Miro
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Much more than a virtual whiteboard
What do you like best about the product?
I love the huge potential for this tool - I use it for facilitating group discussions of all sizes, for project management and scrums, for visual note-taking, and even for some light document design. The reliable and easy to use software gives me the confidence to invite new users to participate. I love the templates, and the 'anyone can edit' links. Use them allll the time! Also - the support articles and videos are the best I've seen anywhere, turned me into a super user in no time. Dot voting is also a great feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there was a way to add bullets and numbered list formats. It's quite manual now, and I have to copy/paste the bullet symbol. I also wish there was a full plan for just an individual. I had to buy 2 licenses even though I only needed 1.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This was a godsend for running my team meetings while working from home. I have a giant doc with a year of team meetings, and associated strategy sessions, project management kanbans, and fun activities.
Make remote meetings fun and level-up collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to get started and up to speed with Miro because of the intuitive design and helpful walk-throughs. You can use the extensive templates or create your own board. Let your imagination run wild and add recordings, web captures.
When working with a large group, you can call everyone to you or hide frames until you're ready to share.
- Voting, yep, it's there
- timer, yep, it's there
- emojis
- collapsible cards
- bulk edit
- export
- web and app version
I am a very satisfied Miro user!
When working with a large group, you can call everyone to you or hide frames until you're ready to share.
- Voting, yep, it's there
- timer, yep, it's there
- emojis
- collapsible cards
- bulk edit
- export
- web and app version
I am a very satisfied Miro user!
What do you dislike about the product?
The navigation can be difficult (hint: add a way to link frames, like a connecting arrow, to guide navigation). The perspective can get off balance, if you create a box at 26% then to 100% it might overfill your screen. The experience suffers when participants who don't have an account attempt to access the board; they're forced to make an account and think I'm going to use their emails. I wish there was a simpler way for that. The locking feature needs streamlining and simplicity.
Far more likes than dislikes.
Far more likes than dislikes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use miro for innovation collaboration sessions, user group meetings, lean coffees, and story boarding. A Zoom call is 2D; a presentation and a lot of people staring at a screen.
Miro keeps people focused on the problem at hand or the event you are sharing. No more multitasking! Everyone plays a part and is engaged.
Miro keeps people focused on the problem at hand or the event you are sharing. No more multitasking! Everyone plays a part and is engaged.
Amazing tool for collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Miro helped me during the lockdown to work collaboratively with the team, exactly like when we were in the office, and sometimes better. It is a fundamental tool in our workflow for brainstorming, decision making, and co-design activities. We often use Miro boards as addition specifications for sofware developers, both exported as images or PDF and directly linked into DevOps cards.
What do you dislike about the product?
It isn't easy to handle big groups of anonymous users. It happens a lot when we run a big workshop with persons external to our organization that aren't autonomous in exporting information and other activities. The voting system isn't so intuitive to use for first-comers. The wireframe library could be bigger, I usually prefer to sketch with shapes and text. Make it easier to draw lines.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Powerful whiteboard for co-design activities, both with designers and developers
- Make it easy to handle big meetings with a lot of essential stakeholders, making the conversation more structured and easy to manage
- Perfect to collect inspirational material for market analysis, user testing, and UX design
- Make it easy to handle big meetings with a lot of essential stakeholders, making the conversation more structured and easy to manage
- Perfect to collect inspirational material for market analysis, user testing, and UX design
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use a lot the guest access to make it every day in the organization to see Miro boards, and it can be not easy to understand the concept if you never used collaborative whiteboards.
Miro is a great tool for collaboration and ideation
What do you like best about the product?
I can use it for facilitating workshops and the tools for collaboration are very versatile. Also, I'm happy with the AI integration that allow us to cluster concepts by keywords. It's quite good not only for facilitation but for organising other type of data like verbatims from interviews.
Besides of collaoration, I use it for solo ideation when kickstarting projects and for mindmapping.
Besides of collaoration, I use it for solo ideation when kickstarting projects and for mindmapping.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I have to facilitate workshops where not everyone has access to the tool, and it's quite challenging for them to just to use the comment feature. The basic mode could have some sort of integration for this cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm a very visual person so it's a great way to display all data and how each concept relates with each other. It helps me a lot also to put together different elements (benchmark, wireframes, visual data) to show a bigger concept to different stakeholders, and to have them in the same space to make a workshop together.
The IA feature helps me organize data by key concepts easily.
The IA feature helps me organize data by key concepts easily.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend it to cross-functional teams, especially if they involve designers and other stakeholders, also to conduct workshops.
Miro is a game changer
What do you like best about the product?
Miro changed the way we have our daily meetings and ideation sessions. The collaboration features provides freedom to the users. The possibility to bring everyone to your viewpoint is great. Besides it, even when working solo, it is a great tool, because it allows you something close to the feeling of a blank paper sheet.
What do you dislike about the product?
We lack something like formulas on spreadsheets. It would be interesting to insert tables inside table cells, to give you the freedom to zoom in for more details inside a specific cell. Another thing nice would be to use scales to measure drawings, more pencil, brushes and color options, and the possibility to insert xreferenced 3d models (sketchup, bim...). The exporting tool could allow you to choose which sheets to make pdf. It could be something odd, but having a tool that could simulate dice throwing would be useful for contests. Another nice addition could be the possibility to play background music, and audio effects to call someone in particular, or everybody.Play videos on the board. Hide and reveal parts of the board, something like dynamic light centered on each user cursor. The possibility to export the mind maps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visual planning, meeting support, ideation sessions, dashboard with Google sheets xreferenced files, basic image edition, social media content planning, creating backlog for activities, creating moodboards for every new project with image references, links to videos, links to external sites to ring additional information related to the content we are working on, agenda for meetings and to keep contacts, relating them.
Miro became my main project management tool
What do you like best about the product?
Performance is amazing, I really like how everything is moving so fast considering the amount of content I drop inside my boards. My research always includes so many screenshots & images & it's great to be able to generously add whatever I want. I really like the presentation mode feature and the fact that I can hide boards from certain teammates. It really helped me promote Miro within my team, they all really dependent on Google slides.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. I'm missing a way to sync things I design in extended software like Sketch or XD.
2. I really want to create nice presentations on Miro, and as a designer, I'm missing basic typography capabilities such as character/ line spacing, creating grid & uploading fonts.
3. Although I think Miro's performance is great, sometimes I wish I could make loading faster, and I think that adding a capability of presenting only chosen boards could be helpful.
2. I really want to create nice presentations on Miro, and as a designer, I'm missing basic typography capabilities such as character/ line spacing, creating grid & uploading fonts.
3. Although I think Miro's performance is great, sometimes I wish I could make loading faster, and I think that adding a capability of presenting only chosen boards could be helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
First and foremost it is a tool for documenting product projects. From the research phase to the transition of design to development. For me, this is a great way to share ideas with my team members, present them with complex diagrams, draw ideas quickly and get feedback on them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is the most amazing tool for any project related to design or visual elements. In my opinion, any team that creates together ideas should use Miro, and document the work in it. I'm definitely trying to implement Miro into my team as much as possible and slowly it's seeping through.
A beautiful, simple canvas for working on...anything.
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is intuitive and attractive. No heavy-handed use of colours or graphics that distract. You can be up and running in seconds and using shortcuts very quickly. If you dream of the biggest desk in the world, this is it. I like the minimalism of the design. Other competitive products seem to want to put their stamp on what a sticky note looks like, for example. The template library is really good. It looks like a product that could have been designed by Mac. Other products seem very PC.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find it a little confusing about who can edit and whether they have to be in my team - in which case I have to take out a licence for them.
I would like to have a choice of colour for the canvas - if this option exists, I can't see it.
I use the kanban template but it, for some reason, seems to be less concrete and straightforward than Trello.
It would be good to have access to third party template designers - a kind of marketplace where I could find less mainstream templates to use. I get the impression that you have absolute control of the templates that are in the library - or you police them quite heavily.
I would like to have a choice of colour for the canvas - if this option exists, I can't see it.
I use the kanban template but it, for some reason, seems to be less concrete and straightforward than Trello.
It would be good to have access to third party template designers - a kind of marketplace where I could find less mainstream templates to use. I get the impression that you have absolute control of the templates that are in the library - or you police them quite heavily.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organising complex information into simple, graphical snapshots.
Collaborating on canvases with colleagues.
Designing digital documents that people can add to, where appropriate.
In all cases, I can show and tell without making a document. It's non linear, in a good way.
Collaborating on canvases with colleagues.
Designing digital documents that people can add to, where appropriate.
In all cases, I can show and tell without making a document. It's non linear, in a good way.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Digital whiteboards look quite similar to one another but, the more you use Miro, the more you see what the others don't do. Or don't do so well.
Fits for almost everything
What do you like best about the product?
Extreme flexibility. I am thinking visually and I can put in Miro practically every thought of mine, which I could put on paper.
No borders. Left or right, up or down, upscale or downscale - can keep adding content and never limited
Quick and intuitive (mostly). No thinking or learning needed - just dropping thoughts straight on a whiteboard, no distraction. This is essential in creative work, so that thoughts keep flowing w/o interruption.
No borders. Left or right, up or down, upscale or downscale - can keep adding content and never limited
Quick and intuitive (mostly). No thinking or learning needed - just dropping thoughts straight on a whiteboard, no distraction. This is essential in creative work, so that thoughts keep flowing w/o interruption.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is expensive for large teams. The price is fair for an active user, but not everyone is an active user. So Miro costs us the same as each of Jira (with plugins) or Confluence (with plugins) or Slack, while those are used much more intensely. This limits us for wider utilization and we limit users granted access to corporate Miro account.
Lacking flexibility in text markup. i.e. in a sticker I would often need some text larger (like a title) and some other text smaller (clarification).
Mindmap functionality is still basic. Lacking large visual tags/icons (like in Xmind), lacking different styles/colors for mindmap nodes (i.e. good/bad marking).
Lacking flexibility in text markup. i.e. in a sticker I would often need some text larger (like a title) and some other text smaller (clarification).
Mindmap functionality is still basic. Lacking large visual tags/icons (like in Xmind), lacking different styles/colors for mindmap nodes (i.e. good/bad marking).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It brings visual collaboration to a whole new level. Even an actual physical whiteboard/stickers might be less convenient sometimes. In remote work, Miro makes meetings extremely more effective (2-3x timewise). Communicating an idea visually becomes 2-3x faster.
The best free virtual board application
What do you like best about the product?
The customization of the board is quite advanced. You can do everything you would do with a physical board.
Everything is editable in real time with other users.
The app is very user-friendly. You can start to use it without any indications.
Navigation inside a giant board is relatively easy thanks to the map and the fact you can follow other user's cursors.
The app is web-based so that you can use it from any device.
It depends on the usage you want, but the free version might be enough for your company. We use it mostly to share our scrum board, and so one board is enough.
Everything is editable in real time with other users.
The app is very user-friendly. You can start to use it without any indications.
Navigation inside a giant board is relatively easy thanks to the map and the fact you can follow other user's cursors.
The app is web-based so that you can use it from any device.
It depends on the usage you want, but the free version might be enough for your company. We use it mostly to share our scrum board, and so one board is enough.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't see a downside. You can remove the things you don't like or don't use them.
I don't like to see the collaborators' cursors, especially when we are more than ten currently using the board, but you can hide them.
The locking system can be frustrating if someone selects a card and you can't edit it or move it, you have to ask that user to unlock it himself.
I don't like to see the collaborators' cursors, especially when we are more than ten currently using the board, but you can hide them.
The locking system can be frustrating if someone selects a card and you can't edit it or move it, you have to ask that user to unlock it himself.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With the corona crisis, we needed an online tool to be able to do our scrum board still. In the end, it means less paper and easy accessibility.
Now we also use it in meetings for brainstorming and surveys.
Now we also use it in meetings for brainstorming and surveys.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Miro is free as long as you use only three boards. You can use it for your daily scrum, but if you want more, you'll have to pay.
The best 2019 discovery. The tool that I use for everything now
What do you like best about the product?
Its simplicity. I even do presentations (kind of on a slide format) with Miro as I can share & co-create with an audience. Making it interactive rather than one way conversation
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost. And it has some little glitches or moments where it does strange things, but not a a big deal as I know how to avoid them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problem: Co-reate with a remote team / Benefit: Efficiency on co-creating content or aligning with the team
Problem: Making the created content phisical / benefit: I can export as pdf and print pòsters created on Miro
Problem: Making the content visually engaging / Benefit: I can import nearly all formats
Problem: I need to document every step of a project / Benefit: I can create my own mental model (structure) on Miro
Problem: Document for regulatory purpose (medical & healthcare projecte) / Benefit: I I can share all the content organised chronologically with the Quality team
Problen: I can not drag and drop videos. I need to add links. I understand this way is more storage efficient, but as they are videos with content that can not be shared outside the organisation, I can not place them in a platform like vimeo and then place the link on Miro / Benefit: For the moment not solved, if the video is short I do a GIF and then place it on the borad. Again our need is linked to having all the content in one place
Problem: Content scattered in different platforms and supports / Benefit: Every material created for a project is in one singe board, so every team member can access it anytime
Problem: Making the created content phisical / benefit: I can export as pdf and print pòsters created on Miro
Problem: Making the content visually engaging / Benefit: I can import nearly all formats
Problem: I need to document every step of a project / Benefit: I can create my own mental model (structure) on Miro
Problem: Document for regulatory purpose (medical & healthcare projecte) / Benefit: I I can share all the content organised chronologically with the Quality team
Problen: I can not drag and drop videos. I need to add links. I understand this way is more storage efficient, but as they are videos with content that can not be shared outside the organisation, I can not place them in a platform like vimeo and then place the link on Miro / Benefit: For the moment not solved, if the video is short I do a GIF and then place it on the borad. Again our need is linked to having all the content in one place
Problem: Content scattered in different platforms and supports / Benefit: Every material created for a project is in one singe board, so every team member can access it anytime
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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