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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 :) !!!
Great tool to facilitate team work
What do you like best about the product?
I'm an independent consultant, and I have used Miro to facilitate workshops and meetings with the teams that I work with. It has made collaboration much easier by allowing us all to work together in real time, and have a record to come back to in order to better track our learning and progress.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it can be challenging to get team members up to speed quickly who haven't used Miro before and might be less technologically savvy. However, I find that once they get it, it becomes relatively easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has been a helpful way to collaborate in our current virtual environment. Although it doesn't replace in-person workshops and meetings, it seems to be the next-best thing. So grateful for this tool!
Great for online collabs. Brings back all the feels of working with physical post-its :)
What do you like best about the product?
Makes visualisation a breeze for online collaborations, especially for collabs where alot of Design Thinking, User Journey Mapping etc processes are used.
The sticky note function and ease of clustering or moving it - i think it mimics real-life usage of post-its for ideation sessions and feedback sessions. It was fast, seamless and an all-round pleasure to use for clustering and further analysis of the responses. Stickies could also be easily resized.
The lock function - i think some may underrate this but for me, this was one of the most helpful functions available when collaborating online, especially with people who are new to the platform. Being able to lock items on the board (frames/diagrams/stickies/pictures etc) to prevent accidental shifting by collaborators was a huge plus and a total time saver. The time that i would have had to spend on moving the items back could be channelled towards other things in the collaboration.
The templates - they were very helpful and there is quite a variety to choose from as well.
Creating frames and being able to present these frames as slides directly from miro was very helpful in having to double the work of creating a google slide deck for it.
The "bring to me button" - this was super useful in bringing any group member who may be lost in the navigation of the boards over to the specific frame you are working on. Saves time from having to "hunt down" the collaborators and guiding them to go where you want them to. Used it often during my collabs when working with new users.
The sticky note function and ease of clustering or moving it - i think it mimics real-life usage of post-its for ideation sessions and feedback sessions. It was fast, seamless and an all-round pleasure to use for clustering and further analysis of the responses. Stickies could also be easily resized.
The lock function - i think some may underrate this but for me, this was one of the most helpful functions available when collaborating online, especially with people who are new to the platform. Being able to lock items on the board (frames/diagrams/stickies/pictures etc) to prevent accidental shifting by collaborators was a huge plus and a total time saver. The time that i would have had to spend on moving the items back could be channelled towards other things in the collaboration.
The templates - they were very helpful and there is quite a variety to choose from as well.
Creating frames and being able to present these frames as slides directly from miro was very helpful in having to double the work of creating a google slide deck for it.
The "bring to me button" - this was super useful in bringing any group member who may be lost in the navigation of the boards over to the specific frame you are working on. Saves time from having to "hunt down" the collaborators and guiding them to go where you want them to. Used it often during my collabs when working with new users.
What do you dislike about the product?
Screenshots - Somehow when taking screenshots and copying it to another software like ppt/google slides, significant resolution is lost.
Switching between the pan mode vs normal cursor and edit modes. Am accessing Miro via a web browser on a Windows laptop. The shortcut that the Mac users have to switch between these 2 modes does not seem to work for me, which makes it tougher as i have to remember to click on the side icon menu to make sure i am in the correct mode while navigating the miro board.
Spacing between frames - thought it would be good if Miro could advise on the ideal spacing between frames such that neighbouring frames do not show up in presentation mode.
Lack of simulataneous editing within the same text box. Sometimes users who edit text within the same text box forgets to unclick the text box when they are done. As such, i will not be able to edit that text box until they unclick it, which is frustrating
Lack of ability to edit background of the pictures/icons i paste in.
Switching between the pan mode vs normal cursor and edit modes. Am accessing Miro via a web browser on a Windows laptop. The shortcut that the Mac users have to switch between these 2 modes does not seem to work for me, which makes it tougher as i have to remember to click on the side icon menu to make sure i am in the correct mode while navigating the miro board.
Spacing between frames - thought it would be good if Miro could advise on the ideal spacing between frames such that neighbouring frames do not show up in presentation mode.
Lack of simulataneous editing within the same text box. Sometimes users who edit text within the same text box forgets to unclick the text box when they are done. As such, i will not be able to edit that text box until they unclick it, which is frustrating
Lack of ability to edit background of the pictures/icons i paste in.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As part of my studies - a slew of projects relating to user journey mapping, experience design, design thinking, empathy map with users etc
I think miro is great for capturing everything in one side, via a flat layout. Depending on how you would structure the information needed, miro can serve as a great tool for presenting your ideas and research.
Miro is also a nice tool to use for workshop/class engagement, where all participants can come onto the same board and work on their projects/discussions in different frames. It is chaotic at times but it is great to see all the work come together in various boards.
Miro shines when doing analysis and clustering of results. The ease of moving and grouping the sticky notes is my fav feature of this platform. Saves us from wasting paper too compared to real life postit notes clustering. Plus everything is captured digitally so its just a matter of exporting the work to share about it on other platforms.
I think miro is great for capturing everything in one side, via a flat layout. Depending on how you would structure the information needed, miro can serve as a great tool for presenting your ideas and research.
Miro is also a nice tool to use for workshop/class engagement, where all participants can come onto the same board and work on their projects/discussions in different frames. It is chaotic at times but it is great to see all the work come together in various boards.
Miro shines when doing analysis and clustering of results. The ease of moving and grouping the sticky notes is my fav feature of this platform. Saves us from wasting paper too compared to real life postit notes clustering. Plus everything is captured digitally so its just a matter of exporting the work to share about it on other platforms.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it. There may be some initial confusion as you get started, but it is worth it. Unless there is a better tool, i foresee myself using miro for quite my work/studies/personal projects.
Amazing software for the ideation, visualization, and collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
It's easily one of the most user-friendly UX's I've ever used... every person I've put in front of it regardless of their technical skills seems to pick it up rather quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Very few things to write here... not sure if there's a way yet but it would be nice to have your own object templates that are organized in their own library
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps with exploring nearly every kind of problem and translating any process... it's beauty is in it's simplicity
Recommendations to others considering the product:
try it! see if you like it before having an opinion
Fantastic for work with some room to grow in personal development
What do you like best about the product?
Templates so that I can quickly start a project. I like the wide-ranging business templates available so that I don't need to sit there and create a template. It helps with team brainstorming sessions and cuts down on the work I have to do before a group meeting. We have used several different boards for different projects where we can just set up a template. Work through the problem, and then come back and pick up where we left off the next time. I would say that I find the template I am looking for about 70% of the time. I think further improving that system would be well worth the time. It's the part of the app where I find the most value.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have several things that I wish would be improved. The first is the line system. There are times when I want to make a hierarchal system and find that I need to have several lines come off of the same object and go into separate objects. A one-to-many sort of approach. It is almost impossible to get this looking clean. I always end up with one line intersection being just higher than another line intersection, or a line coming off an object is just to the left of another line coming off an object. I know it seems like a minor thing. But when I am trying to do a presentation, the details are essential. So I feel like improving the aesthetic of the line system would be helpful.
The other thing that I would like to see improved is the number of templates for personal development. I use miro on my business account for business-related things like Agile planning, refinement, etc. But I also use miro on my personal account for vision boarding, goal setting, habit tracking, etc. I think that there should be some more templates aimed at that. Templates that are for personal development that aren't necessarily associated with business objectives directly. That would take miro to the next level for me and keep me from potentially looking for other solutions like milanote and figma that do have some of those capabilities.
The final thing that I'd like to see. Miro can sometimes get a bit laggy when many people are working on the board at once. This is something that I don't see when I am doing a Figjam in Figma. As an engineer, I know how difficult to optimize that can be, but I'd love to see miro be a little more fluid with a lot of people moving a lot of objects simultaneously.
The other thing that I would like to see improved is the number of templates for personal development. I use miro on my business account for business-related things like Agile planning, refinement, etc. But I also use miro on my personal account for vision boarding, goal setting, habit tracking, etc. I think that there should be some more templates aimed at that. Templates that are for personal development that aren't necessarily associated with business objectives directly. That would take miro to the next level for me and keep me from potentially looking for other solutions like milanote and figma that do have some of those capabilities.
The final thing that I'd like to see. Miro can sometimes get a bit laggy when many people are working on the board at once. This is something that I don't see when I am doing a Figjam in Figma. As an engineer, I know how difficult to optimize that can be, but I'd love to see miro be a little more fluid with a lot of people moving a lot of objects simultaneously.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My company is one hundred percent remote. I always have been, probably always will be. Miro has helped us solve the issue of not being able to sit down in front of a whiteboard and think through a solution. It has allowed us to collaborate quickly and work through different solutions until we find the one that works best for us. It has allowed us to rapidly work through a solution and develop ideas to implement that solution.
I also use it personally to help connect ideas and capture all the information about a project in one place. It's nice to put my own objects together and then use the features like sticky notes and arrows to add notes and connections. It helps me visualize the complexities of a project and string together all the dependencies that are needed to move a project forward.
For my own personal development, it helps to sort out my goals and keep track of them. I can come up with many different ways to track all the personal growth challenges that I have and keep track of them. It is as flexible as I want it to be in that regard.
I also use it personally to help connect ideas and capture all the information about a project in one place. It's nice to put my own objects together and then use the features like sticky notes and arrows to add notes and connections. It helps me visualize the complexities of a project and string together all the dependencies that are needed to move a project forward.
For my own personal development, it helps to sort out my goals and keep track of them. I can come up with many different ways to track all the personal growth challenges that I have and keep track of them. It is as flexible as I want it to be in that regard.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I'd say to pick a template for a project you are working on and work through that. That is probably going to be your best bet on figuring out if Miro is best for you. Once you have one board filled out, you will know the value proposition of Miro.
The right balance
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is a great tool. What I like most about this type of tool is its the ease of use coupled with a smart feedback mechanism that has no visual excess. They have found the right balance to keeps its users focused on the task at hand with keyboard shortcuts, no information overload, or any clutter. It results in a great user experience that makes the learning curve almost instant.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would have to say the free trial. Even though the Miro team offers us three free drafts to work on, I found it pretty limiting, especially in this time of Covid.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Miro as a whiteboard to help me create/solve complex user flows quickly. Thank’s to its draggable elements, it is effortless for me to pivot my ideas around the problem.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
As the name says, it is an excellent digital whiteboard with many different templates that will help the users get started.
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