Miro
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Great for account planning
What do you like best about the product?
Miro allows me to create linkages betwen different aspects of an account or a campaign - connecting people, marketing assets, problem statements, use cases, articles I come across, etc. Much more powerful and flexible than any CRM (or Excel).
What do you dislike about the product?
A somewhat steep learning curve. Since "account planning" isn't a use case envisioned by the vendor, there isn't much enablement around it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instead of spending hours putting together an account plan that no one will ever read/use, Miro is always open on my screen! I can create and update account plans and see - at a glance - what are the critical relationships between contacts, problems, and marketing assets.
Great for collaboration or anything at all
What do you like best about the product?
I like how I can collaborate with all my stakeholders. As a Product Manager, this is essential. Aside from my PM role, I used it when I interviewed at my current company instead of using powerpoint or google slides. I used Miro due to the flexibility. I use it for nearly everything! LOVE miro.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the settings are disabled when one is not the board owner. For example, I wasn't able to duplicate a board unless I had edit access. It can also be hard to remember where certain features are, such as how to create a template from a board. Also, the icons can be confusing since they dont have a text description underneath. I wish the icons had text underneath.
Also! It recently changed my mouse settings and in order to drag around the board, I have to use the right click on my mouse, which I dont like having to do. i haven't spent the time to figure out how to change this.
Also! It recently changed my mouse settings and in order to drag around the board, I have to use the right click on my mouse, which I dont like having to do. i haven't spent the time to figure out how to change this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Here's what I use Miro for:
Interviews
Research findings reviews
Retro
Building a team mission and goal for the year
It benefits are that multiple people can be in the the board at once
Interviews
Research findings reviews
Retro
Building a team mission and goal for the year
It benefits are that multiple people can be in the the board at once
From abstract to tangible
What do you like best about the product?
The overall user experience is impressive. The tools, how it works, and the layout make it easy for anyone to use and create meaningful outcomes.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would improve the background noise supression in the video chat for a better experience when doing team meetings or workshops
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The infinite canvas is one of my favorite things about miro; it makes me feel like there is no limit to my imagination or the things I create. It is the one place where I collect data, analize, define, create, design, present, you name it! Having everything in the same place allows me to go back and forth without missing the perspective of the proyect.
An amazing platform to work, think, and play!
What do you like best about the product?
I love the collaboration features available in Miro. The ability to create boards and give access to others is what sets Miro apart from others. No other platform I have used combines an intuitive virtual whiteboard/mindmapping interface with live collaboration features as seamlessly as Miro. Work asynchronously and simultaneously with ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost would probably be the main issue with Miro. While they do have a free tier it can be limiting. I hope with scale, prices can come down. Third-party plugins also can give you some trouble sometimes. While this is not Miro's fault entirely, I think better developer documentation and support would help eliminate these rare incoinviences.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As someone who works entirely virtually, Miro solves many of the collaboration constraints of not having a physical office space and not being able to interact with coworkers in person. With Miro, my organization is able to brainstorm, project-manage, share ideas, and celebrate in a virtual space the same as if we were sharing a board room together.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Evaluate your need and users to determine what tier you would likely need. Use the free tier as much as possible to help get users comfortable with the features and interface. Check out the many templates to help you get started. You should also see what plugins are available and which correspond with other software you currently use and how you can integrate the two. Don't for get to use the features that make it fun like the emojis.
As close to being in a room with a whiteboard as you can get remotely
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is easy to use, share and collaborate. With remote work being a new normal, this is as close to being locked in a room with a whiteboard as you can get! Other competitors, such as Figma and Mural, are good, but Miro, to me, is more user-friendly and more robust when it comes to what you can do within the platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
I love using this with my software development teams, and the Jira integration is helpful, but it isn't as robust as I would like (syncing comments, etc.). Also, having some more pre-built shapes would help create more robust designs within Miro and minimize the need to use other tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Remote collaboration is challenging, especially with each person wanting to engage differently. With Miro, we can collaborate before a call, while we are on a call, or without a call entirely. You can have remote brainstorming sessions and workshops with ease. Miro being a virtual whiteboard also means that team members can go off to the side, work something out, and then bring it the group.
Innovation at Miro keeps the product relevant, and leaves the users amazed
What do you like best about the product?
How it is adaptive to how users might want to use it on tablets with styluses; I was pretty amazed. It is now handy when I am working remotely, and we are trying to collaborate and have some quick brainstorming sessions. Having the ability to capture "writings" opens up the collaborative-ness.
What do you dislike about the product?
The share functionality. It needs to be more streamlined, or rather, more intuitive to use. Having two different options to capture a particular "link" has confused various users around me, and the wrong link sometimes gets distributed around. Which I think can be avoided by streamlining.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Process and flow visualisations. The abundance of shapes, colours, arrow types, and also the ability to write text on arrows have made it easier to create flows and processes on Miro as comprehensively as possible. Just passing a board with this flow has made communication across teams so much easier and saved time and effort in verbally explaining them in calls.
The comments feature has helped in collaboration and gathering feedback, and consolidating them on the board directly (rather than having them on various messaging platforms).
Also the follow feature - following another person who is online. So much easier to be on the same page (literally :D)
The comments feature has helped in collaboration and gathering feedback, and consolidating them on the board directly (rather than having them on various messaging platforms).
Also the follow feature - following another person who is online. So much easier to be on the same page (literally :D)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you like to explain better, collaborate better by "writing" than typing; miro + a tablet with a stylus has been a boon for me in terms of productivity and visualizing my thoughts.
Collaboration Creator!
What do you like best about the product?
Ample ways to collaborate with teammates in clever, unique ways. I love that you can see all the users in a board and what they're each contributing to it. It makes the collaboration process so seamless! My favorite part of it is the use of sticky notes and other creative items to organize different categories of thoughts when brainstorming a new strategy or project, or different processes and requirements for a project.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's great for what we use it for, which is mainly brainstorming. I'd love to see some kind of way to turn that brainstorming into project plans, maybe through an integration. Sometimes it can feel a bit overwhelming if too many people are in the board at once or even at different times, so I wish it was a bit easier to track who is who and what each person is doing, as well as what the changes they are making are. Similar to Google docs or Google sheets and the opportunity to track changes there so we can see who did what and when. I do like, however, that you can show or hide user cursors so at least that part doesn't seem too busy if too many people are using a single board at one time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're solving the problem of cross-functional collaboration and creative brainstorming. Whenever we have a large new project or are planning for a new quarter, Miro is our favorite tool to get some "hands-on" work in! We like to organize group brainstorm sessions and use the sticky note feature to add our ideas under various categories. Doing this in a group setting makes it easy to virtually collaborate and give people time to think about their ideas before having to share them. We've also used Miro to categorize responses to surveys and organize them into similar clusters, which helps us then create content around those clusters that we otherwise wouldn't have been able to see without it. For example, we recently used it beyond our quarterly planning needs to help identify the most talked about responses in an open-question survey so that we could analyze the qualitative data in a more visual way, rather than trying to organize it all in a Google sheet. This makes Mireo not only a wonderful tool for teams using it to brainstorm and collaborate cross-functionally, but also a great tool for content creators who are looking to organize their thoughts in a more cohesive way.
It's also just great for team bonding events and creative ways to see different things about other team members that you wouldn't know otherwise. We recently used it as a team bonding activity during our quarterly "hang out" to identify fun facts about our fellow colleagues. Thus, Miro has many use cases and would be appreciated by product, marketing, engineering, and other teams across an organization.
It's also just great for team bonding events and creative ways to see different things about other team members that you wouldn't know otherwise. We recently used it as a team bonding activity during our quarterly "hang out" to identify fun facts about our fellow colleagues. Thus, Miro has many use cases and would be appreciated by product, marketing, engineering, and other teams across an organization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend others to use Miro because it's useful across organizations and teams for both planning and collaboration purposes. The app is great for many use cases: specifically, you can use it for quarterly planning sessions to get everyone aligned on your team's plans for the quarter. You can also use it for content organization if you work in a content role that requires ideation or organization of various format and content thoughts. Finally, you can use it for team bonding events in clever and creative ways.
We're teaching this platform in our leadership courses as the digital means for collaboration.
What do you like best about the product?
Concurrent interactivity among users. The share feature is VERY helpful. I like the flexible, agile platform for capturing and curating relevant content.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve necessary to master the platform is the biggest hurdle. Perhaps the board tools can be progressively unlocked or enabled as users complete skill-group training modules. The Badge program will be a GREAT pathway for our students. We will not invest in all the learning procedures as in previous classes. We will now direct them to complete the first badge and submit the receipt and image. Can you capture frames in presentation mode as a video? Capturing a presentation directly to videl might be a helpful integration as well. Also, I think users need to adjust the gridline resolution. That way, spacing frames based on gridlines is more apparent and user-friendly. Perhaps there can be a "snap to" feature that auto-sizes frames to gridlines.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We teach how to capture ideation for event planning, strategic planning, and process documentation. These are the primary applications we teach.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is the best, most agile, and most flexible collaboration platform in the industry.
Power Point but infinitely more powerful and flexible. Better visualize complex concepts.
What do you like best about the product?
With Miro you work on an infinite canvas. This allows you to more easily understand the relationship between concepts or stages of a project. Miro also offers integration with commonly used apps such as Asana tasks. This enables users to work smarter by not having to replicate certain work.
1. Infinite canvas - stop scrolling through PowerPoint slides to find the correct content. This provides for a more agile meeting. Powerpoint is too rigid of a format.
2. Collaborative meetings. People are joining meetings and viewing shared screen content on different-sized displays, resulting in people asking you to zoom in on specific content that is being discussed. With Miro everyone can control the view of the content that is being shared. They can zoom in and out and skip around.
3. Track changes. Miro automatically tracks and provides the ability to revert changes.
1. Infinite canvas - stop scrolling through PowerPoint slides to find the correct content. This provides for a more agile meeting. Powerpoint is too rigid of a format.
2. Collaborative meetings. People are joining meetings and viewing shared screen content on different-sized displays, resulting in people asking you to zoom in on specific content that is being discussed. With Miro everyone can control the view of the content that is being shared. They can zoom in and out and skip around.
3. Track changes. Miro automatically tracks and provides the ability to revert changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Looking forward to the development and maturation of more tools and features.
1. Would like the ability to lock all groups of objects. Certain object elements cannot be grouped or locked with other types.
2. Increase the UI for ingesting Asana tasks. Current UI is limited in width and search functionality which makes it challenging to locate the correct project.
3. Would like the ability to create layers similar to Adobe Photoshop in order to simplify views during presentations.
1. Would like the ability to lock all groups of objects. Certain object elements cannot be grouped or locked with other types.
2. Increase the UI for ingesting Asana tasks. Current UI is limited in width and search functionality which makes it challenging to locate the correct project.
3. Would like the ability to create layers similar to Adobe Photoshop in order to simplify views during presentations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Meetings are faster and clearer. A picture tells a thousand words, and a well diagramed Miro board gets team members synced up faster.
Whenever discussions are brought up, and people are not aligned or coming to an understanding, Miro provides the ability to quickly and collaboratively diagram out the solution.
Meeting attendees are also able to add comments and notes to voice their opinions.
Whenever discussions are brought up, and people are not aligned or coming to an understanding, Miro provides the ability to quickly and collaboratively diagram out the solution.
Meeting attendees are also able to add comments and notes to voice their opinions.
Overall Miro is a great planning, designing, solutioning product
What do you like best about the product?
I love how Miro provides a slew of templates to fit almost any need. It seems like there is a template available for nearly anything I need to do as a technical product owner. I use it for Agile sprint planning, breaking features down with mind maps, integrating with Jira, and so much more. Utilizing the features available in Miro has eliminated the need to do some items in varying products.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the interfaces can be a little difficult to learn, but with a bit of playing around, you can usually figure it out. A recent update removed the biggest interface issue I've faced by changing how to move around the boards.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a Technical Product Owner working with an Agile team, the ability to preplan but still pivot quickly is so much easier with design boards that can be linked, imported, and shared with anyone. We utilize these dashboards internally and share them with our clients and vendors with the added benefit of controlling access as viewers or contributors.
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