Miro
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A must for online collaborative design thinking
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is easy to use, intuitive and best of all, comes with an app for both mobile and desktop. Even the mobile app has most of the functionality of the desktop app. Easy to invite others to collaborate and a complete library of free templates to get you started from workshops and ideation to use cases. Search works well for any text captured on the board and the "bring to me" function brings users to the correct spot on the board in record time.
The extent of the tools within Miro is great - text, stickies, symbols, IconFinder and a firm favourite from a design perspective - the Wireframe library. Mind map works very well and being able to make connections between the respective elements is useful. Visually, it is appealing and modern and it has helped tremendously in preparation of design sessions.
Miro integrates to Microsoft Teams, which is a huge plus.
A must for all design thinking lovers, project managers, business analysts, strategists and anyone having to facilitate team sessions these days. The upside for facilitators is that all input is captured and you no longer need a project administrator to sit and tediously capture stickies after a brown paper excercise. Boards can be shared, saved and exported for later use. These are just some of the basic capabilities.
The extent of the tools within Miro is great - text, stickies, symbols, IconFinder and a firm favourite from a design perspective - the Wireframe library. Mind map works very well and being able to make connections between the respective elements is useful. Visually, it is appealing and modern and it has helped tremendously in preparation of design sessions.
Miro integrates to Microsoft Teams, which is a huge plus.
A must for all design thinking lovers, project managers, business analysts, strategists and anyone having to facilitate team sessions these days. The upside for facilitators is that all input is captured and you no longer need a project administrator to sit and tediously capture stickies after a brown paper excercise. Boards can be shared, saved and exported for later use. These are just some of the basic capabilities.
What do you dislike about the product?
After signing up, the code took a while to arrive. The Google image search is currently disabled, which is a pain as text, icons and emojis no longer fill the need. Having to copy and paste from Google slows down the brainstorming process. If you do set your navigation mode to use either mouse or trackpad, you need to remember to reset if you changed. I still need to find my sweet spot in terms of zoom % when setting up a new board, but this will probably come with time and use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been able to gather input from a large team in a very short time using the sticky notes and what normally would have taken a few sessions over a couple of days, were achieved in an hour or 2.
Keeping to the time allocated with the use of the timer is effective to stay within the allocated meeting time. Participants who have missed a collaboration session could easily access the board after the fact and at a glance, pick up and add input. Recap at the next session is easy with all input being available from earlier sessions. It improves productivity and it sparks ideas being able to visualise the discussions throughout. Using the content from Miro in later presentations was very helpful and nothing had to be re-captured. Content remains familiar throughout the collaboration process to design & product.
Keeping to the time allocated with the use of the timer is effective to stay within the allocated meeting time. Participants who have missed a collaboration session could easily access the board after the fact and at a glance, pick up and add input. Recap at the next session is easy with all input being available from earlier sessions. It improves productivity and it sparks ideas being able to visualise the discussions throughout. Using the content from Miro in later presentations was very helpful and nothing had to be re-captured. Content remains familiar throughout the collaboration process to design & product.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't just look at Miro, sign up for the trial version and use it in a real collaboration session. Use it over a couple of days and with that, the benefits of the application will be evident. Read some reviews and input from current users and have a look at some youtube videos to see the extent to which Miro could be utilised in a variety of circumstances. Having worked with it for the first two weeks, I could not imagine working without Miro in the future. Uptake from others in the organisation has been great as a result.
Great product vision mapping and collaboration tool
What do you like best about the product?
It is extremely easy to use with great UX. The ability to collaborate with peers is perfect for product boarding and vision mapping. I used miro extensively in my product planning.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such that is missing. However I will definetly love more feature capabilities related to tables in miro. Right now, it is very basic and does not allow using tables effectively.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly being used for product planning, user story mapping, etc. But we have used miro for almost all phases of product dev, from sprint planning, to retro. This has helped in improving the alignment between teams.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great tool. I have used mural, jam board and others before, but this would be the best bet.
Game-changer in the remote facilitation space
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is so intuitive that everything becomes clear as soon as you use it. I love how modular Miro is with a wide selction of templates or through the community Miroverse which allow me to create highly engaging workshops. The timer (with music!), voting and summoning features are all my go-to's and I'm starting to use the selection of easily integrated apps available one workshop at a time!
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish we could have a "release followers" feature to stop people you've summoned.
I wish we had more visibility on which elements of the board are heavy and might cause longer load time or automatically resize them.
But nothing I dislike!
I wish we had more visibility on which elements of the board are heavy and might cause longer load time or automatically resize them.
But nothing I dislike!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
User Journey analysis to understand the user better, Product Ideation to get the most from your team at the same time, User Testing to easily capture feedback, User Onboarding flows to identify pain-points, hackathon/event planning, client/project planning, strategy development through mind-mapping to organise multiple information streams, Design Sprints to test ideas quickly on target users.... and campaign planning.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it to get to know the tool - start with a Lightning Decision Jam for a meeting or a team-building excercise with Build a Monster or Board Race it's the quickest way to get your team hands-on!
Amazing collaboration tool
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is an excellent tool for immediate online collaboration. The "infinite" whiteboard, the easy-to-use interface, and the simple but powerful tools it provides all make working with it a joy rather than a struggle - which is too often the case with powerful tools like this. One of my favorite features - which coincidentally, is also the feature that sometimes annoys me the most :) - is the ability to see each other mouse cursors while we're editing the same document. Although distracting, it can be instrumental in certain situations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Because Miro tries to be an all-purpose tool, its user interface can sometimes feel overly complex. Some features are overly emphasized (e.g. creating a Jira issue from a card) while others seem to be a bit neglected (e.g. manipulating the z-order of elements). We've also had some issues being able to see the results of a voting session. Having said that, these are very minor issues overall and can be easily overcome with a bit of practice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Miro for various team activities like brainstorming sessions, mind mapping, sprint retrospectives, software designs, flowcharts, gathering user feedback and even doing simple presentations. Even our organizational chart has a Miro board (although obviously, it's not the source of the data) simply because it makes view the organization - or parts of it - at a glance, a breeze.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try; it's easy and free.
Why I choose Miro
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Miro is the never-ending feature set that allows you to do just about anything. Most importantly, because I work on an all-remote team for software development, a whiteboard is indispensable. Miro does an amazing job at this. I can collaborate with my co-workers in real-time to quickly and easily express complex ideas that would never make sense with just words alone. Back to the feature set that Miro offers... Because it is so feature-rich, I can use it for a variety of tasks, from quickly sketching up ideas that are meant to only last the brainstorming session to drawing up complete system maps that get embedded in the documentation of the software. I guess to sum it all up, just about any activity that involves collaboration takes place in Miro: Class maps, sprint planning, user journey, story maps, or just plain whiteboarding.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish they had better shapes to create class maps. I still use Miro to do this, but it takes some effort to make the correct boxes that are required for a UML class map. Other than missing some pre-built shapes to make various types of diagraming easier, I think Miro does an excellent job.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem we solve with Miro is how to effectively collaborate with team members when everyone on the team is remote. Miro is perfect for this because it allows everyone to share and collaborate and plan simultaneously. And it just works. The most impactful aspect of Miro is that we can have a planning session that starts with whiteboarding, and then come back later and continue to refine what we are working on. Unlike a real whiteboard, you don't have to erase everything before moving on to planning the next feature. Having everything stick around helps us plan further out in advance and not lose anything that was talked about.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Miro works really well and you won't have to worry about data loss or the app crashing on you (has never happened to me thus far). Given that it's reliable software, it completely solves the problem of remote collaboration. Also, it is feature-rich; there are honestly features in Miro that I have not tried yet. I have been using Miro since it was RealtimeBoard and have gotten two different companies to purchase company accounts when they saw what I was doing with it. I always recommend Miro for a collaboration tool because I have been using it for so long, and it has never failed me and has all the features I need and more.
Awesome tool for visual collaboration in real time
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is the best tool I've used for visual collaboration in real time. The features just keep getting better and easier to use. Miro makes it possible for all team members—regardless of skill level—to participate in any project.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the features aren't as intuitive as they should be. For instance, I couldn't figure out how to get back to the simple arrow select tool from the hand tool until a colleague told me; this should be a quick and easy task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My team and I can collaborate on wireframes and other projects in real time. Anyone can start using Miro right away. It's mostly intuitive and user-friendly to the point that very little prior software knowledge is required to realize a range of benefits.
Awesome tool
What do you like best about the product?
As a service designer, I can't imagine working without this tool anymore. For some activities, it even replaced some Adobe programs. It's an excellent tool for workshops and online collaboration.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not a particular thing that I dislike about Miro, but sometimes clients don't want to work with it due to security reasons (and that's a problem since I believe there's no good alternative that is more secure).
What would make Miro even better:
- When you bring people to you on the board, there's no 'release button' to let them unfollow you (competitor Mural has this feature)
- The Adobe XD plugin is a nice idea. However, I don't use it since the resolution is not good enough. It would be great if Miro could improve this, so that I can start using this plugin, which would make my work a whole lot easier.
What would make Miro even better:
- When you bring people to you on the board, there's no 'release button' to let them unfollow you (competitor Mural has this feature)
- The Adobe XD plugin is a nice idea. However, I don't use it since the resolution is not good enough. It would be great if Miro could improve this, so that I can start using this plugin, which would make my work a whole lot easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Facilitating online workshops would be much harder without Miro. It's a very accessible tool, which makes it great for online collaboration.
Great experience with Miro
What do you like best about the product?
It's a very intuitive and colaborative tool, that even the least experienced people in our team can easily learn. It's great to be able to share documents that everyone can work on and edit in real time.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are so many templates to work from, which is great, but most of the time I usually go with a blank one to start from. That being said, I find it hard to look for templates that ajust to my needs (but maybe I just need to look more into it?).
One other thing ir that I would like to costumize the size of the sticky notes,
One other thing ir that I would like to costumize the size of the sticky notes,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The need to have a collaborative tool where everyone can work on, share and discuss ideas at the same time. It's very quick to open and work from, even with more people working on the same document. That way, we can be having remote calls while everyone is working on Miro, and not be sharing the screen to show some specific document (that helps with connection issues and the trouble of having to not down ideas from everyone, as each person can write down their own inputs).
Miro, an excellent platform to improve your team work
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is helpful for team work because it allows your team to be working at the same time in the same board. Further, you can communicate with your coworkers by chat or video call. Moreover, there are sticky notes and diagrams available, which facilitate work. Also, Miro sends you mails about your teams work at an specific board.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is hard to find downsides in Miro, since it is a great tool. I cannot find any.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Miro is helping me to organize my coworkers, since it allows everyone to see what are we working on, avoiding confusion and work to be done twice. Further, charts can be made on everyone's tasks, which has increased my team performance because everyone does what is supposed to.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is your best choice, you will learn easily how to use it, just have to read each instruction and navigate in the boards.
A amazing tool to replace Visio, LucidChart and drive great Jam Sessions
What do you like best about the product?
It is difficult to say what I love the most about Miro. I started by using the MindMap diagram but IMO it really shines at driving efficient Jam sessions. It can handle effortlessly 10+ users. We've used it successfully to do Domain Driven Design for large systems. I think that they've nailed down the keyboard shortcuts: they are intuitive and allow to speed up data entry vs other tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Things work very nicely in Miro but occasionally I've noticed a drop in performance when the diagrams get very large. Miro could also have better support of tags, for example by providing a search capability.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
* MindMap done right
* JamSessions & collaborative whiteboarding at scale
* JamSessions & collaborative whiteboarding at scale
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