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The full package
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy enough to use that first-time users can participate with minimal instruction. This is important to me as we use miro often for workshops with people who have never used the tool before. There's no feature that I wish was there, it has it all!
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm unsure how accessible it is, but I know it's hard to make these tools fully accessible. Otherwise, very little; I'm nitpicking here to be helpful. This challenge may be solved with an upgrade, I'm pretty sure (working on it!), but when inviting workshop attendees to the board, they have to join your team. Then, if you forget to remove them after (which I always do!), they can create new boards and do all sorts of things. There are no administrator privileges to delete their boards, so you have to contact the rogue participant and walk them through how to delete boards and create their own team. It would be nice if there were a way to prompt everyone to remember these things.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working from home has made collaboration challenging for me as a public servant. The public service is also more behind when it comes to adopting tools like this. So Miro helps to facilitate research and collaboration in a way that most folks can participate with ease. The benefit has been that with the exposure, more teams are not only using more digital tools, but they are also collaborating more and better!
Miro is one of the most intuitive and creative apps I've ever used.
What do you like best about the product?
It's so easy to use, I started using Miro a few months ago and because it's so intuitive I already feel like a pro. I have encouraged a few of my colleagues to move on from pencil and paper to using Miro too.
What do you dislike about the product?
The paid account system is slightly complicated. We need some people in the organization to have full editing access and some people to be able to view the boards for presentation/review purposes but it's not clear how this is possible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Miro for creating flow diagrams and user journeys and it's amazing for this. We have multiple users collaborating on these processes and it makes life so much easier
Recommendations to others considering the product:
you can use Miro for free to start with. I'm sure you'll be hooked and the paid features make it so much more effective. Definitely worth trying it out
Miro - An environment where ideas can be expressed creatively, shared easily and improved constantly
What do you like best about the product?
Visual - Miro encourages you to express ideas using visual elements. By default, we communicate ideas using words (written and verbal). Words are helpful when trying to remove ambiguity around a reasonably well-understood subject. However, in the early stages of an idea (e.g., brainstorming), an image/visual representation may be more effective. It communicates the essentials of an idea very quickly. It prompts the viewer to understand the concept in their own words. It does not overwhelm the viewer with peripheral information. Miro allows you to use words but provides the most value when you restrict them. It's not a giant word processing document. It's more like a vast canvas. Miro provides plenty of space so your idea isn't limited to what can fit on a single slide or page. Miro makes getting started with an idea, project, or proposal much less painful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Movement Tracker - When you're on a Miro board, an item hovers over the board to let other people know exactly where you are. During a meeting this feature is brilliant. It enables participants to know they're looking at the same thing. When creating a diagram this is less helpful. As a general rule, it's nice to work in silence until your idea is ready to be revealed. The "movement-tracker" can attract unecessary attention. Comments/feedback while you're in the process of creating aren't always helpful. They may stall the creative process and turn it into a bug-fixing exercise. There may be a feature that allows you to disable this "movement-tracker". I'll explore further.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're building an application that allows mentors to share knowledge, skills, and experience with mentees. What are the essential things a mentee or mentor would like to do? If someone joins as a mentee and decides they'd like to be a mentor, what process will they go through? Which similar applications currently exist? These are some of the questions we're discussing. Miro allows us to present many ideas on one board. The images don't have to be closely linked or set out in a particular way. All diagrams can be freely reviewed, discussed, re-reviewed, and expanded. Miro makes all of this very easy. It's much more straightforward to track developments on one board than it would be to follow updates made to multiple documents.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Dive in. You won't regret it. It isn't a replacement for other tools you may currently use, e.g., word processors, spreadsheets, and presentations. It's a highly effective way to summarise concepts that may be spread across various documents and bring them together in one place.
Miro is not just fantastic; it's moreover funtastic
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate how quickly and easily I can draw and plot the entire thought process that I have in mind to have a clear vision and insights into what I brainstorm. Furthermore, it has built-in team collaboration and productivity features that let our entire team work together on various strategic and planning-related tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
This tool is helpful for creative diagramming and strategic planning on a specific topic. Still, it is not suitable for routine content creation or task management in the manner of Asana, Todoist, and other similar tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A digital whiteboard with no limits, Miro allows me to draw and map whatever I think of on one side while simultaneously recording it on the other. However, I collaborate closely with colleagues in important project planning and strategy situations as if we were both sitting at the same desk.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
An individual or a team who only thinks within their head but struggles to visualize them into reality should try the Miro visual collaboration tool.
Almost Perfect
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is a fantastic collaboration tool. I use this regularly to conduct collaboration sessions within my team, to generate ideas (alone), and to orchestrate tightly-knit, high-profile workshops and work sessions with departments and executives within my organization. The tools are easy to use, there is a relatively low learning curve for new users (the basics can be learned in minutes), and powerful features like voting, timers, music and the ability to hide and show canvases are a true win. In a world where remote work is more commonplace, it is hard to imagine getting certain work done as efficiently without Miro. I'm a fan.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some elements of Miro that limit is function. One is the inability to assign "roles" to boards based on user type. For example, as a board owner, I can hide/show frames... but a co-facilitator cannot. So, if I'm sick or cannot make a meeting and boards are hidden, I'm out of luck unless I can transfer ownership to someone else. It would be nice to be able to assign more than own "owner" to a board so those controls can be shared. Licensing is challenging too. I know some competing products allow "free" use of the tool when invited to work in a board, but for a limited time. In our situation any user that needs to be able to "edit" a board must be a licensed user... and that process causes friction and ill-will before people have even used the tool. If working with external clients, the need for privacy is important too, so the ability to set up boards as private, restricting the type of content that is accessible externally, is important.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Miro's built-in templates and create our own. We've submitted templates to the Miroverse and have designed boards that have become a standard within (and beyond) our organizations. Many of us that lead workshops are professional designers and have been leading in-person workshops for years. It's all about creating the ideal end-user experience for participants. Working in a virtual environment has resulted in new challenges (Zoom fatigue, etc) so we've had to invent new ways of creating engaging experiences and this tool helps us do some of that. We've used Miro to create broad (and specific) ideas, orchestrate stand-ups and sprint retrospectives, plan long-term events and educational plans, document discussion, prioritize initiatives, vote on ideas, and many, many more. My team uses this took more than any other software product, especially in a remote-work environment. Even if we were doing things in-person, Miro lets us capture (and retain) our work... unlike a traditional wall or whiteboard.
Fantastic online tool for real-time collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
So much. Real-time visibility to what everyone else is doing online. The ability to use or create templates that can re-create in-person experiences for familiarity or take advantage of online templates to remove the barriers that physical space would make. I also like that you can anonymize participants to enter information without knowing who wrote what - very useful for honest comments.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a navigation learning curve which is expected with any technology tool. The learning curve is short but steep. Once you get participants over that initial hurdle, they are fine. Low-tech users sometimes struggle, but a little patience and good planning go a long way in helping them get familiar with working in the MIRO space.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
So many things. Focus group feedback, customer and employee engagement, process improvements. The main benefit, the way we are using MIRO, is that we get great information and contributions because we set it so that people can join anonymously. Participants can write their truth without fear of repercussions. People who don't usually speak up or speak truth to power love using MIRO the way we set it up. We also find that introverts love using MIRO as there is a way for their voice to be heard without being drowned out by the talkers if we were in person.
Just Miro it! Miro helped us change meeting format forever
What do you like best about the product?
Miro provides enough tools (even with a free plan) to facilitate online meetings and keep all relevant information in front of you the whole time. Visualization helps my Team to be engaged and solve complex problems together. It's crucial today as we work remotely nowadays.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes time to specify how to move elements on a board or avoid ruing all your templates for a meeting for new users. So, Miro might be confusing firstly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Miro several times helped to conduct kick-off meetings and set expectations within teams. Visualization of ideas, processes, expectations in combination with proper facilitation technic guarantees a great result. Also, it's a vital tool for a Scrum Team to have cool retrospectives and planning sessions.
Miro in Engineering classes
What do you like best about the product?
Infinite whiteboard, easy to use, elegant, highly interactive for students, compatible with groups and academic communities, multiplatform
I have used it for more than two years now, and It is a marvelous tool for subjects like economics, programming, history, etc.
Why use a traditional whiteboard if you can save that time with an infinite board for your whole semester?
I have used it for more than two years now, and It is a marvelous tool for subjects like economics, programming, history, etc.
Why use a traditional whiteboard if you can save that time with an infinite board for your whole semester?
What do you dislike about the product?
the three board limit for the free version limits projects for students
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Changing from a traditional class to a distance education model in only two days, I needed a big white board, easy to use, and the chance to design every class easily with multimedia references and broadcasting.
And each student can collaborate in seconds!
And each student can collaborate in seconds!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Compare all the available options, get all the info you can. If you are using zoom or meets, you know those tools and maybe a few others, so make your checklist and compare, you will find the best choice
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My go-to Digital Collaboration Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is a simple, intuitive, and visually engaging software that makes working on a screen enjoyable. While the templates are great, I often use the software for affinity and mind mapping. The simplicity in connecting elements with lines is my favorite feature. It helps me show concepts as they evolve and develop a functional hierarchy. When working on live documents with teammembers, the voting and timing features also work great and it's easy to get around within the document.
What do you dislike about the product?
I want more options for coloring and working with sticky notes. When working with user data, I often color code each participant by color, but there are not enough colors for all the participants, which leads to many problems. Sometimes I will turn over to text boxes, but because they do not auto-resize, it is annoying.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am working on analyzing user interview data. I bring interview notes into Miro and afinitize them to draw insights through a multi-staged process of sentiment evaluation, topic arrangement, and jobs to be done. These categories are combined to craft insights from each section of the research. The benefit is quick and easy manipulation of the data. For me, the best part is simply copying/pasting the WIP data into a new section to affinitize; this enables a traceable history of the data - something that physical notes are unable to do
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it out! I have used both Miro and Mural, and I easily prefer Miro because it feels more polished
A fantastic tool for cross functional team collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
To me, I find the different templates of MIRO to be very valuable because, depending on the context of my discussions with my team members, I can select the desired template and drive my conversation. For example, it has been beneficial to work on a feature prioritization exercise where I have used the feature map template. Another example is to create a product backlog, and a user story map where MIRO boards have been very productive to use in the meetings and obtain feedback immediately.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice if we had more customer journey map templates to select as the ones currently available do not have a lot of swimlanes focusing on technology considerations, opportunities for improvements which are great to have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
MIRO has helped identify gaps when analyzing the current state and future state for product requirements and the gap analysis brainstorming done using MIRO has been very insightful to the business and technical teams in deciding business improvement areas, technical roadblocks, and both product and process efficiency.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If your looking to collaborate and engage every team member in the most effective and productive way, MIRO is the place to get started!
Virtual meetings and in person meetings can become more fun using MIRO :) !!!
Virtual meetings and in person meetings can become more fun using MIRO :) !!!
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