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Effortless Collaboration and Brainstorming Made Simple
What do you like best about the product?
Colloboration and simplicity to brainstorm ideas
What do you dislike about the product?
Simplicity sometime makes difficult to freeze the information on the board
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us do productive discussion, come to concussion and pre-build board provides a skeleton for our discussion.
Easy and Effective Team Collaboration with Miro
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Miro is how easy it makes collaboration and brainstorming. It helps teams organize ideas visually, work together in real time, and turn creative discussions into clear plans and action
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes larger boards can become a bit overwhelming and harder to navigate. I also think performance could be smoother when working with very complex projects or many collaborators at the same time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Miro helps organize ideas, improve teamwork, and make collaboration easier. It saves time during planning, workshops, and brainstorming, especially when working with larger groups or remotely.
Intuitive UI/UX, Smart AI, and Seamless Integrations
What do you like best about the product?
UI/UX and the AI intelligence, integrations
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with some common tools I use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Speeds up task solutions and simplification of Task
Best Tool for Brainstorming and Co-Working
What do you like best about the product?
This is the best tool for brainstorming and co-working.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it’s hard to use when working with large files.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I’m using it to brainstorm ideas and to take meeting notes before I start working.
Intuitive and Accessible, Minor Pricing Concerns
What do you like best about the product?
I like Miro for its ease of use, which makes it straightforward to navigate. I also appreciate the color palettes they choose, as they enhance the visual appeal of my projects. Additionally, the accessibility of Miro is very valuable because my audience needs accessibility. The initial setup was also very easy, which was a pleasant surprise.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Miro for business strategy.
Snappy Connectors and Effortless Sharing for Fast Flow Mapping
What do you like best about the product?
I was spending way too much time re-explaining the same user flows every time something changed. I’d build them in Figma, export frames as images, drop them into a doc, and send it over—and the moment one step shifted, the whole thing was outdated. A PM I was working with had used Miro at a previous company and suggested I try it for a product mapping session. That single session was enough to convince me.
What I kept coming back to was the connector behavior. When you’re mapping a flow with branching logic, you can drag a line from one shape, snap it to another, and when you move things around, the connectors re-route on their own. In Figma, I was manually nudging arrow endpoints every time I restructured something, and that basically stopped entirely.
Another feature I genuinely use is sticky note voting. I’d put ideas on the board, share the link, and my co-founder could dot-vote async without us needing a call. It’s a small thing, but it noticeably reduced our alignment calls during ideation phases.
The shareability also surprised me. I can paste a link in Slack and someone can open it and comment without an account. For a small team where not everyone lives in the same tools, that removes a lot of friction.
One thing that took me embarrassingly long to find: you can right-click on an empty part of the board to create a frame directly, without going back to the toolbar. Once I found it, I started using it constantly.
Overall, it feels best suited for product designers or startup founders who need collaborative thinking and product mapping across async teams.
What I kept coming back to was the connector behavior. When you’re mapping a flow with branching logic, you can drag a line from one shape, snap it to another, and when you move things around, the connectors re-route on their own. In Figma, I was manually nudging arrow endpoints every time I restructured something, and that basically stopped entirely.
Another feature I genuinely use is sticky note voting. I’d put ideas on the board, share the link, and my co-founder could dot-vote async without us needing a call. It’s a small thing, but it noticeably reduced our alignment calls during ideation phases.
The shareability also surprised me. I can paste a link in Slack and someone can open it and comment without an account. For a small team where not everyone lives in the same tools, that removes a lot of friction.
One thing that took me embarrassingly long to find: you can right-click on an empty part of the board to create a frame directly, without going back to the toolbar. Once I found it, I started using it constantly.
Overall, it feels best suited for product designers or startup founders who need collaborative thinking and product mapping across async teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
My biggest frustration came up during a live product walkthrough with a potential collaborator. I was zooming in and out to cover different sections of a large board, and there was a consistent half-second delay as the canvas caught up after each zoom. It wasn’t catastrophic, but it was noticeable enough that I stopped doing live board walkthroughs and started exporting a PDF instead. For a tool where the whole point is sharing the board, that workaround felt backwards.
The template library has also been less useful than I expected. I’d search for something like “user journey” and get fifteen results where maybe two were actually relevant; the rest seemed only loosely tagged. In the end, I ignored templates and built from scratch every time. That’s fine, but I went in expecting the library to save time, and it didn’t.
The main feature I’d genuinely like to see added is a proper section lock. If I have a finalized flow on one side of a board and an in-progress area on the other, there’s no clean way to lock the finished section. You can group elements and hope collaborators don’t ungroup them, but that’s not really a solution. It’s the kind of thing that starts to matter once your boards are shared with more than one or two people.
The template library has also been less useful than I expected. I’d search for something like “user journey” and get fifteen results where maybe two were actually relevant; the rest seemed only loosely tagged. In the end, I ignored templates and built from scratch every time. That’s fine, but I went in expecting the library to save time, and it didn’t.
The main feature I’d genuinely like to see added is a proper section lock. If I have a finalized flow on one side of a board and an in-progress area on the other, there’s no clean way to lock the finished section. You can group elements and hope collaborators don’t ungroup them, but that’s not really a solution. It’s the kind of thing that starts to matter once your boards are shared with more than one or two people.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The core problem for us was async alignment on product decisions. As a two-person founding team without a shared office, a lot of product thinking happened over chat and chat is terrible for visual, spatial ideas. I’d describe a flow in words, my co-founder would interpret it differently, we’d schedule a call to get on the same page, and suddenly 45 minutes were gone. That cycle was happening multiple times a week.
Miro reduced that friction a lot. I can build the flow directly, add stickies that explain the reasoning behind specific decisions, share a link, and then feedback comes back attached to the exact element it’s about—not floating in a Slack thread from three days ago. We probably cut two or three of those clarification calls per week, which really adds up.
The less obvious benefit has been in the earliest stage of product thinking, before anything is defined. Having a big open canvas where I can dump half-formed ideas and move them around without committing to a structure helps me think in a way I don’t in a doc. Some feature decisions for my product came out of a messy Miro board I’d never show anyone, simply because laying the problem out spatially made it easier to see what connected.
The main limitation I ran into was performance on larger boards. That pushed me to be more deliberate about keeping boards smaller and archiving older sections instead of letting everything pile up on one canvas.
It doesn’t solve every problem, but the specific cost of explaining a complex flow to someone who isn’t in the room is mostly gone.
Miro reduced that friction a lot. I can build the flow directly, add stickies that explain the reasoning behind specific decisions, share a link, and then feedback comes back attached to the exact element it’s about—not floating in a Slack thread from three days ago. We probably cut two or three of those clarification calls per week, which really adds up.
The less obvious benefit has been in the earliest stage of product thinking, before anything is defined. Having a big open canvas where I can dump half-formed ideas and move them around without committing to a structure helps me think in a way I don’t in a doc. Some feature decisions for my product came out of a messy Miro board I’d never show anyone, simply because laying the problem out spatially made it easier to see what connected.
The main limitation I ran into was performance on larger boards. That pushed me to be more deliberate about keeping boards smaller and archiving older sections instead of letting everything pile up on one canvas.
It doesn’t solve every problem, but the specific cost of explaining a complex flow to someone who isn’t in the room is mostly gone.
Miro Makes Collaborative Innovation Sessions Seamless
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Miro is its ability to blend structure with creativity during innovation sessions. It works incredibly well for presenting process flows while simultaneously capturing the team's brainstorming and process improvement ideas in real-time. It keeps everyone engaged and makes collaborative planning seamless.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve for first-time users or external clients can be a bit steep during live sessions. Also, when boards get crowded with lots of ideas and elements, performance can lag, and it's easy for participants to accidentally move parts of the process flow that were already set.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Challenge: In traditional presentations, one person shares their screen with a static slide or PDF, and everyone else just watches passively. Gathering feedback afterward becomes a messy chore of emails and chat messages.
It turns my innovation sessions into an interactive experience. Instead of just looking at a process flow, my team is actively building on top of it in real-time. They are dropping sticky notes, voting on ideas, and highlighting bottlenecks instantly. we walk out of the meeting with a completed workshop, not just a shared screen.
It turns my innovation sessions into an interactive experience. Instead of just looking at a process flow, my team is actively building on top of it in real-time. They are dropping sticky notes, voting on ideas, and highlighting bottlenecks instantly. we walk out of the meeting with a completed workshop, not just a shared screen.
A Great Digital Substitute for a Physical Canvas
What do you like best about the product?
I like that we can use it as a substitute for a physical canvas. The downside is that it’s easy to make a mess.
What do you dislike about the product?
It’s easy to make a mess and lose track of things.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps communication and collaboration across teams during workshops.
Visual Collaboration at Its Best with Miro
What do you like best about the product?
I love Miro for giving me a visual perspective of everything, which helps a lot in my work as a project manager. It's much nicer and more visual than using Excel for mapping out tasks. I really like that I can create a mind map to put everything that's in my mind on a piece of paper I can share with anyone. Sharing and working together on something is very easy with Miro. Uploading PDFs and images onto the map itself is also great, and I like that I can put charts and graphs anywhere on the board. The setup was easy for me, especially with templates and the ability to share across teams. I always recommend it and would give it a 10 out of 10.
What do you dislike about the product?
My old MacBook Air from 2016 took quite some time to load Miro, probably because it's a bit outdated. Another thing that was a bit challenging was when there was an update on Miro, it changed all the standard colors I was using for a project that lasted about three years, and it made things a bit difficult because the standard changed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Miro to map out projects and ideas, providing a visual perspective that's helpful. It's great for creating mind maps, sharing with others, and uploading PDFs and images for collaborative work.
Incredible for organizing ideas into practical visualizations in minutes
What do you like best about the product?
It's incredible how it manages to organize ideas into practical visualizations in just a few minutes. It's easy to use; the AI helps you when you have doubts, and the slides turn out very beautiful and practical.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think that, sometimes, I find it difficult to express my ideas exactly as I need to. However, I am learning to improve my prompts and little by little I am managing to express myself more clearly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly, it is helping me to unlock my ideas to communicate them better to my colleagues and some members of my team. I need them, and myself, to be able to see more clearly the concrete possibilities of our venture.
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