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More than a whiteboard
What do you like best about the product?
For years taking notes on paper or stickies was fruitless. They would either get lost in the shuffle or I couldn't easily make meaningful connections to content days or weeks later. I love that Miro allows me to collect & reorganize my thoughts & information in a way that is meaningful to me. Miro has become an absolute staple in my personal & professional life.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would love some basic drawing tools, like InVision Freehand. The shapes tools are nice, but I prefer working on a drawing tablet/iPad, & drawing is an intuitive way for me to work. Drawing also communicates the "roughness" of a concept, which can be very beneficial in my line of work.
I wish there were more repeatable elements (ie; the ability to create symbols).
Tags are also a place of untapped potential. I have a hard time using the Kanban boards etc in any extensive way because the tags seem largely ornamental.
I wish there were more repeatable elements (ie; the ability to create symbols).
Tags are also a place of untapped potential. I have a hard time using the Kanban boards etc in any extensive way because the tags seem largely ornamental.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaboration & Organization. As a long time Mural user (I still have to use Mural at work) I find that Miro is far more intuitive, fluid, & flexible. I'm using it to share work with friends & peers, get feedback on work, map experiences, collect ideas & notes, make connections to notes & thoughts from months ago.
Transformed how well we work collaboratively while remote working
What do you like best about the product?
Miro Academy - it is simple to learn the system and to train newbies with ease. I learned the tool very quickly and have found my team all had very few issues getting up and running. Generally very intuitive, with a fantastci interface for tools, the main board and navigation of where you are on the board.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes easy to move things in error (learn how to use 'lock' feature!)
Had to to play around to learn how 'frames' work in terms of whether deleting frames impacts the content within it (it doesn't!) Sometimes have issues making sure I have selected all content to move from one place to another. Have occasionally left behind some locked items that were not easy to spot were locked into position
Had to to play around to learn how 'frames' work in terms of whether deleting frames impacts the content within it (it doesn't!) Sometimes have issues making sure I have selected all content to move from one place to another. Have occasionally left behind some locked items that were not easy to spot were locked into position
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working remotely, it's wonderful to have a virtual whiteboard we can all see and contribute to. And no transcribing from Post-Its to online platforms! Allows us to run workshops easily with all parties working from home. And the fact it's (kind of) 'infinite' means it's easy to store a lot of useful project info in a single place, easily accessible via "frames' to get to where you need to go on the board quickly. We use our board every day!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to learn via Miro Academy, when some features are not fully intuitive. I learned the basics very quickly. And as you can start with a no-cost trial, you can give it a go risk-free. I have a bunch of Miro fans on my project!
One of the best tools for remote collaborations, brainstorms and group dynamics.
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ready-made Templates, where you can find and use well-designed layouts that will amaze your audience. And I love the possibility to see other people's cursor, where they are, and what they are doing. It's like being God's feeling: you are omnipresent and omniscient.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the price is expensive pricing for freelancers and lonely professionals. Sometimes we need only a single-day use, due to our class assignments or clients' needs. So, one suggestion is, instead of a monthly payment, the possibility to have a pay-per-use. When we talk about features and stuff, I have no complaints at all. The Miro team has put together a very well-designed software and mobile app. I highly recommend it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I make people who watch my lectures interact together and LEAN FORWARD, being more active instead of just leaving the camera open and listening to the content I'm presenting. I love to make people work with each other, and they seem to have no difficulty at all, even if this is their very first use.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would stop looking around and give it a try to use Miro for your team or clients.
This software is designed in a way that, even before you knew you would need something, they already have the answer. They have templates, stable and fast infra, tons of features that make your task easy to be done.
Go ahead. Use it and be happy.
This software is designed in a way that, even before you knew you would need something, they already have the answer. They have templates, stable and fast infra, tons of features that make your task easy to be done.
Go ahead. Use it and be happy.
Miro is an excellent tool for online collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Miro makes it easy to facilitate a workshop with a large number of people. It works seamlessly without lag with collaborators on the board and provides many ways for collaborators to follow along and get creative with contributions. I really liked the ability to integrate my presentation slides directly into Miro and be able to navigate between frames very easily. I also like the ability to be able to track anyone on the board or direct them to where I am on the board when talking about specific items. I can see this becoming very useful as well as we learn how to integrate our other tools with it, such as Jira. Miro has quickly become our go-to tool for all things collaboration. In some ways, I can see it become even more efficient with brainstorming than physically being in the same room with everyone. Also being able to see what has changed on the board since the last session has also been helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some suggestions for improvement: It would be great to be able to turn off the ability to draw arrows to connect between objects. I have often accidentally dragged out arrows from sticky notes when I simply wanted to move them around. I also struggled with dot voting in the past because I would prepare the dots beforea workshop, but as participants placed down sticky notes and it came to voting, participants would take a dot and try to put it on top of a sticky note, but because the sticky notes were created after the dots, the dots would automatically be hidden underneath the sticky notes. I know I can circumvent this by just properly using the voting tool, so it's not a big deal. I simply wasn't aware that would be the behavior at the time and ran into that snag during the workshop.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest problem Miro is solving for us is the ability to collaborate and brainstorm with our teams while being remote. We have slowly been exploring the many features Miro offers and have found that it can be very easy to communicate things to our teammates by copying screens in our browser or web apps and pasting them into the Miro board. This is how we were able to quickly identify UI elements in our organization's existing products and compile them together on the Miro board.
Great remote collaboration tool
What do you like best about the product?
I love that you can see the cursors, making it feel like you are all together, a challenge of remote work. The fact that we can link it to Jira, use Planning Poker and a timer, use the same board for more than one frame (similar discussion topics all in one board, for example), make use of the templates, and create as many boards as we need are all key to Miro's usability.
What do you dislike about the product?
The controls are sometimes clunky, like when trying to add text to a sticky but accidentally creating a new one instead. There has been a learning curve for everyone in not grabbing the wrong thing and moving it, adding the wrong type of sticky by accident, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In our new all-remote work life, without the ease of standing around a whiteboard together, it's really important to have a tool like Miro where we can brainstorm and plan, and then record and keep a record of what we discussed. We've used it for Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Kanband and Scrum Boards, story mapping, roadmapping, and more.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are having any trouble using Miro, keep at it, as it really benefits from trial and error and repeated use. You can always fix something if you move it by accident.
Best Collaboration Product
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about Miro is the ability to synchronously and asynchronously work with your team anywhere in the world at any given time and everyone is on the same page, always. Email, chat, task tracking software always means something gets buried in the long chains of back and forth, Miro is totally different. MIro makes everything visual instead of textual, placing your company in the seat of the customer vs the strategist. Miro helps clarify the objective of a project so the final product reflects the team's goals, not just the loudest person in a meeting or the person who spams the inbox the most. Miro keeps adding features and they deliver them in a really nice way on the platform. The new video tool allows everyone to just be on miro instead of searching through email for the call invite.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of templates available on the platform but Miro could be even more powerful if there were thousands of more templates available to the users. This would really help users who want to use Miro for everything be able to instead of not having the time to set up a board from scratch.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Brainstorming, Product planning, team collaboration, efficiency with the timer, process documentation, yearly and quarterly planning.
Miro has a timer feature and it keeps everyone on the call on task and present. Virtual meetings are meandering at best without the Miro timer.
We were working remotely for about 2 years prior to finding Miro. Miro energized the team around creating and launching products.
So many employees would create documents and processes in their heads and nobody could fill their seats on a sick day. Miro helped us document all the job functions in the company with easy to read visual aids and endless notes. The limitlessness of Miro allows for small and massive projects all to happen on a single platform.
Miro has a timer feature and it keeps everyone on the call on task and present. Virtual meetings are meandering at best without the Miro timer.
We were working remotely for about 2 years prior to finding Miro. Miro energized the team around creating and launching products.
So many employees would create documents and processes in their heads and nobody could fill their seats on a sick day. Miro helped us document all the job functions in the company with easy to read visual aids and endless notes. The limitlessness of Miro allows for small and massive projects all to happen on a single platform.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The user base of Miro is very collaborative by nature. Reach out to other users if you need help, they are your best allies.
Seriously the best white-boarding app I've ever used.
What do you like best about the product?
The app has a super intuitive design, and they update it regularly. I love that it feels like actual whiteboarding but better because you are not wasting postit notes and cards. Also the dot voting is super simple. I like that i can call all the users on the app to my location and we can turn on voice and just talk about it. I also love how simple it is to see the changes that have taken place while ive been gone.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard to get someone to talk with about your plan. The plans can be confusing. I keep having to add people and remove them. They make it easy enough, but it's hard to get a handle on how many users you need and when you should use the flexible people plan or what. I cant wait for them to make the boards available offline. Thats one issue I've had for a while. Other than that there are some small improvements they can do but its I feel like we need to give them time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can hold meetings with different teams, do all kinds of design and product planning with Miro. I have personal and business boards, and it's easy to share boards. We use it for idea generation, sharing ideas and designs, there are so many areas taht we are working in and with Miro all of those ideas can live in one place and be linked to, so sharing them and editing them is super simple. It even allows for bookmarking to the originial site. I have used a bunch of other apps before this, but none have been so intuitive.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just try it and you will see that its the best white-boarding app on the market. Its simple to use, easy to onboard and collaborate. You will wonder what you were doing before Miro. I have turned a bunch of people onto it and all are satisfied.
Powerful, simple, logical
What do you like best about the product?
MIro enables real-time collaboration via a "smart whiteboard" type interface. And it is wicked smart! The tools are intuitive and alway operate as expected even though you may have nested and grouped diagrams and text. It's expansive canvas allows huge diagrams and supports more than ample room to express ideas, status, results and so on. Also, the free tier is plenty powerful for all but the most demanding teams. I honestly don't know how they do it. Bravo.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard to come up with something that I would request a change on. Sometimes the background moves when I want to move the foreground, but they have handy locking features for this and I doubt one could come up with a more obvious interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I design apps with miro and coordinate teams based around the world. It's a big win.
Best virtual whiteboard
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use
Others can access without all needing a license
Temporary licenses available if greater access by guests is needed
Flexibility to create whatever I want that I could create in a 2-dimensional environment in person:
Paste forms and brainstorm over the top of them
Build process maps with arrows that stay connected
Create PICK lists
Create Kanban boards
Have others vote on the items in a brainstorm confidentially
Easy import from a spreadsheet
Easy export of data in multiple formats
Save and categorizing boards
Users can continue to access boards after the meeting to brainstorm or review
I can lock boards or control access
I get notification if a board is changed via email
Others can access without all needing a license
Temporary licenses available if greater access by guests is needed
Flexibility to create whatever I want that I could create in a 2-dimensional environment in person:
Paste forms and brainstorm over the top of them
Build process maps with arrows that stay connected
Create PICK lists
Create Kanban boards
Have others vote on the items in a brainstorm confidentially
Easy import from a spreadsheet
Easy export of data in multiple formats
Save and categorizing boards
Users can continue to access boards after the meeting to brainstorm or review
I can lock boards or control access
I get notification if a board is changed via email
What do you dislike about the product?
some shortcut keys are difficult to remember
some things seem to act differently for different users. Mouse scroll zooms in and out for me while for others it scrolls board up/down.
I tend to click on a sticky and try to type, but I need to double-click on it
Wish it would work in IE11
I wish adding a thumbnail of a region of the board as the cover for the board was quick and easy
I would like to see a 2-minute tutorial that would step new users through some basic functions, and maybe additional tutorials accessible for intermediate & advanced users.
some things seem to act differently for different users. Mouse scroll zooms in and out for me while for others it scrolls board up/down.
I tend to click on a sticky and try to type, but I need to double-click on it
Wish it would work in IE11
I wish adding a thumbnail of a region of the board as the cover for the board was quick and easy
I would like to see a 2-minute tutorial that would step new users through some basic functions, and maybe additional tutorials accessible for intermediate & advanced users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Brainstorming in a virtual world
Interactive process mapping in a virtual world
SIPOC and other Continuous Project planning in a virtual world
Conserving paper
Easier interaction, especially for people who didn't want to get out of the comfort of their seat when live
Interactive process mapping in a virtual world
SIPOC and other Continuous Project planning in a virtual world
Conserving paper
Easier interaction, especially for people who didn't want to get out of the comfort of their seat when live
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look no further
A Reflective Pane of Glass
What do you like best about the product?
Miro helps me to easily publish and update content to stakeholders. This has become my reflective glass where I add content from so many places to help reflect where we are, mark-up and collaborate on this content and reach new audiences with the content. I especially like the way I can have a massive canvas and then send a link to just a part if it. IN workshops er often zoom out and back in to areas and I have increasing levels of detail that I paste into Miro. I love the way you can upload pics, links, videos, PDFs and more and then so easily rearrange them.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the pricing structure is a little opaque and doesn't help me in deciding how to deploy and structure my boards. SOme of them I have lots of viewers and for some boards I need a core team to collaborate and contribute to and the cost model I have access to does not easily allow me to both differentiate between them and also make the most of sharing knowledge and collaborate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easily disseminating content from multiple locations to underpin business architecture and business design coaching. The benefits yielded have been a greater global understanding of our business goals and alignment around next actions. Also throwing up templates of next actions, value chains and decision templates that are then captured elsewhere!
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