Miro
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A game-changing tool for workshopping, ideating, roadmapping and creative activities.
What do you like best about the product?
The UX is really simple and smooth and it's easy to use from the get go.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only gripe is no high res PDF exports on the basic plan... Not a problem since I've upgraded.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Use it for whiteboarding, interactive workshops, any visualisation work. The huge freestyle canvas and pinch and zoom means zero constraints.
Miro - Best Visualization Tool!
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of the interface and the ability to clearly articulate plans/mocks/complex workflows.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't too much to dislike about the platform. I do wish that the integrations and sharing capabilities were a little more advanced.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Miro is an excellent tool for providing visual mockups of brain trees, improvised project plans, critical path workflows, and several other forms of visual representation of data. It is an essential tool to me as a Sales Engineer and allows me to perform my job to the highest degree. I am able to clearly articulate my thought process internally to my team and externally to prospects/clients.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for a one-stop-shop platform to assist with all of the features mentioned earlier then I highly recommend Miro!
Great for people who have a hard time organizing their thoughts! (ADHD friendly)
What do you like best about the product?
I love that the different boards are created with specific organizational needs in mind. There's always a board that will work best for a particular project. It's also super user-friendly by helping with alignments and the tools follow your clicks rather than being locked at the top of the page. It helps me know what I'm editing.
What do you dislike about the product?
It took me a while to decide which board to use. I ended up using the board that looked the easiest to use rather than what may have been the better board for what I needed to do. I got a little frustrated with some boards because I couldn't figure out how to use them. I may have been asked if I wanted a tutorial on how to use it, and I clicked out of it,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am an extremely disorganized person. I have severe ADHD, and my desk is always covered in sticky notes and full pages of writing that I never look at again. Miro helps me keep my thoughts and processes organized, they turn the full pages of writing and sticky notes into structured and concrete thoughts that I can connect to one another.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
In this remote world, Miro is a great tool for team collaboration without being face-to-face. I've been able to review work from my peers at ease and on my own time, as well as been able to effectively communicate my work to my peers in a way that is organized and tidy with the different editing and alignment tools Miro offers.
Miro is the best online whiteboarding tool I've found
What do you like best about the product?
The way it balances allowing freeform expression and the right level of constraints in interaction with elements. Most tools sit in a spectrum of allowing freeform expression the same way a physical whiteboarding tool would and some rigidity, allowing itself to be more opinionated and solve very specific problems. I feel Miro lies at the exact middle and allows for enough flexibility that people have found it to be more than just for drawing diagrams, but I've seen it used to host games, facilitate workshops, and so much more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lacking specialization, as mentioned above, there are specific diagrams that are much harder to draw with a mouse. As a software engineer, for example, it's challenging to try and connect elements that weren't intended to be connected the usual box and lines that Miro supports. There are add ons available for some of them though. For others, I just do them in the specialized tool and paste it back to Miro.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The collaboration is another strong point. It's become to whiteboarding what gmail is to email, or google docs to collaborating on documents. I can just as easy jump in, share the Miro board link, and invite people in to the board. Them having to make an account is probably the only barrier to this. There are also a number of neat features for facilitating meetings, like timers, and draw people's attention to your cursor.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's an amazing tool for collaboration that sits neatly between flexibility and an appropriate level of constraint between elements in the board.
Excellent Living Whiteboard Wall
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is a far superior tool to the traditional whiteboard that we used in the office. Previously when in the office, we would write words and add sticky notes to a wall while brainstorming or project planning. At the end of a traditional session, we would either write down the final decision or take a picture to remind us of how we arrived at the decisions we made. With Miro, we can collaborate the same way virtually, and the "wall" lives on, which allows additional asynchronous and synchronous discussions to occur. Miro also saves time as it is quick and easy to review past brainstorming and decisions along with adding new thoughts to the Mior board. Additionally, the highlighting of changes since last time is helpful to see what other team members have added asynchronously.
What do you dislike about the product?
Navigation: I find navigation within Miro tricky and often frustrating. More often than not, I accidentally move information on the board when I intend to move to a different area on the board. I have identified the "undo" button, which allows me to fix any unintended moves, but it causes additional time to correct errors.
Screen share: Although external links relevant to the project can be included in the Miro board, with the Miro meeting, I am unable to share the screen so that all meeting attendees are looking at the same external information. The lack of external screen share causes me to use google meets more frequently than the Miro "meeting" functionality.
Screen share: Although external links relevant to the project can be included in the Miro board, with the Miro meeting, I am unable to share the screen so that all meeting attendees are looking at the same external information. The lack of external screen share causes me to use google meets more frequently than the Miro "meeting" functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Miro when aligning visions to define a project. It is an excellent collaboration tool, as it allows everyone to voice (write) their thoughts, which in turn allows more enriching discussions including clarification of ideas. The voting feature is great for ensuring alignment on ideas. It alows everyone a "voice" at the meeting to share their ideas. With proper documentation, those who have not attended the synchronous meeting are able to review the Miro board and contribute to the project asynchronous. As a result of using Miro, we have been more successful in aligning the vision and scope of projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Appoint a Miro champion internally to encourage others to use Miro and provide examples to teams where Miro can improve current practices.
The great platform not just for brainstorming and thoughts organizing but bot creating the solutions
What do you like best about the product?
I'm a massive fan of creative and strategy sprint sessions, and Miro is the perfect tool for it. Thanks to its tools Miro makes the collaboration so easy and fun that the whole 4-hour sprint passes in just one go with no fatigue and stress. I highly recommend Miro for team collaboration and brainstorm sessions. And especially as a perfect tool for the facilitators.
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't notice anything terrible about Miro because the product is developing and improving so rapidly that you only see new or updated features making the experience better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I handle creative and strategy sprints on Miro boards. So, it's primarily marketing-related tasks. Miro i's also good to keep, organize and analyze data and information. I used it for cus dev studies and other product improvements. It has plenty of templates related to many topics and fields.
Enables a remote-first team with a great user experience
What do you like best about the product?
What I especially like about Miro is the possibility to create frames and easily navigate through them while presenting content. In addition to that, to conduct workshops the timer and the feature to show collaborators' cursors are super helpful for a moderator. I also enjoy the integration of Miro with Slack, so that I quickly get to see notifications when there's something new in my boards. Miro is my number one helper whenever there's a remote workshop and I use it very much with my teams as we are a remote-first company. I've tried other platforms like Mural and I must say that Miro's user experience is superior.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are way too many templates, and some of them are hard to edit. I wish I didn't have to browse through all templates to find the one I need e.g. if Miro would ask me a few questions to understand what my goals are with a new board and then suggest me a few that could fit my use case.
I also wish the tutorials were easier to find and perhaps in a guided tour such as the ones you can get when using Userlane.
Once I tried to contact Miro support to ask about voting data that was not saved, but as I have a free account, it was impossible to find the contact. Finding the answer in the Miro community was not easy.
I also wish the tutorials were easier to find and perhaps in a guided tour such as the ones you can get when using Userlane.
Once I tried to contact Miro support to ask about voting data that was not saved, but as I have a free account, it was impossible to find the contact. Finding the answer in the Miro community was not easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In a remote-first environment, it is hard to know whether people still follow your ideas or if their attention span is long gone during a workshop or a team ceremony.
With Miro, I feel empowered as a manager to lead my teams in a safe environment. A place where everyone feels encouraged to share their ideas.
Before Miro we were collaborating using Google Workspace apps. Still, there was nothing that could replace a good physical whiteboard to spark new ideas. Miro has changed this game, and my team members adopted it quickly as the usability is excellent.
With Miro, I feel empowered as a manager to lead my teams in a safe environment. A place where everyone feels encouraged to share their ideas.
Before Miro we were collaborating using Google Workspace apps. Still, there was nothing that could replace a good physical whiteboard to spark new ideas. Miro has changed this game, and my team members adopted it quickly as the usability is excellent.
Very beginner friendly!
What do you like best about the product?
I think the most helpful thing about Miro is not only the tools they offer in the tool itself but the other resources they provide. As a newbie to Miro it was very easy to use but I didn't realize how much Miro had to offer. That is until I tuned into one of their zoom education sessions. They had so much information on all the tips and tricks and it was all super easy to digest.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have anything I dislike quite yet
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has made affinity mapping super easy to go through not to mention there is a feature in which you can take a picture of your sticky notes and they will be uploaded to Miro so that you don't have to re write on to Miro. There's also a page in which you can find all the short cuts so that you don't have to memorize them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think everyone should try it out, it had so many great things to offer!
Miro is intuitive in all senses, using the mouse, the different objects, even integrating w/3rd
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to be all looking the same without sharing the screen, I love automation like voting, and timer, among the main.
Integrating with other apps like "flip cards", Jira issues, randomized number or object selections, and various Agile applications make it easy to do more.
Integrating with other apps like "flip cards", Jira issues, randomized number or object selections, and various Agile applications make it easy to do more.
What do you dislike about the product?
when organizing boards there is just a project level and when the number of boards is large within a project it's hard to find one quickly.
I've noticed sometimes I need to enable complete incognito sessions, as a creator and there is no such feature.
I've noticed sometimes I need to enable complete incognito sessions, as a creator and there is no such feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
They facilitate all kinds of meetings especially Scrum, creating templates for other colleagues to reuse.
We've expanded its use to provide training about Agility, also as part of our recognition program and we've created a standard board, and team members can join and assign a badge and leave a comment this later is moved to a company-wide database.
We've expanded its use to provide training about Agility, also as part of our recognition program and we've created a standard board, and team members can join and assign a badge and leave a comment this later is moved to a company-wide database.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
not additional to the mentiones above
Miro a intuitive creative platform for you or in collaboration with your colleagues
What do you like best about the product?
Every creative process starts with a brainstorming phase. You want to gather and collect without any boundaries or structure.
Miro boards are like a vast floor where you can throw all the stuff you have on. Anything you find and come up with (post-its, drawings, notes, etc.). Side by side, on top of each other, left or right - your choice. Videos, Images, documents, notes, drawings, there's no limit.
Once you have saturated your board, you can start to organize all the stuff if you don't already have applied a template (plenty ready-made available to choose from) and placed your content. Sort things, distill, add, pair, place.
With frames you can place and size anywhere on the board, all the content you choose to organize can become a presentation. Super easy.
Once you get a grip, you will realize the potential of zooming in and out on your board. One super zoomed-out frame can contain tens and tens of detailed frames you can zoom in on.
Two modes of presentation give you either a fly-around "Prezi" type of experience or you have the classical PowerPoint frame presentation view (although without transition possibilities - see negatives).
At the click of a button you can either export the entire board as an entire pdf, a pdf slide presentation or you can share the board for viewing or real-time updated and synchronized editing collaboration.
These are only a few of the features and functions.
Miro boards are like a vast floor where you can throw all the stuff you have on. Anything you find and come up with (post-its, drawings, notes, etc.). Side by side, on top of each other, left or right - your choice. Videos, Images, documents, notes, drawings, there's no limit.
Once you have saturated your board, you can start to organize all the stuff if you don't already have applied a template (plenty ready-made available to choose from) and placed your content. Sort things, distill, add, pair, place.
With frames you can place and size anywhere on the board, all the content you choose to organize can become a presentation. Super easy.
Once you get a grip, you will realize the potential of zooming in and out on your board. One super zoomed-out frame can contain tens and tens of detailed frames you can zoom in on.
Two modes of presentation give you either a fly-around "Prezi" type of experience or you have the classical PowerPoint frame presentation view (although without transition possibilities - see negatives).
At the click of a button you can either export the entire board as an entire pdf, a pdf slide presentation or you can share the board for viewing or real-time updated and synchronized editing collaboration.
These are only a few of the features and functions.
What do you dislike about the product?
The presentation mode could be improved: Transitions for the slide view mode. Repeated viewing of the same frame in a presentatation sequence. Hide and reveal elements. Exporting functionality to Power Point. Easier navigation betweem frames overall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For us: Global collaboration in creative processes. Perfect for people that either work over different time zones on the same material to share a board or for groups that simultaneously work on the same material at the same time.
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