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Great white boarding tool for remote collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to quickly visualize ideas through various ways (post-it notes, quick drawings, wireframing). This helps us create quick designs that further discussions. As we all are remote at this time, this is critical since we all can't stand next to a whiteboard. once we have an alignment in the team, we can use the same quick visuals to validate our ideas with customers.
What do you dislike about the product?
It has a lot of features, and I am just not aware of all the great features. As I was looking to find what I dislike, I noticed another feature I would benefit from using. Another potential problem (but I don't think that is Miro), is the single sign-on we have. any new user has to go through our IT team before they can start contributing. This causes issues if someone forgot to go through that step before a workshop.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am primarily using it for design definition work and aligning designers, product management, and engineering on the direction the design should take. By making it visual, we all can make sure we have a common understanding of what we think should be built and, easily address any differences in opinions. We also use those "crappy" designs to validate with customers we are on the right track before even starting to do any more detailed design.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I have used a few other whiteboard collaboration tools, but none of them have measured up to what Miro delivers.
Give Miro a try, it is very intuitive to get started with and also supports many different needs.
Give Miro a try, it is very intuitive to get started with and also supports many different needs.
Miro gets the little things AND the big things right. Hands down the best!
What do you like best about the product?
As a facilitator, designing and setting up collaboration spaces for even the most complex working sessions is so much easier than MURAL. Objects snap more intuitively, grouping and arranging sticky notes is 10x faster and less cumbersome, text can be bulleted, and frames (or entire boards) can be immediately exported and downloaded (MURAL takes longer and sends an email vs. downloading directly in browser. Tech support is amazing, responsive, and super timely. The user experience is, by all accounts from my workshop participants, engaging, easy to learn, and fun. I have used both MURAL and Miro for over a year now, and Miro is hands-down my favorite.
What do you dislike about the product?
My only complaint about Miro is their in-line voting capability. It is clunkier than MURAL and very slow (I have to find some witty patter to keep people from disengaging while Miro is tabulating results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
An entire facilitation business--around 50 workshops a year--moved from Face-to-Face (flipcharts, post-its, whiteboards, etc.) to virtual thanks entirely to Miro. People love the experience and always comment at the end of workshops how they can't believe how quickly the time passed and how engaged everyone was until the very end. This tool literally saved my business from the jaws of a global pandemic.
The Perfect Tool for Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Miro has many great features:
- it's simple to get started - you have an infinite canvas. But they have many templates to help you get started - from sprint retros, to project planning, even design sprints!
- New features are constantly being added: a countdown timer, when you want to give team members time to fill out sticky notes
- it's got a cool voting feature to vote on people's stickies
- it's easy to share - people don't need an account
- For UX Designers: it's excellent for creating affinity diagrams. I'm not sure I'll go back to doing affinity diagrams on the wall after this!
- it's simple to get started - you have an infinite canvas. But they have many templates to help you get started - from sprint retros, to project planning, even design sprints!
- New features are constantly being added: a countdown timer, when you want to give team members time to fill out sticky notes
- it's got a cool voting feature to vote on people's stickies
- it's easy to share - people don't need an account
- For UX Designers: it's excellent for creating affinity diagrams. I'm not sure I'll go back to doing affinity diagrams on the wall after this!
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, I can't think of anything. The tool is constantly being improved with new features, quick, fast, and easy to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- It helps to visualize problems in a space that is not an Office doc (like Excel sheets)
-- as a result of it being visual, it lends itself to collaboration and solid work. A meeting with Miro is one where you're working towards something.
- We've done design sprints in Miro
- We've created affinity diagrams in Miro
- We do our sprint retros in Miro
- We make roadmaps in Miro
- We do PIE (priority, impact, effort) charts in Miro
- - At one point we even used it for an activity at an online conference, and we had a dozen people filling out boards with stickies, and all were new to using Miro
-- as a result of it being visual, it lends itself to collaboration and solid work. A meeting with Miro is one where you're working towards something.
- We've done design sprints in Miro
- We've created affinity diagrams in Miro
- We do our sprint retros in Miro
- We make roadmaps in Miro
- We do PIE (priority, impact, effort) charts in Miro
- - At one point we even used it for an activity at an online conference, and we had a dozen people filling out boards with stickies, and all were new to using Miro
Team collaboration at its digital best for product designers, UX and project delivery.
What do you like best about the product?
Miro makes it super easy for teams to work together remotely and collaborate on almost anything. Workshops are a breeze, even with people located all over the place. It is really team collaboration at its digital best for product designers, UX and project delivery. I would highly recommend this for any teams working on solving problems, gathering ideas or developing designs for end users.
One of the best aspects is the ability to have guest editors access and use the boards by simply sharing a link.
One of the best aspects is the ability to have guest editors access and use the boards by simply sharing a link.
What do you dislike about the product?
Licencing and team admin menus could be a little better designed. Sometimes it's hard to tell who has what level of access. Also, it would be great to be able to assign licences on and off to team members who may have ad hoc uses for them.
The only downside I can see at the moment is that we don't have an enterprise library of boards that could be accessed. Other than that, there is not much that I dislike about Miro.
One of the things I dislike is that it can be a bit confusing for new users or guests in boards to navigate the boards. Having a quick tutorial for guest users would be really helpful.
The only downside I can see at the moment is that we don't have an enterprise library of boards that could be accessed. Other than that, there is not much that I dislike about Miro.
One of the things I dislike is that it can be a bit confusing for new users or guests in boards to navigate the boards. Having a quick tutorial for guest users would be really helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Design of customer journeys, ideation, service design. We can harness lots of ideas from many individuals quickly and easily. The templates are so easy to use and really make it a breeze to set up boards quickly for successful workshops. The guidance notes that come with the templates and explanations on the methodology is really helpful. I have learned a lot about applying different methodologies to problems we are trying to solve.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the templates as much as possible. They are really simple to use and make it super fast to set up new boards for collaboration.
"Miro is like art for my business creativity"
What do you like best about the product?
It has been fantastic this past year for conducting high stakes “interactive” workshops that feel designed, in lieu of in-person workshops. The wide canvas allows you to creatively lay out content in any direction. The title of my review actually comes from a reply from @AssistanceHQ on a recent Twitter thread on great enterprise software UX.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's jarring to jump or zoom when presenting to others (kind of nauseating too). Setting up presentation mode is too burdensome, having to drag boards into the right order (prefer Figma approach where you can link up animations free style). Wish there was also a better, lightweight version (fewer bells and whistles) to share Miro boards with new, non logged in users when facilitating larger workshops with people who otherwise feel overwhelmed by all the features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solved a lot of problems around visual, unstructured conversations with my team during Work From Pandemic mode. Also helps create a visual artifact of your work to be able to go back and remember the chain of decision making.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great, reasonably priced choice for small teams. Easy to set up different project spaces for different clients when working in a consulting capacity.
A must have collaboration tool
What do you like best about the product?
Miro allows quick creation and collaboration with team members with just the right amount of tools. Having icons in the app is perfect for throwing together ideas and mapping UI flows. This tool allows me to really put it all down and then organize and get my ideas into a better form before I invest in doing detail work - it saves me hours or redoing mockups. Having integrations with other apps like Sketch really help this fit into my workflow.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some things like multi select have a little learning curve. Need to have a way to recolor icons for use in UI mockups.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Miro solves the problem of taking the first idea of a project and mapping it out and creating wireframe design. It's made us more free to be creative. The app doesn't get in the way and allows us to brainstorm and bluesky ideas and then come to decisions. It's a great time saver and also let's us show stakeholders our thought process without them feeling this is final design ideas.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Miro is a great tool, easy to use and helps problem solving. It goes beyond basic mindmapping and really allows you to engage your team and stakeholders and "show your work".
Fantastic tool for Design Documents and Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use editing tools. Wide variety of templates and intuitive UI. It's also easy to collaborate since as soon as I become an expert (which happens in say 3/4 uses), I can show around another colleague and quickly ramp them up too.
The color schemas are really great.
Ease of Reuse of templates and a good set of shapes/flow-chart components and easy to edit text shapes.
The color schemas are really great.
Ease of Reuse of templates and a good set of shapes/flow-chart components and easy to edit text shapes.
What do you dislike about the product?
"Export as image" has very few options. I've to download 4 different types before figuring out which would be of required clarity, and often even after exploring it's not as good as I expect.
It'll be great to have more templates targetted towards Software Engineering.
It'd also be great ot have a direct integration with GoogleDocs/Notion. There seems to be a share option (a link for sharing Miro directly but not onto a Doc), and there's also a Save to Google Drive button, but no direct way to embed a frame inside a Google Doc. So I'm forced to make changes in the Miro app, export it as an image, and save it to my Google Doc. Issue is sometimes, there are small changes that I want to make (like adding an extra word inside a box), and I have to repeat the entire cycle - this would have been easier if there was option to embed Miro inside Google doc, and I could edit it there directly.
It'll be great to have more templates targetted towards Software Engineering.
It'd also be great ot have a direct integration with GoogleDocs/Notion. There seems to be a share option (a link for sharing Miro directly but not onto a Doc), and there's also a Save to Google Drive button, but no direct way to embed a frame inside a Google Doc. So I'm forced to make changes in the Miro app, export it as an image, and save it to my Google Doc. Issue is sometimes, there are small changes that I want to make (like adding an extra word inside a box), and I have to repeat the entire cycle - this would have been easier if there was option to embed Miro inside Google doc, and I could edit it there directly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Design Docs and Presentations for complex Software Designs and Algorithms - I make these quickly using Miro, and export to required docs
Also, I use the same frame for collaboration between team mates
I have gotten a lot of complements from my teammates for increasing the clarity in design documents. The benefit is compounded because when I use Miro for one document, the fact that I can re-use the shapes/flow charts etc I created, helps me quickly spin-up another set of diagrams. This encourages me to invest some time in my initial designs - make them even better.
Also, I use the same frame for collaboration between team mates
I have gotten a lot of complements from my teammates for increasing the clarity in design documents. The benefit is compounded because when I use Miro for one document, the fact that I can re-use the shapes/flow charts etc I created, helps me quickly spin-up another set of diagrams. This encourages me to invest some time in my initial designs - make them even better.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
*Try out the tutorials (even if the tool is easy to use), you'll see a couple of cool new tricks that can speed up your workflow
* They have a trial period, so if you are unsure, use it for the trial period and then switch, I am sure you'll love it!
* They have a trial period, so if you are unsure, use it for the trial period and then switch, I am sure you'll love it!
A perfect e-teaching tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like best the usability of the blank page, the many different features, the plug ins, and I love the PDF download possibility to keep a trace of the work while changing to a new PDF. It allows to keep some tracability of the changes and historicity.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm not too fond of the limits of the free option and I would prefer another way to see others' presence on the board. Often it masks the text behind the mouse because they do not know how to use the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Miro both as a whiteboard, a slider, a small-group playground, and a visualizer. It allows me to teach from aboard, manage my teams, and organize long-term projects. I win time, I avoid multiplying tools, and I keep an eye on my collaborators' work. I love looking at what they do all together at the same time. They like the way of working on Miro.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take enough time to manipulate Miro with the collaborators before launching the principal activity of your day so they can acclimate themselves with it.
The number 1 BEST tool for virtual brainstorming and feature scoping, BY FAR!
What do you like best about the product?
Their infinite canvas is the best - you aren't restrained by a pre-sized document that doesn't work for you. Stickies are the best of any whiteboarding tool I've used. And their integrations - with Jira, Google, and other products make it super extensible.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be great if they had some kind of calendar template or feature. I do a lot of schedule ideating with teams and a pre-set calendar would be amazing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work with teams to have blue sky conversations around product design. With its infinite canvas and many useful tools, Miro really allows for open conversations that help our teams to build amazing things truly collaboratively and without restraint.
Not sure how I would run virtual meetings and workshops without Miro in my toolkit
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy the real-time collaboration and getting to see how people contribute in real time. The timer feature and voting are great feature adds for workshop facilitators.
What do you dislike about the product?
Frames are great, but sometimes can be hard to find things when you have so many of them! Maybe this is user error, though, and I need to learn how to better set-up and organize my boards :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
virtual collaboration, brainstorming, just getting ideas out and on "paper," research analysis, workflow diagramming, real-time collaboration that gets the entire team involved and their hands dirty
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