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Miro has changed the way I work
What do you like best about the product?
I like the countless possibilities to live out my creativity and to be able to use it for my clients and workshops. I also work much more interactively with my clients today. I use Miro very often to collaborate with my clients asynchronously. This opens up new possibilities for collaboration and increases the quality of the results.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it happens that my clients also use a Miro account. In such business relationships we work on both accounts. Unfortunately, I cannot temporarily connect these accounts even though both participants are licensed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Miro to collaborate with my clients. As an alternative to flip charts and face-to-face meetings. This involves different problems such as simple brainstorming sessions or more complex workshops for retrospectives or, for example, the development of strategies. I also use it for trainings, which I conduct online in groups. It provides an excellent opportunity to start the collaboration before the actual meeting. This increases the quality and is more efficient.
Miro is a fantastic resource!
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is such an intuitive and easy-to-use tool, which in my role as Head of Customer experience, makes customer mapping so straightforward!
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, depending on how big the board is I've created, it can be tricky to include this all in an easy-to-share photo or PDF format.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Customer mapping has been such a win since using Miro - it keeps all of the team on the same page, ensuring that our efforts are placed in the right places in order to prevent churn and ensure engagement.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try and integrate this into your organizational culture so everyone is using the same tool and productivity can be increased across the board.
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.
Great collaboration tool, makes discussion and group work so efficient!
What do you like best about the product?
So intuitive to use, people tend to pick up how to use the platform straight away. Along with this, some of the pre-made tools (like storyboarding) are fantastic, making work even more efficient
What do you dislike about the product?
My login details are not remembered on the desktop app! I have to click multiple times, and enter my email address from scratch each time! There are sometimes issues for users to access boards, or boards not to be easily find-able after you have finished working on them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly when starting new projects, they are great places to bring everyone together (while remote) and share information/work on next steps. Definitely more productive with this tool!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
definitely a strong recommendation to use the tool - after users are set up with accounts and familair with the interface, it's definitely a great tool!
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.
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