Miro
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A must have collaboration tool
What do you like best about the product?
Miro allows quick creation and collaboration with team members with just the right amount of tools. Having icons in the app is perfect for throwing together ideas and mapping UI flows. This tool allows me to really put it all down and then organize and get my ideas into a better form before I invest in doing detail work - it saves me hours or redoing mockups. Having integrations with other apps like Sketch really help this fit into my workflow.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some things like multi select have a little learning curve. Need to have a way to recolor icons for use in UI mockups.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Miro solves the problem of taking the first idea of a project and mapping it out and creating wireframe design. It's made us more free to be creative. The app doesn't get in the way and allows us to brainstorm and bluesky ideas and then come to decisions. It's a great time saver and also let's us show stakeholders our thought process without them feeling this is final design ideas.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Miro is a great tool, easy to use and helps problem solving. It goes beyond basic mindmapping and really allows you to engage your team and stakeholders and "show your work".
Fantastic tool for Design Documents and Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use editing tools. Wide variety of templates and intuitive UI. It's also easy to collaborate since as soon as I become an expert (which happens in say 3/4 uses), I can show around another colleague and quickly ramp them up too.
The color schemas are really great.
Ease of Reuse of templates and a good set of shapes/flow-chart components and easy to edit text shapes.
The color schemas are really great.
Ease of Reuse of templates and a good set of shapes/flow-chart components and easy to edit text shapes.
What do you dislike about the product?
"Export as image" has very few options. I've to download 4 different types before figuring out which would be of required clarity, and often even after exploring it's not as good as I expect.
It'll be great to have more templates targetted towards Software Engineering.
It'd also be great ot have a direct integration with GoogleDocs/Notion. There seems to be a share option (a link for sharing Miro directly but not onto a Doc), and there's also a Save to Google Drive button, but no direct way to embed a frame inside a Google Doc. So I'm forced to make changes in the Miro app, export it as an image, and save it to my Google Doc. Issue is sometimes, there are small changes that I want to make (like adding an extra word inside a box), and I have to repeat the entire cycle - this would have been easier if there was option to embed Miro inside Google doc, and I could edit it there directly.
It'll be great to have more templates targetted towards Software Engineering.
It'd also be great ot have a direct integration with GoogleDocs/Notion. There seems to be a share option (a link for sharing Miro directly but not onto a Doc), and there's also a Save to Google Drive button, but no direct way to embed a frame inside a Google Doc. So I'm forced to make changes in the Miro app, export it as an image, and save it to my Google Doc. Issue is sometimes, there are small changes that I want to make (like adding an extra word inside a box), and I have to repeat the entire cycle - this would have been easier if there was option to embed Miro inside Google doc, and I could edit it there directly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Design Docs and Presentations for complex Software Designs and Algorithms - I make these quickly using Miro, and export to required docs
Also, I use the same frame for collaboration between team mates
I have gotten a lot of complements from my teammates for increasing the clarity in design documents. The benefit is compounded because when I use Miro for one document, the fact that I can re-use the shapes/flow charts etc I created, helps me quickly spin-up another set of diagrams. This encourages me to invest some time in my initial designs - make them even better.
Also, I use the same frame for collaboration between team mates
I have gotten a lot of complements from my teammates for increasing the clarity in design documents. The benefit is compounded because when I use Miro for one document, the fact that I can re-use the shapes/flow charts etc I created, helps me quickly spin-up another set of diagrams. This encourages me to invest some time in my initial designs - make them even better.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
*Try out the tutorials (even if the tool is easy to use), you'll see a couple of cool new tricks that can speed up your workflow
* They have a trial period, so if you are unsure, use it for the trial period and then switch, I am sure you'll love it!
* They have a trial period, so if you are unsure, use it for the trial period and then switch, I am sure you'll love it!
A perfect e-teaching tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like best the usability of the blank page, the many different features, the plug ins, and I love the PDF download possibility to keep a trace of the work while changing to a new PDF. It allows to keep some tracability of the changes and historicity.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm not too fond of the limits of the free option and I would prefer another way to see others' presence on the board. Often it masks the text behind the mouse because they do not know how to use the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Miro both as a whiteboard, a slider, a small-group playground, and a visualizer. It allows me to teach from aboard, manage my teams, and organize long-term projects. I win time, I avoid multiplying tools, and I keep an eye on my collaborators' work. I love looking at what they do all together at the same time. They like the way of working on Miro.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take enough time to manipulate Miro with the collaborators before launching the principal activity of your day so they can acclimate themselves with it.
The number 1 BEST tool for virtual brainstorming and feature scoping, BY FAR!
What do you like best about the product?
Their infinite canvas is the best - you aren't restrained by a pre-sized document that doesn't work for you. Stickies are the best of any whiteboarding tool I've used. And their integrations - with Jira, Google, and other products make it super extensible.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be great if they had some kind of calendar template or feature. I do a lot of schedule ideating with teams and a pre-set calendar would be amazing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work with teams to have blue sky conversations around product design. With its infinite canvas and many useful tools, Miro really allows for open conversations that help our teams to build amazing things truly collaboratively and without restraint.
Not sure how I would run virtual meetings and workshops without Miro in my toolkit
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy the real-time collaboration and getting to see how people contribute in real time. The timer feature and voting are great feature adds for workshop facilitators.
What do you dislike about the product?
Frames are great, but sometimes can be hard to find things when you have so many of them! Maybe this is user error, though, and I need to learn how to better set-up and organize my boards :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
virtual collaboration, brainstorming, just getting ideas out and on "paper," research analysis, workflow diagramming, real-time collaboration that gets the entire team involved and their hands dirty
Really Amazing Tool!
What do you like best about the product?
Miro increases our productivity, allowing people to collaborate in real time. Besides this, we use it a lot with our customers in several sessions and workshops. It really gives us a competitive difference!
What do you dislike about the product?
I have only two improve points:
1. When you have more than ten users using the board at the same time and with several objects, the board starts to sync all the time
2. When you lock a group of several objects, you can not unlock them one by one. This option could be helpful when you have templates and you have to make minimum changes.
1. When you have more than ten users using the board at the same time and with several objects, the board starts to sync all the time
2. When you lock a group of several objects, you can not unlock them one by one. This option could be helpful when you have templates and you have to make minimum changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To overcome the pandemic and improve the networking around the different sites where people live.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
None
Transformed the way I collaborate
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is a beautiful, intuitive tool that allows us to collaborate and brainstorm virtually in a way that we couldn't before. We use it even when we meet in-person now. It goes beyond collaboration as well - I use it to build out proposals, presentations, and project plans. It allows me to visualize my work, which I just wasn't doing before when I relied on Word documents.
What do you dislike about the product?
As intuitive as Miro is, it does have a bit of a learning curve. You always have to teach clients how to use it before you can really jump into the work. There is still way more that I have to learn about this app as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Miro has given me the ability to visualize my thoughts and ideas and to more effectively brainstorm and get input from other team members in a safe and honest way.
Collaborating on a process flow design couldn't be easier
What do you like best about the product?
The interface itself is excellent. Being able to zoom in and out of different parts of a board works fantastic. The ability to see in real-time what others are doing and where they're working is a massive plus for collaborating remotely.
What do you dislike about the product?
Search functionality can be a bit overwhelming when your board gets to a certain complexity level, and your search results are all over the place.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The logical step forward from a simple video call, is real-time collaboration, which Miro does very well. Instead of going back and forth on flow designs, just setup a time to collaborate in real-time and get it done!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you understand licensing pricing.
Makes Remote Collaboration Easy & Fun
What do you like best about the product?
To pull everyone's attention/viewport to the presenter's view is a giant lifesaver to make remote sessions easier to facilitate. The voting add-on and the music inside the timer make everything lighter when sessions can be energy-draining and intense. The wireframe tools helped my team collaborate with non-design stakeholders bringing everyone's ideas to the table easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve for new users can be challenging, especially for those who don't use online collaboration tools often.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Facilitate Design Sprints, Create all types of canvas for team collaboration, bring together different teams to work together remotely. Unify stakeholder's visions and business rules for particular projects like an Online Checkout for University, Work Sessions to Optimize UI Components of a Design System for Telecom company, Service Blueprints, Customer Journeys, User Flows, and User Experience Mapping in general.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Always consider some time to learn and teach essential Miro functions to everyone that will be using it, especially if you are planning on facilitating collaborative sessions with stakeholders.
Really like the tool, started to using it for so many different things
What do you like best about the product?
It's fun. At the start of March 2020 i knew Miro existed, alongside some other tools like it. When Covid-19 hit I, as so many, had to change my work-modes. After trying out different Tools and Apps like Miro, Miro sticked. It's fun, it's simple, it's easy to teach others how to use it. I am using it for Workshops with clients, as well as for my lectures at universites. One sideeffect is, that I stopped using any presentation software. It isn't necessary any more. And I appreciate the new features, that are added constantly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it's unstable, but usually fixed quite fast. I had one situation where Miro wasn't starting and clients couldn't join the board. That was not specifically wonderful, but something one has to keep in mind when using digital tools - I used that for some teaching. ;) At another time the sorting of the frames didn't work. That gave me some headache, cause I had to sort the pics in the exported PDF. But that was fixed soon after and the next day it worked again. So not many complaints from my side. :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Interaction within workshops and teaching: Miro supports me in my usual teaching style, i.e., interacting a lot, creating different settings for learners, and staying flexible. Another aspect is that it supports modular planning and design: My preparation changed a lot during the last year. It's more modular and spontaneous, it has to be that way, cause usually, one has less time when working digitaly.
And it's much more fun for the participants. They all like it and say that it is such a nice difference being able to do something instead of staring into a videoconferencing tool.
And it's much more fun for the participants. They all like it and say that it is such a nice difference being able to do something instead of staring into a videoconferencing tool.
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