What do you like best about the product?

I appreciate how conveniently we can quickly brainstorm on my ideas and create visually appealing mind maps that can be either downloaded or shared with anyone online through a shareable link. Other than this, it is also quite valuable for drafting a Business model canvas, SWOT analysis, Project management, and implementation timeline by merely selecting from its pre-designed templates.

What do you dislike about the product?

Even though Miro is a feature-rich program, the optimum usability of the software is a little complicated, and the user might get into several confusions and even get lost from time to time while trying to use it correctly. Additionally, the mobile version of this application is almost useless as it requires a big screen size for designing and creating things efficiently.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The overall experience has been excellent with Miro as they even have a startup support program through which we could receive the credits of two thousand dollars. We can quickly draft our business model canvas, SWOT analysis, project timeline and create various mind maps that are easily shareable with anyone through a link.

What do you like best about the product?

We are able to share screenshots of our work to provide a visual perspective of the team's achievements. With miro, our animation team can provide helpful information of our process to team leaders, and track every step of the process. In my particular case, we make downloadable "smart templates" of motion graphics videos. Our process includes conceptualization, scripting, animation, and UX design. Therefore, Miro helps us prove that we follow the guidelines during our daily taks and show our managers we are feeding the cocorrect information to the servers that host the template platform.

What do you dislike about the product?

We use texts a lot. Usually, our team leads write something and we have to modify this text or add more information. The problem is that TEXTS are sometimes hard to modify onece they were written. Let me give you an example. If my leader Writes "HELLO", the text box will remain that size. If I try to expand the textbox, it will increase or shrink the size of the text but not the space to write. So, if I want to add more words right next to the "HELLO" (whose circular handles are just in the perimeter of the text), the new words will apear under the original text because the textbox already has a horizontal constraint. Do I explain my self? In n other words, its hard to keep writing on the same line because it automatically creates another line. So, I have to create another text with bigger constraints. Heres a video I made thats shows the problem: https://recordit.co/hstfzHYbXf

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our team leaders can see our entire process through our screenshots, instead of manually opening and exploring every photoshop project, after effects file, code scripts, website admin changes and checklist reviews. Also, we can provide the screenshots that prove we backed up all the files into the server after we finish our tasks.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you are not familiar with design software like Illustrator and Photoshop, you may want to see and read all the tutorials before starting so you can save time with shortcuts and tools. If you already have experience with Illustrator and Photoshop, you will be fine. It's very intuitive for Adobe users.

What do you like best about the product?

My team and I love the real time collaboration. Even though we are all of ther world, we all get together on Miro to work out ideas; it's pretty great considering the pandemic. We also and the integrations. Being able to use Miro within our comms apps is incredibly helpful. We can add Miro to our Webex space and keep it open to add or refine ideas when inspiration sparks. The plug-in integrations are great, too. Icon packs and templates really make projects move quick.

What do you dislike about the product?

Miro cannot be used offline; I'd love to be able to work during my flight or with a sketchy internet connection. The only other things are maybe feature overload. Miro may have features that could help my team but I wouldn't know since I don't really have time to explore the app or watch videos. I've heard of things like tagging, voting, user notifications, and even directory search, but I've never seen official Miro comms about them or seen them in the app.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

My team uses Miro to diagram processes such as user journeys. Once we all get working, we can quickly identify silos and open them, risks and vulnerabilities, and redundancies.
At them moment, we are using Miro to diagram all of our user journeys through the digital lifecycle.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Use the Miro integrations to make online meetings better and more engaging; even simple fun sketch events can make difficult sessions more fun and productive.

What do you like best about the product?

Collaboration: I love that I can work with my colleagues on the same board simultaneously, which is very valuable! It reminds me of being back in the office and letting creativity flow naturally when brainstorming
Tools: I love the range of tools offered by Miro, I think the templates are also a great feature when you are not sure where to start

What do you dislike about the product?

Honestly, I wouldn't say there is any major issue that impacts workflow. I guess I feel like it would be beneficial to include SSO in all plans rather than hide it behind Enterprise pricing

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our company uses Miro for a wide range of things, for me its mostly GDPR related Data Flows and Data Diagrams, I know others use it for creative brainstorming

What do you like best about the product?

1. The intuitive user interface makes it easy to learn for first-time users.
2.The infinite canvas is excellent for large workshops and projects to share and discuss throughout the process.
3. Real-time interaction between all participants makes the discussions more efficient.

What do you dislike about the product?

1. The web clipper still needs some improvement. It would be beneficial for discussions with information from the web as references.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Hosting remote workshops within the company during WFH.
2. Using Miro as a meeting agenda canvas and meeting notes during the meeting, making meetings much more efficient.
3. Use Miro's diagramming tools to draw beautiful flowcharts for presentations and for individual thinking as well.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Miro is a great tool for remote collaborations. The intuitive user interface makes it easy to learn for first-time users.
The infinite canvas is excellent for large workshops and projects to share and discuss throughout the process.
It even works well in face-to-face discussions, saving the time to organize and digitize physical post-its.

What do you like best about the product?

After testing Mural and Miro (Jamboard was too basic) I chose Miro. The tool menu is very intuitive, with very clear options and highly visual. I love that Miro is very user-friendly so it is a tool that I can introduce to a group of people that have never seen it and get them using it really fast without having to spend time in a long introduction. I also like that it works smooth and fast. A good performance is key for me since a slow reaction or small delays would be extremely annoying during a virtual meeting, so far I have had no problems with performance in virtual workshops. I also find extremely useful some functions like the timer, background music and the option for selecting a number of post-its and allow the participants to vote them. I also like the simplicity of the drawing tools. Maybe Mural can allow for more sophisticated figures and I have seen people using it for developing worflows and complex diagrams, but Miro serves most of my drawing needs to be able to set up the board for a group activity.

What do you dislike about the product?

I have mixed feelings regarding how tables are managed in Miro. Some functionalities are brilliant, but then for some common actions with tables Miro requires a different behaviour/interaction and it is a bit difficult to get used to it or to get someone new to use them easily. Still, this is a functionality for the owner of the board before using it with workshop participants, so it is not much of a problem. I also find a bit disappointing the mindmaps. There are many applications online that are really flexible and easy to use and Miro would benefit from trying to emulate them because mindmaps are also a very useful collaborative tool. So far I have not been able to include them in the activities I do with Miro because they end up being a bit "annoying" for the people trying to use them or they just lack a bit of variety in color options.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

In general, using virtual whiteboards is a very useful tool to make dynamic online workshops. What I need is to be able to have a group of 15 or 30 people being able to add post-its, vote for their favourite options and organise or give priority to ideas visually. For this, Miro has fully met all my expectations. I have ended up also using it for team building activities and ideas sketching in small groups of 2 or 3 people. I even have a board for having a broad picture of projects and activities my team is involved in with the added value of being able to share it with all the team.

What do you like best about the product?

With the transition to full remote, my development team was struggling to map out all requirements and details needed to release new features on time. We were finding out too late in the sprint cycles that areas were being missed and details were not fully captured at the start. As a product owner, this was my worst nightmare, so I scrambled to find a solution that would allow my team to brainstorm and whiteboard together while in a remote working environment.

Miro came to our rescue and provided the platform missing to allow my team the ability to "whiteboard it out" again. I took on the task of learning Miro so I could create boards and facilate meetings successfully. I have had to learn a lot of softwares throughout my years and I must say I was super impressed with Miro's training videos, learning academy, and online community; all videos, FAQ's, and training materials are truly top notch. I also attended a live webinar that gave me the foundational skills needed to get started. I found creating boards to be relatively user friendly and intuitive. There was a bit of a learning curve figuring out how to naviagate the board and learning the different tools available and how to use said tools, however I was able to get up to speed relatively quickly. I enjoyed utilizing the various templates available from the community and editing them to fit my needs. It was a great time saver to have a template to start from and some of the templates provided unique ideas for facilating different types of meetings that I would have never thought of myself. I was also able to share a quick "how to" video to my team prior to our Miro workshop which gave folks confidence to begin participating right from the start.

The very first workshop I hosted utilizing a Miro board was an absolute success which I attribute to all of the learning/training tools Miro provides. I received extremely positive feedback from all of my team members and even though we have only been using Miro for a short time now, I have seen vast improvements to our productivity and keeping to our release schedule. I have also seen improvements in innovation and problem solving on my team, as well as increased participation in meetings that we have moved over to using Miro boards for.

What do you dislike about the product?

When many individuals are on a board simultaneously, board elements can become slow to load, especially if there are many elements on the board. However, loading slowness has not affected our ability to host successful meetings. When individuals first join the board, it seems to start at a very zoomed-out view, and participants have found that to be confusing; I would prefer that participants are placed into the board with a focus on the first frame. I do wish Miro had a way to store meeting notes with the added ability to conduct keyword searches within multiple instances of said meeting notes. I also wish there was the option to add subfolders to Projects to allow organization of different boards within a Project more efficiently. I would love to see the ability to create new board elements such as custom shapes, icons, and frames easier. My workaround has been locating a template that has a similar shape/frame/icon and then editing it to adjust to my needs, I would much prefer to create board elements from scratch a bit easier than having to try and co-opt something else.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Miro solves the problem of brainstorming and collaborating while working in a remote environment. Miro has provided my team the platform needed to brainstorm not only synchronously but asynchronously as well. Miro also has the added benefit that an office whiteboard doesn't have, which is that all work is saved in a board and doesn't need to be erased to allow space for different whiteboarding / sticky note mapping sessions to take its place. Miro has many templates that provide creative and effective meeting hosting and facilitating tools and the online community is active and full of individuals with great ideas and innovative solutions. While we have only been using Miro for a short time now, I have seen vast improvements to our productivity and keeping to our release schedule. I have also seen improvements in innovation and problem solving on my team, as well as increased participation in meetings that we have moved over to using Miro boards for.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

My recommendation would be to spend some time in the learning academy before jumping into board creation to familiarize yourself with the tools available and to create a foundation for success. I also recommend having participants spend about 10 minutes before using Miro to watch a brief overview video to learn the basic skills needed to participate. I have found allowing 10-15 minutes at the start of a Miro meeting for an icebreaker activity that utilizes basic board functions and tools allow participants time to get comfortable with using Miro and has fostered an environment for creativity and max participation.

What do you like best about the product?

Board, post its, comments, visualization, unlimited space in one board

What do you dislike about the product?

When I have used a lot of space on the board sometimes, I find it hard to find where I was. I want to update to premium, but premium costs are quite high.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy to communicate ideas with mind maps. Easy to evaluate product features and get feedback from the team. Miro has helped us work remotely with team members.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I shared this on my LinkedIn account earlier this month and I copy-paste it from my feed: Did you start using Miro to run Creative Sessions and workshops? As the pandemic forced us into remote working, we started using it for our innovation sessions, and I'd like to recommend it as a collaborative tool. They have this small course about User Experience Design, which is worth watching! #userexperiencedesign #designresearch #userexperience

What do you like best about the product?

Miro is great for working together as a team. I like to run little workshops instead of meetings, and Miro is a great tool to get everyone involved.

I like having infinite space to work on, so I can make sure everything fits.

What do you dislike about the product?

I would need a way of filtering content, eg tables, to only work on a certain category at the time without needing to reorganize content manually.

Miro is so popular in our organization I sometimes get lost in all the Miro boards when trying to find a board.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Planning and brainstorming remotely. Working together simultaneously.

What do you like best about the product?

I like the freedom Miro gives you (it´s a whiteboard where you can customize it as you want). The best part of Miro is sharing the board with a link, and people don´t need to be a member of Miro to edit. I used for all my projects as a UX designer: to run workshops, organize my tasks and run briefs meetings. Amazing!

What do you dislike about the product?

There is nothing I dislike. If I need to say something, I will say the feature of video calls didn´t work properly when I used, so I now I always try to avoid these feature using other video call software and share my screen.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used it for my UX projects: to run workshops, create flow charts, experience maps, organize assignments, and create the projects plan. The best is that it can be shareable, and we can use it in Teams with the clients!