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Miro is the best online whiteboarding tool I've found
What do you like best about the product?
The way it balances allowing freeform expression and the right level of constraints in interaction with elements. Most tools sit in a spectrum of allowing freeform expression the same way a physical whiteboarding tool would and some rigidity, allowing itself to be more opinionated and solve very specific problems. I feel Miro lies at the exact middle and allows for enough flexibility that people have found it to be more than just for drawing diagrams, but I've seen it used to host games, facilitate workshops, and so much more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lacking specialization, as mentioned above, there are specific diagrams that are much harder to draw with a mouse. As a software engineer, for example, it's challenging to try and connect elements that weren't intended to be connected the usual box and lines that Miro supports. There are add ons available for some of them though. For others, I just do them in the specialized tool and paste it back to Miro.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The collaboration is another strong point. It's become to whiteboarding what gmail is to email, or google docs to collaborating on documents. I can just as easy jump in, share the Miro board link, and invite people in to the board. Them having to make an account is probably the only barrier to this. There are also a number of neat features for facilitating meetings, like timers, and draw people's attention to your cursor.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's an amazing tool for collaboration that sits neatly between flexibility and an appropriate level of constraint between elements in the board.
Excellent Living Whiteboard Wall
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is a far superior tool to the traditional whiteboard that we used in the office. Previously when in the office, we would write words and add sticky notes to a wall while brainstorming or project planning. At the end of a traditional session, we would either write down the final decision or take a picture to remind us of how we arrived at the decisions we made. With Miro, we can collaborate the same way virtually, and the "wall" lives on, which allows additional asynchronous and synchronous discussions to occur. Miro also saves time as it is quick and easy to review past brainstorming and decisions along with adding new thoughts to the Mior board. Additionally, the highlighting of changes since last time is helpful to see what other team members have added asynchronously.
What do you dislike about the product?
Navigation: I find navigation within Miro tricky and often frustrating. More often than not, I accidentally move information on the board when I intend to move to a different area on the board. I have identified the "undo" button, which allows me to fix any unintended moves, but it causes additional time to correct errors.
Screen share: Although external links relevant to the project can be included in the Miro board, with the Miro meeting, I am unable to share the screen so that all meeting attendees are looking at the same external information. The lack of external screen share causes me to use google meets more frequently than the Miro "meeting" functionality.
Screen share: Although external links relevant to the project can be included in the Miro board, with the Miro meeting, I am unable to share the screen so that all meeting attendees are looking at the same external information. The lack of external screen share causes me to use google meets more frequently than the Miro "meeting" functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Miro when aligning visions to define a project. It is an excellent collaboration tool, as it allows everyone to voice (write) their thoughts, which in turn allows more enriching discussions including clarification of ideas. The voting feature is great for ensuring alignment on ideas. It alows everyone a "voice" at the meeting to share their ideas. With proper documentation, those who have not attended the synchronous meeting are able to review the Miro board and contribute to the project asynchronous. As a result of using Miro, we have been more successful in aligning the vision and scope of projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Appoint a Miro champion internally to encourage others to use Miro and provide examples to teams where Miro can improve current practices.
Enables a remote-first team with a great user experience
What do you like best about the product?
What I especially like about Miro is the possibility to create frames and easily navigate through them while presenting content. In addition to that, to conduct workshops the timer and the feature to show collaborators' cursors are super helpful for a moderator. I also enjoy the integration of Miro with Slack, so that I quickly get to see notifications when there's something new in my boards. Miro is my number one helper whenever there's a remote workshop and I use it very much with my teams as we are a remote-first company. I've tried other platforms like Mural and I must say that Miro's user experience is superior.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are way too many templates, and some of them are hard to edit. I wish I didn't have to browse through all templates to find the one I need e.g. if Miro would ask me a few questions to understand what my goals are with a new board and then suggest me a few that could fit my use case.
I also wish the tutorials were easier to find and perhaps in a guided tour such as the ones you can get when using Userlane.
Once I tried to contact Miro support to ask about voting data that was not saved, but as I have a free account, it was impossible to find the contact. Finding the answer in the Miro community was not easy.
I also wish the tutorials were easier to find and perhaps in a guided tour such as the ones you can get when using Userlane.
Once I tried to contact Miro support to ask about voting data that was not saved, but as I have a free account, it was impossible to find the contact. Finding the answer in the Miro community was not easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In a remote-first environment, it is hard to know whether people still follow your ideas or if their attention span is long gone during a workshop or a team ceremony.
With Miro, I feel empowered as a manager to lead my teams in a safe environment. A place where everyone feels encouraged to share their ideas.
Before Miro we were collaborating using Google Workspace apps. Still, there was nothing that could replace a good physical whiteboard to spark new ideas. Miro has changed this game, and my team members adopted it quickly as the usability is excellent.
With Miro, I feel empowered as a manager to lead my teams in a safe environment. A place where everyone feels encouraged to share their ideas.
Before Miro we were collaborating using Google Workspace apps. Still, there was nothing that could replace a good physical whiteboard to spark new ideas. Miro has changed this game, and my team members adopted it quickly as the usability is excellent.
Miro is intuitive in all senses, using the mouse, the different objects, even integrating w/3rd
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to be all looking the same without sharing the screen, I love automation like voting, and timer, among the main.
Integrating with other apps like "flip cards", Jira issues, randomized number or object selections, and various Agile applications make it easy to do more.
Integrating with other apps like "flip cards", Jira issues, randomized number or object selections, and various Agile applications make it easy to do more.
What do you dislike about the product?
when organizing boards there is just a project level and when the number of boards is large within a project it's hard to find one quickly.
I've noticed sometimes I need to enable complete incognito sessions, as a creator and there is no such feature.
I've noticed sometimes I need to enable complete incognito sessions, as a creator and there is no such feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
They facilitate all kinds of meetings especially Scrum, creating templates for other colleagues to reuse.
We've expanded its use to provide training about Agility, also as part of our recognition program and we've created a standard board, and team members can join and assign a badge and leave a comment this later is moved to a company-wide database.
We've expanded its use to provide training about Agility, also as part of our recognition program and we've created a standard board, and team members can join and assign a badge and leave a comment this later is moved to a company-wide database.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
not additional to the mentiones above
Miro a intuitive creative platform for you or in collaboration with your colleagues
What do you like best about the product?
Every creative process starts with a brainstorming phase. You want to gather and collect without any boundaries or structure.
Miro boards are like a vast floor where you can throw all the stuff you have on. Anything you find and come up with (post-its, drawings, notes, etc.). Side by side, on top of each other, left or right - your choice. Videos, Images, documents, notes, drawings, there's no limit.
Once you have saturated your board, you can start to organize all the stuff if you don't already have applied a template (plenty ready-made available to choose from) and placed your content. Sort things, distill, add, pair, place.
With frames you can place and size anywhere on the board, all the content you choose to organize can become a presentation. Super easy.
Once you get a grip, you will realize the potential of zooming in and out on your board. One super zoomed-out frame can contain tens and tens of detailed frames you can zoom in on.
Two modes of presentation give you either a fly-around "Prezi" type of experience or you have the classical PowerPoint frame presentation view (although without transition possibilities - see negatives).
At the click of a button you can either export the entire board as an entire pdf, a pdf slide presentation or you can share the board for viewing or real-time updated and synchronized editing collaboration.
These are only a few of the features and functions.
Miro boards are like a vast floor where you can throw all the stuff you have on. Anything you find and come up with (post-its, drawings, notes, etc.). Side by side, on top of each other, left or right - your choice. Videos, Images, documents, notes, drawings, there's no limit.
Once you have saturated your board, you can start to organize all the stuff if you don't already have applied a template (plenty ready-made available to choose from) and placed your content. Sort things, distill, add, pair, place.
With frames you can place and size anywhere on the board, all the content you choose to organize can become a presentation. Super easy.
Once you get a grip, you will realize the potential of zooming in and out on your board. One super zoomed-out frame can contain tens and tens of detailed frames you can zoom in on.
Two modes of presentation give you either a fly-around "Prezi" type of experience or you have the classical PowerPoint frame presentation view (although without transition possibilities - see negatives).
At the click of a button you can either export the entire board as an entire pdf, a pdf slide presentation or you can share the board for viewing or real-time updated and synchronized editing collaboration.
These are only a few of the features and functions.
What do you dislike about the product?
The presentation mode could be improved: Transitions for the slide view mode. Repeated viewing of the same frame in a presentatation sequence. Hide and reveal elements. Exporting functionality to Power Point. Easier navigation betweem frames overall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For us: Global collaboration in creative processes. Perfect for people that either work over different time zones on the same material to share a board or for groups that simultaneously work on the same material at the same time.
Virtual collaboration helps everything be remote
What do you like best about the product?
There are so many use cases we can use it for - collaborative employee interviews, team brainstorming sessions, customer feedback, planning - it allows our praimarily remote team to collaborate as if we were in person.
What do you dislike about the product?
No significant downsides for me- I've never experienced any issues, and it has all the features my team needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problems we've solved with Miro are the ability to build off something someone else has created when you're not in the same room. The benefits have been better collaboration, quicker understanding and less back and forth. Teams can give feedback in real-time on calls or a-sync.
I could not love this application more...and I didn't think I would feel that way!
What do you like best about the product?
I love that it gives me space to visually map things out so I can collect thoughts for things I'm working on. I also LOVE that my team can collaborate and brainstorm together though we are all virtual. I come from a company that used a lot of TQM continuous improvement techniques, but we did that using whiteboards and paper sticky notes. That already feels so outdated. Miro lets me keep up that kind of work process, including visual managment in a more modern way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much. Sometimes I have to figure out the right gestures or controls, but I can always accomplish what I need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I been using it to help with brainstorming, strategic planning, and organizing research. It has helped us do that though we are all still home due to COVID. I have realized that working in Miro helps us create a repository so we can keep up our work without having to take pictures of the whiteboard or write "Do Not Erase".
Miro Board for Fashion and Product Design Processes Visualization and Mind Mapping
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is one of the best remote collaboration Apps that I was able to work with as a Teaching Assistant for university-level Design Courses. Miro's User Interface is particularly useful when working in groups on brainstorming and visual storming activities, when collaborating on image researches and moodboards, or for remote workshops. The interactive tools and elements allow collaborators to work together on the same worksheet and to connect.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing to be reminded to students when using Miro for group activities is that they have to access the boards through their University account, in order to have unlimited editing access to the shared contents.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Miro allows students, and users more in general, to work creatively in remote mode by providing user-friendly tools for brainstorming, mind-mapping, visual storming, moodboarding activities.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend adopting Miro for distance collaborations activities such as Mind Mapping, Moodboarding, Brainstorming and Visual Storming and or other remote group activities and workshops.
Miro is the best tool for the job!
What do you like best about the product?
I absolutely love the integrations with other apps for Miro, but the best thing about Miro is how easy it is to pick up for all kinds of users. You don't have to be a pro to create and edit, but there's plenty of opportunities to create messy, neat, organised, disorganised chaos, whatever floats your boat! This app/web app is so versatile, I'm obsessed!
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the integrations can be clunky, but this feels more like a problem with the supporting parties rather than Miro. Microsoft Teams for example was a long-winded setup that didn't really make much sense, but Miro's guides were on hand to assist!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
User research analysis is at the forefront of my work, but even hashing out team and squad organisation and planning helps by using Miro. I love the ability to share this work so seamlessly!
The BEST flowchart / workflow diagram design app: great looking, easy to use and collaborate
What do you like best about the product?
- Intuitive and easy to use: both for experienced or beginners users creating diagrams (mind maps, flowchats, workflows, funnels, and so on) it's incredibly easy to use. The overall user experience it's amazing. You can easily move around combining your keyboard and mouse for zooming in, pan, duplicate and connecting items or groups.
- Contextual menus gives you additional control for styling, creating links or arrangening items with layers control.
- Fast: never lags, no matter how big your diagram and how many items it has, always workf very fluidly.
- Looks great: suggested color palette and shapes looks consistent and you don't need to work too much on styling the items. As a Design Manager, this is a plus, since many other diagrams apps I have used in the past looks a little bit outdated.
- Shareable and easy to comment and collaborate: for me, one of its beast features. As a previous user of offline apps (like xMind Classic, which I used for many years) Miro allows you to easily share and collaborate in real time. Clients and team members can add comments, that can be used as tasks, or just to mention anyone in the team.
- Frames: excellent option for showing or hiding certain parts or segments of your diagram, very useful for presentations.
- Not just for diagrams: and finally, Miro's great not just for diagrams; you can also use it as a wireframing tool. Includes a library of UI items that the wireframing process, both for Web and Apps design.
I've been using Miro for about 6 month's now, and I know it has so many other features I'm not even aware. More than a mind map app, it's a full ecosystem to support your planning, thinking and design process. Very happy so far :)
- Contextual menus gives you additional control for styling, creating links or arrangening items with layers control.
- Fast: never lags, no matter how big your diagram and how many items it has, always workf very fluidly.
- Looks great: suggested color palette and shapes looks consistent and you don't need to work too much on styling the items. As a Design Manager, this is a plus, since many other diagrams apps I have used in the past looks a little bit outdated.
- Shareable and easy to comment and collaborate: for me, one of its beast features. As a previous user of offline apps (like xMind Classic, which I used for many years) Miro allows you to easily share and collaborate in real time. Clients and team members can add comments, that can be used as tasks, or just to mention anyone in the team.
- Frames: excellent option for showing or hiding certain parts or segments of your diagram, very useful for presentations.
- Not just for diagrams: and finally, Miro's great not just for diagrams; you can also use it as a wireframing tool. Includes a library of UI items that the wireframing process, both for Web and Apps design.
I've been using Miro for about 6 month's now, and I know it has so many other features I'm not even aware. More than a mind map app, it's a full ecosystem to support your planning, thinking and design process. Very happy so far :)
What do you dislike about the product?
Not that I "dislike" but things that could improve the experience:
- It would be great if it could include some sort of auto-alignment option. You can align your items manually, but when I have too many items, I could use some feature that could arrange all of them using some sort of rule for separation, vertical and horizontal alignment.
- Wireframing library UI items could be a little bit more extensive and include more components.
- It would be great if it could include some sort of auto-alignment option. You can align your items manually, but when I have too many items, I could use some feature that could arrange all of them using some sort of rule for separation, vertical and horizontal alignment.
- Wireframing library UI items could be a little bit more extensive and include more components.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Mind map diagrams creation: flow chart, sales funnels, launch phases diagrams.
- Structure ideas and team collaboration
- Wireframe creation, mostly for web design
- Structure ideas and team collaboration
- Wireframe creation, mostly for web design
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