What do you like best about the product?

Miro tends to be the perfect meeting place outside of specialized tools. For example, Figma is a design tool that also has some shared/collaborative features, but it doesn't address the broader audience of a team like Miro does. I specifically like pre-built shapes such as sticky-notes for making quick notes in group workshops and the freedom of an infinite canvas to move and organize everything.

What do you dislike about the product?

Although individual notes are often self-contained, when there's a singular block of text such as a research summary, it's not possible to collaboratively type/edit in the same text box at the same time. It's not too bad to take turns contributing to the block of text or create separate ones and combine them later, but I think an ideal tool would have some collaborative editing like a google doc.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Product development lifecycle stuff:
User research notes, synthesizing information, brainstorms, and workshops to generate ideas from several people, and then converging again to consolidate strong ideas.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I often recommend that people explore the features such as following another person's view while they're sharing in a meeting (higher resolution than screen share) and also get to know the comments feature and drawing connection lines from object to object. These few things tend to increase what you get out of it.

What do you like best about the product?

I love the flexibility of the tool. If you need a mind map, you can mind map. If you need to sticky-note brainstorm in bulk digitally, you can do that. If you need to combine both and work with a remote team to get work done, it's indispensable!

What do you dislike about the product?

You can't share a link to a board and have anonymous people collaborate or view it like on Google Docs. I was running a workshop and used it for the first time and didn't realize it required people to sign up in order to contribute. It really slowed down the energy of the workshop.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Content strategies, organization restructures, content planning, business development. So many things. It's replaced my whiteboard completely, even though I have a physical one. I love that you can have an ongoing board no kids can mess up or colleagues erase so they can use it for their next meeting. It allows ideas to breathe and be refined/built over time.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Try it out for free to see if your team likes it and will adopt it. You can get a ton of use and if you find you keep running into features you need, it's well worth the price.

What do you like best about the product?

An incredible product for collaborative brainstorming, ideation, and conceptualization of anything you can imagine!

What do you dislike about the product?

There is no possibility to attach additional files (especially images) to the sticky cards, but I think this feature will be added in the future.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Analysis of concepts, decomposition of high-level problems, mind-mapping

What do you like best about the product?

Miro has a rich set of templates with previews to get you started.
Once we were comfortable we could explore the template created by the user community.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes it takes a while to find a mindmap on the canvas because it is so small. It may just be that we are new to Miro. There may be a way to tag or locate a diagram that we have not yet discovered.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our problem was collaborating as a team now that we will always be working remotely.
Miro has helped us:
- collaborate within a Zoom, Teams, or Skype session
- to focus on the task and not the tool
- improved brainstorming effort and team participation
- quickly resolve problems and
- easily develop new solutions

What do you like best about the product?

-Very easy to pick up and effortlessly start working without spending time looking around for things
-Amazing when used on an ipad or tablet
-Lots of amazing templates to use

What do you dislike about the product?

-The desktop app lags a little bit.
-The browser app is good but needs an external monitor to navigate quickly.
-Mobile apps can get better in terms of navigation

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

-Team collaboration with virtual teams. Brainstorming, ideation and whiteboard planning.
-Community templates to get you started quickly and very less learning curve

Recommendations to others considering the product:

1. Very easy to setup
2. Easy to onboard team members
3. Easy to communicate
4. Very easy to share on Zoom

What do you like best about the product?

1. The intuitive user interface makes it easy to learn for first-time users.
2.The infinite canvas is excellent for large workshops and projects to share and discuss throughout the process.
3. Real-time interaction between all participants makes the discussions more efficient.

What do you dislike about the product?

1. The web clipper still needs some improvement. It would be beneficial for discussions with information from the web as references.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Hosting remote workshops within the company during WFH.
2. Using Miro as a meeting agenda canvas and meeting notes during the meeting, making meetings much more efficient.
3. Use Miro's diagramming tools to draw beautiful flowcharts for presentations and for individual thinking as well.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Miro is a great tool for remote collaborations. The intuitive user interface makes it easy to learn for first-time users.
The infinite canvas is excellent for large workshops and projects to share and discuss throughout the process.
It even works well in face-to-face discussions, saving the time to organize and digitize physical post-its.

What do you like best about the product?

After testing Mural and Miro (Jamboard was too basic) I chose Miro. The tool menu is very intuitive, with very clear options and highly visual. I love that Miro is very user-friendly so it is a tool that I can introduce to a group of people that have never seen it and get them using it really fast without having to spend time in a long introduction. I also like that it works smooth and fast. A good performance is key for me since a slow reaction or small delays would be extremely annoying during a virtual meeting, so far I have had no problems with performance in virtual workshops. I also find extremely useful some functions like the timer, background music and the option for selecting a number of post-its and allow the participants to vote them. I also like the simplicity of the drawing tools. Maybe Mural can allow for more sophisticated figures and I have seen people using it for developing worflows and complex diagrams, but Miro serves most of my drawing needs to be able to set up the board for a group activity.

What do you dislike about the product?

I have mixed feelings regarding how tables are managed in Miro. Some functionalities are brilliant, but then for some common actions with tables Miro requires a different behaviour/interaction and it is a bit difficult to get used to it or to get someone new to use them easily. Still, this is a functionality for the owner of the board before using it with workshop participants, so it is not much of a problem. I also find a bit disappointing the mindmaps. There are many applications online that are really flexible and easy to use and Miro would benefit from trying to emulate them because mindmaps are also a very useful collaborative tool. So far I have not been able to include them in the activities I do with Miro because they end up being a bit "annoying" for the people trying to use them or they just lack a bit of variety in color options.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

In general, using virtual whiteboards is a very useful tool to make dynamic online workshops. What I need is to be able to have a group of 15 or 30 people being able to add post-its, vote for their favourite options and organise or give priority to ideas visually. For this, Miro has fully met all my expectations. I have ended up also using it for team building activities and ideas sketching in small groups of 2 or 3 people. I even have a board for having a broad picture of projects and activities my team is involved in with the added value of being able to share it with all the team.

What do you like best about the product?

With the transition to full remote, my development team was struggling to map out all requirements and details needed to release new features on time. We were finding out too late in the sprint cycles that areas were being missed and details were not fully captured at the start. As a product owner, this was my worst nightmare, so I scrambled to find a solution that would allow my team to brainstorm and whiteboard together while in a remote working environment.

Miro came to our rescue and provided the platform missing to allow my team the ability to "whiteboard it out" again. I took on the task of learning Miro so I could create boards and facilate meetings successfully. I have had to learn a lot of softwares throughout my years and I must say I was super impressed with Miro's training videos, learning academy, and online community; all videos, FAQ's, and training materials are truly top notch. I also attended a live webinar that gave me the foundational skills needed to get started. I found creating boards to be relatively user friendly and intuitive. There was a bit of a learning curve figuring out how to naviagate the board and learning the different tools available and how to use said tools, however I was able to get up to speed relatively quickly. I enjoyed utilizing the various templates available from the community and editing them to fit my needs. It was a great time saver to have a template to start from and some of the templates provided unique ideas for facilating different types of meetings that I would have never thought of myself. I was also able to share a quick "how to" video to my team prior to our Miro workshop which gave folks confidence to begin participating right from the start.

The very first workshop I hosted utilizing a Miro board was an absolute success which I attribute to all of the learning/training tools Miro provides. I received extremely positive feedback from all of my team members and even though we have only been using Miro for a short time now, I have seen vast improvements to our productivity and keeping to our release schedule. I have also seen improvements in innovation and problem solving on my team, as well as increased participation in meetings that we have moved over to using Miro boards for.

What do you dislike about the product?

When many individuals are on a board simultaneously, board elements can become slow to load, especially if there are many elements on the board. However, loading slowness has not affected our ability to host successful meetings. When individuals first join the board, it seems to start at a very zoomed-out view, and participants have found that to be confusing; I would prefer that participants are placed into the board with a focus on the first frame. I do wish Miro had a way to store meeting notes with the added ability to conduct keyword searches within multiple instances of said meeting notes. I also wish there was the option to add subfolders to Projects to allow organization of different boards within a Project more efficiently. I would love to see the ability to create new board elements such as custom shapes, icons, and frames easier. My workaround has been locating a template that has a similar shape/frame/icon and then editing it to adjust to my needs, I would much prefer to create board elements from scratch a bit easier than having to try and co-opt something else.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Miro solves the problem of brainstorming and collaborating while working in a remote environment. Miro has provided my team the platform needed to brainstorm not only synchronously but asynchronously as well. Miro also has the added benefit that an office whiteboard doesn't have, which is that all work is saved in a board and doesn't need to be erased to allow space for different whiteboarding / sticky note mapping sessions to take its place. Miro has many templates that provide creative and effective meeting hosting and facilitating tools and the online community is active and full of individuals with great ideas and innovative solutions. While we have only been using Miro for a short time now, I have seen vast improvements to our productivity and keeping to our release schedule. I have also seen improvements in innovation and problem solving on my team, as well as increased participation in meetings that we have moved over to using Miro boards for.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

My recommendation would be to spend some time in the learning academy before jumping into board creation to familiarize yourself with the tools available and to create a foundation for success. I also recommend having participants spend about 10 minutes before using Miro to watch a brief overview video to learn the basic skills needed to participate. I have found allowing 10-15 minutes at the start of a Miro meeting for an icebreaker activity that utilizes basic board functions and tools allow participants time to get comfortable with using Miro and has fostered an environment for creativity and max participation.

What do you like best about the product?

Board, post its, comments, visualization, unlimited space in one board

What do you dislike about the product?

When I have used a lot of space on the board sometimes, I find it hard to find where I was. I want to update to premium, but premium costs are quite high.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy to communicate ideas with mind maps. Easy to evaluate product features and get feedback from the team. Miro has helped us work remotely with team members.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I shared this on my LinkedIn account earlier this month and I copy-paste it from my feed: Did you start using Miro to run Creative Sessions and workshops? As the pandemic forced us into remote working, we started using it for our innovation sessions, and I'd like to recommend it as a collaborative tool. They have this small course about User Experience Design, which is worth watching! #userexperiencedesign #designresearch #userexperience

What do you like best about the product?

Miro is great for working together as a team. I like to run little workshops instead of meetings, and Miro is a great tool to get everyone involved.

I like having infinite space to work on, so I can make sure everything fits.

What do you dislike about the product?

I would need a way of filtering content, eg tables, to only work on a certain category at the time without needing to reorganize content manually.

Miro is so popular in our organization I sometimes get lost in all the Miro boards when trying to find a board.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Planning and brainstorming remotely. Working together simultaneously.