and map whatever I think of on one side while simultaneously recording it on the other. However, I collaborate closely with colleagues in important project planning and strategy situations as if we were both sitting at the same desk.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
An individual or a team who only thinks within their head but struggles to visualize them into reality should try the Miro visual collaboration tool.
Almost Perfect
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is a fantastic collaboration tool. I use this regularly to conduct collaboration sessions within my team, to generate ideas (alone), and to orchestrate tightly-knit, high-profile workshops and work sessions with departments and executives within my organization. The tools are easy to use, there is a relatively low learning curve for new users (the basics can be learned in minutes), and powerful features like voting, timers, music and the ability to hide and show canvases are a true win. In a world where remote work is more commonplace, it is hard to imagine getting certain work done as efficiently without Miro. I'm a fan.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some elements of Miro that limit is function. One is the inability to assign "roles" to boards based on user type. For example, as a board owner, I can hide/show frames... but a co-facilitator cannot. So, if I'm sick or cannot make a meeting and boards are hidden, I'm out of luck unless I can transfer ownership to someone else. It would be nice to be able to assign more than own "owner" to a board so those controls can be shared. Licensing is challenging too. I know some competing products allow "free" use of the tool when invited to work in a board, but for a limited time. In our situation any user that needs to be able to "edit" a board must be a licensed user... and that process causes friction and ill-will before people have even used the tool. If working with external clients, the need for privacy is important too, so the ability to set up boards as private, restricting the type of content that is accessible externally, is important.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Miro's built-in templates and create our own. We've submitted templates to the Miroverse and have designed boards that have become a standard within (and beyond) our organizations. Many of us that lead workshops are professional designers and have been leading in-person workshops for years. It's all about creating the ideal end-user experience for participants. Working in a virtual environment has resulted in new challenges (Zoom fatigue, etc) so we've had to invent new ways of creating engaging experiences and this tool helps us do some of that. We've used Miro to create broad (and specific) ideas, orchestrate stand-ups and sprint retrospectives, plan long-term events and educational plans, document discussion, prioritize initiatives, vote on ideas, and many, many more. My team uses this took more than any other software product, especially in a remote-work environment. Even if we were doing things in-person, Miro lets us capture (and retain) our work... unlike a traditional wall or whiteboard.
Miro eases the collaborative work for projects handled online and helps on Project management tools
What do you like best about the product?
The capacity to draw schemas and flows. It helps on doing brainstormings collective and personal.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does not offer as many figures as other software like Canva.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me with project management issues, to prepare workshops that are easy to share and to work together, to make big schemas of production process flows...
Trying to incorporate Miro in class lectures...
What do you like best about the product?
Instead of the linear presentation of slides, Miro enables me to display ideas next to one another in a nonlinear manner that better illustrates the complexities and multi-layered nature of what we are discussing. I can even start in the center of a board and work outward toward the edges. I am still trying to figure out how to do this with post-its and images (jpegs), short animiations, and short film clips.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's taking me time to learn Miro and, with my schedule, I keep having to set it aside until I have time, which is usually months later, and I have to re-teach myself each time I start back up. I had hope to be using Miro in the classrooms by now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to display ideas and topics in our discussion nonlinearly solves the problem of flipping back and forth between slides. Miro allows me to leave each concept (picture and/or post-it with text) posted on our board so, as the class discussion progresses, the students can see how the topics expand. They are encouraged to see how ideas develop, building upon one another and how they might connect and relate to one another.
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