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Usefull, simple, beautyful
What do you like best about the product?
It's simple to use and designed thinking on the user. It's the most comprehensive and versatile tool to work collaboratively online.
What do you dislike about the product?
Miro should work harder to connect people in video calls like Meet of Teams and integrate it into the workflow that now offers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Most important, it lets me work in a program for education. That helped me work in class without payment.
Great whiteboarding tool
What do you like best about the product?
Miro has a wide array of suggested templates for whiteboarding. It's really helpful to have those to draw from when creating a new whiteboard for a meeting. I also like the polling feature; it has been a quick and easy tool to use to get additional feedback.
What do you dislike about the product?
For certain features, I'd like a wider array of color options or the options to input my own so I could keep it branded to my business. Navigation is not always easy if you have multiple components of a board, though the frame feature helps a lot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used Miro heavily for virtual collaboration; it really helped when we physically couldn't meet together for our annual strategic planning sessions. Additionally, I appreciate that I can have people join the board outside of the meeting to leave feedback or vote; it has helped prioritize our meeting time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Of the virtual whiteboarding tools, Miro has a fun and user-friendly interface. They are constantly updating it with new templates and tips to ensure freshness. I've found it to be a beneficial tool, both for organizing my own thoughts and facilitating workshops.
The right tool for team collaboration & brainstorming.
What do you like best about the product?
The ready-to-use templates are available makes it very much easy to brainstorm right on the go without having to design elements and components from scratch.
Apart from the templates, as a part of our organization. we have conducted focus groups to understand our customer segments and have found very insightful results.
In addition to my college-related activities, we had the opportunity to teach school/college lecturers & professors to use Miro after which, there's been a considerable increase in the engagement in the classrooms due to a very intuitive and inclusive environment created.
Last but not the least, the ability to paste anything and everything from the web has been a lifesaver when it comes to quickly paste it on the board rather than taking the trouble of downloading images or videos from the web, store in the local storage, and then drop it onto the board.
Apart from the templates, as a part of our organization. we have conducted focus groups to understand our customer segments and have found very insightful results.
In addition to my college-related activities, we had the opportunity to teach school/college lecturers & professors to use Miro after which, there's been a considerable increase in the engagement in the classrooms due to a very intuitive and inclusive environment created.
Last but not the least, the ability to paste anything and everything from the web has been a lifesaver when it comes to quickly paste it on the board rather than taking the trouble of downloading images or videos from the web, store in the local storage, and then drop it onto the board.
What do you dislike about the product?
Primary concerns from my end revolve around the dashboard which according could be way more organized when it comes to an individual being on multiple teams.
In my opinion, I've found it to be less organized and often find it hard while navigating. In addition to this, I also would prefer the thumbnails on the dashboard to be updated in real-time to make sure that as a user it often becomes easy to pick up from where you left off.
In my opinion, I've found it to be less organized and often find it hard while navigating. In addition to this, I also would prefer the thumbnails on the dashboard to be updated in real-time to make sure that as a user it often becomes easy to pick up from where you left off.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As from Miro, I have not only been benefitted by following Industry Standard Frameworks through my design process but also making sure that during these tough times, there is an inclusive environment in the team created, while remotely working.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There are a lot of options which has similar to Miro, which would intuit you using their features. If you are someone looking to get a brainstorming and whiteboard application, I highly recommend Miro to anyone and everyone, not because of its features but more importantly how they've built their product keeping the experience of users in mind ranging in various age groups.
My Miro review
What do you like best about the product?
Great design. it’s pleasant to work in Miro boards, the look appeals to users
Flexibility of the usage: it can be used for lots of purposes
Embedded features such as tables, timers, voting mechanisms
Availabity and diversity of free templates, available on Miroverse
Inspiring social media communication, providing useful examples, use cases, user stories
Flexibility of the usage: it can be used for lots of purposes
Embedded features such as tables, timers, voting mechanisms
Availabity and diversity of free templates, available on Miroverse
Inspiring social media communication, providing useful examples, use cases, user stories
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing policy is not so clear (and quite expensive), there are sometimes double couting of users when they belong to several teams.
Limitation of number of rows in tables is too low for me.
The notification system could be improved (not easy to see all the open comments addressed to me)
Miro is not easy to use without a mouse (don’t rely on your touchpad)
Exports of boards to standard tools (Powerpoint...) could be improved, even if there are some possibilities
Miro can be slow to load for very large boards
Limitation of number of rows in tables is too low for me.
The notification system could be improved (not easy to see all the open comments addressed to me)
Miro is not easy to use without a mouse (don’t rely on your touchpad)
Exports of boards to standard tools (Powerpoint...) could be improved, even if there are some possibilities
Miro can be slow to load for very large boards
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Remote collaboration on big projects: all the information on a few large visual boards
Smooth workshops with more than 150 participants at the same time
Sprint retrospectives are managed in Miro in an efficient way
Instant remote brainstorming: easy to create a board, share a link and start brainstorming
Smooth workshops with more than 150 participants at the same time
Sprint retrospectives are managed in Miro in an efficient way
Instant remote brainstorming: easy to create a board, share a link and start brainstorming
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Train the new users, schedule a few minutes at the beginning of workshops to onboard newcomers
Define rules of best practices to have a standard way of working
Explore Miroverse templates and follow Miro social media communications; it can be inspiring
Define rules of best practices to have a standard way of working
Explore Miroverse templates and follow Miro social media communications; it can be inspiring
Miro help us get communicated and quality deliverables especially when WFH
What do you like best about the product?
Miro helps us get in touch without being in the same room. The remote whiteboard is perfect for working sessions or just to gather all the ideas in one place. The video chat and integrations are awesome and they should be adding more and improving them. There's no one perfect platform to do everything, but if you can connect all your tools this comes pretty near.
What do you dislike about the product?
The new history feature is useful but a lot of our team members are using the kanban board. That just has to be improved, regarding task tracking, start and end date, and progress of each task. Also people get confused and suddenly they want to do everything in Miro, We still have to make the differentiation between an open workings space, a task manager and a calendar manger.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Not being in the same room is not a problem anymore, actually is more convenient.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it as a blank space and watch the tutorials on Youtube, the quality is amazing and it helps a lot to understand how to use the product.
Try the template library there are huge and a lot of the works can be reused. Also, don't spend a lot of time working on your own, it's is a collaboration platform so it's more fun when a lot of team member is working at the same time.
Try using the video chat feature, is super helpful to see your teamates while working on each board or frame.
Try the template library there are huge and a lot of the works can be reused. Also, don't spend a lot of time working on your own, it's is a collaboration platform so it's more fun when a lot of team member is working at the same time.
Try using the video chat feature, is super helpful to see your teamates while working on each board or frame.
Indispensable tool for Remote Productivity Teams & Client Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
We use the Zoho One Platform and I'm loathe to pay for more subscriptions, particularly if it's functionality that we can build or adapt for ourselves somehow. Miro, along with Zoom and a few others, is just indispensable. If you use it and commit to taking advantage of its features, it will prove its worth 10x over what it costs in fees. In a remote world, meetings need to be run-well and engaging and Miro is an incredible tool to make this happen and keep things interesting, focussed and collaborative - with team members and clients alike. As well, if you have a measure-twice, cut-once culture, then you need to be drafting, planning and concepting a LOT. Miro is indispensable here.
What do you dislike about the product?
My ONLY ask: I regularly freeze panes and then forget to unlock when I'm cloning items. Would be handy to have an auto-unlock feature with cloning, so you're not left with stranded items as your copying and pasting with elements. Also, manipulating layers is slightly less ideal than in full-blown vector based Adobe Illustrator. It would be nice to have a "move this item 1 layer back" instead of an all-or-nothing "all back" or "all front" option. Spreadsheet integration could also be reexamined. I find it a bit difficult to work with tables, e.g. columns/rows. Also - imports of excel data into Miro auto-defaults to stickers. This is not bad, but it would be cool to have other options (e.g. if it could default into a table format).
Subscriber admin priveleges need to be improved: I wish, as the OWNER of the product that I could administratively manage all projects, even those created by other members of the team. It's frustrating to have to get an employee who is an admin on a project they created to make small edits. At present, I have to wait for them to rename a project, etc. I should be able to have super-master-admin-master-of-the-universe powers if I'm paying for the software.
Subscriber admin priveleges need to be improved: I wish, as the OWNER of the product that I could administratively manage all projects, even those created by other members of the team. It's frustrating to have to get an employee who is an admin on a project they created to make small edits. At present, I have to wait for them to rename a project, etc. I should be able to have super-master-admin-master-of-the-universe powers if I'm paying for the software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're an accounting firm and we have found Miro to be useful to help map out Charts of Accounts, to specify recommended child-parent heirarchies, to colour code team members and clients and to help us in mapping/concepting across a million other applications. Oh, and you can use it for live video meetings. I also love it for social media management. We queue up all our posts, draft to our hearts content and then we can then integrate Hootsuite, Soho Social or whatever else we're using to put the final content in. A lot of applications have some level of queuing support, but they're not really best used for drafting/development. Miro succeeds in unmatched blending of almost any type of content together in a visually interesting way. Need emojis? Need mind-mapping toolls - its all there. The number of templates is also crazy. Chances are, some organization has a methodology or concept map that can help you with what you're working with. Clients also love looking at something you prepped & made professional for a meeting rather than just your face blabbing on zoom. Overall, awesome app, definitely 5 stars!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need to collaborate virtually or run meetings more effiicently and track progress week over week - Miro is your friend. It works seamlessly with a project management tool like monday.com or Zoho Project. You will be blown away by he number of workflows that get better with Miro. But, there is a learning curve, and be willing to watch those training videos and really learn all the use cases. Make sure you train your team to get the full benefits.
Miro is my passion & life saver
What do you like best about the product?
- compeltely customizable: you can play a lot and enever get bored
- a space for creativity: you have total freedom to create whatever you can & even can't imagine
- super user friendly interface: 2 min for onboarding newcomers
- cross-platform: I usually srart on my desktop app, then swith to iPad for some drawing, and can upload a photo of stickies from my iPhone
- interactive: you feel like a creator; you want to try everything & invent new things
- visually good looking: it's aesthetically pleasant to work with this tool; it's also possible to use miro for both "dirty back end work" and "shiny front end" presentations & performances
- can be used for various purposes: workshops, life plans, team check ins, board games, etc.
- timer function: using all the time for workshops
- a space for creativity: you have total freedom to create whatever you can & even can't imagine
- super user friendly interface: 2 min for onboarding newcomers
- cross-platform: I usually srart on my desktop app, then swith to iPad for some drawing, and can upload a photo of stickies from my iPhone
- interactive: you feel like a creator; you want to try everything & invent new things
- visually good looking: it's aesthetically pleasant to work with this tool; it's also possible to use miro for both "dirty back end work" and "shiny front end" presentations & performances
- can be used for various purposes: workshops, life plans, team check ins, board games, etc.
- timer function: using all the time for workshops
What do you dislike about the product?
- browser version is lagging: I'm using macOS Big Sur 11.4, had to switch to the desktop app only; tried with Safari & Chrome, both lagging & crashing down
- exporting as pdf sometimes doesn't work: needed to export a huge table, just stopped working
- lack of fonts, especially cyrillic
- lack of editing functions for images: would be amazing to be able to at least rotate & crop uploaded pictures
- limited drawing tools: I'm using iPad + pencil, and it takes time to choose the proper scale; additionally, it's only three active colors and one pen & one highlighter
- exporting as pdf sometimes doesn't work: needed to export a huge table, just stopped working
- lack of fonts, especially cyrillic
- lack of editing functions for images: would be amazing to be able to at least rotate & crop uploaded pictures
- limited drawing tools: I'm using iPad + pencil, and it takes time to choose the proper scale; additionally, it's only three active colors and one pen & one highlighter
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- running interactive educational sessions, e.g. workshops, lectures, courses
- daily & weekly team check ins + documentation
- strategy meetings
- PR work: developing webpages, outlining SMM strategy, preparing content
- fun activities: energizers, games, check ins
- daily & weekly team check ins + documentation
- strategy meetings
- PR work: developing webpages, outlining SMM strategy, preparing content
- fun activities: energizers, games, check ins
Recommendations to others considering the product:
- start with a free version to check out the functionality! soon, you'll want to switch to a paid account
- take some time to get to know the offered paid plans, and find exactly what you need
- join the miro community — great people & ideas!
- miro is a gamechanger; you won't get back to boring slides!
- take some time to get to know the offered paid plans, and find exactly what you need
- join the miro community — great people & ideas!
- miro is a gamechanger; you won't get back to boring slides!
Way more than just a virtual whiteboard
What do you like best about the product?
It's a super versatile software. At our company we use it for brainstorming sessions, planning meetings, debriefs, kanban boards to track tasks and progress, collaborating on video scripts, sharing early ideas, documenting user research ... pretty much everything. It's also great for onboarding new empolyees, because all information is there and linked.
The team behind Miro seems to be super dedicated - continuously shipping new features in really short cycles.
The team behind Miro seems to be super dedicated - continuously shipping new features in really short cycles.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of our boards are very big in terms of size and number of elements on them and that makes them slow and not very responsive even when using the dedicted Miro app.
Also: The designer in me wants to be able to add drop shadows and gradients to elements :)
Also: The designer in me wants to be able to add drop shadows and gradients to elements :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaborating got infinitely more easy and convenient with Miro. Sharing powerpoint or keynote files is still quite the hassle in comparision and doesn't offer as much flexibility as Miro's infinte canvas does.
What I really like is how well it works for doing interviews and even remote rapid prototyping sessions with our users and potential customers.
What I really like is how well it works for doing interviews and even remote rapid prototyping sessions with our users and potential customers.
A great tool to draw diagrams and flows with your team
What do you like best about the product?
It works really smoothly, including when there are several people collaborating in real-time. It's easy to use and start with and comes with some predefined items and templates to start working with a team just by sharing a link. The rest of the team can join by logging, or also in anonymous mode.
Another feature I find really useful is to "follow" a person, so the canvas is always following the presenter´s mouse cursor.
Finally, the last feature on the most liked group is the marketplace of apps Miro can integrate with. It's easy to find a lot of tools you're already using, if not all of them.
Another feature I find really useful is to "follow" a person, so the canvas is always following the presenter´s mouse cursor.
Finally, the last feature on the most liked group is the marketplace of apps Miro can integrate with. It's easy to find a lot of tools you're already using, if not all of them.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes we need more specific visual items to use in the diagrams without having to upload an image, but I guess they cannot provide all possible use cases.
There's a Zapier integration, but I miss an Integromat one to automate with my current work apps.
There's a Zapier integration, but I miss an Integromat one to automate with my current work apps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking for a tool to use in our video conferences to share ideas and make flow diagrams, and Miro accomplished it. With this tool, we can analyze what we want to do, propose a diagram of the solution, discuss and modify, and finally decide the solution and export it to our documentation system. So the main benefit is that we can replace more easy our office meetings with a video call.
Another problem we solved with Miro is the brainstorming meetings. When we need to think about pending work to improve our application, for example, we find it easy to open a canvas, start to add notes, and then decide which ones we want to start working with, and the other remain there for the next session.
Another problem we solved with Miro is the brainstorming meetings. When we need to think about pending work to improve our application, for example, we find it easy to open a canvas, start to add notes, and then decide which ones we want to start working with, and the other remain there for the next session.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There's a free plan, so the best idea is just to register and try it for one or two sessions. Soon you'll decide if it fits your needs.
Miro is essential for digital collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
The unrestricted environment to create in is the best part. From small brainstorming sessions to building out an in-depth and involved workshop for a large group, complete with breakout sessions and slideshows, Miro can handle it all.
The integrations are also incredibly helpful. The ability to import files from google drive and tasks from Asana during our team's brainstorming sessions have allowed us to capture ideas that have been scattered across platforms and engage with them in more creative ways.
The integrations are also incredibly helpful. The ability to import files from google drive and tasks from Asana during our team's brainstorming sessions have allowed us to capture ideas that have been scattered across platforms and engage with them in more creative ways.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a learning curve, particularly for folks that may be less tech-savvy. While Miro has many learning resources available, having to go through them before folks feel comfortable enough with the platform to engage with it can delay them from fully engaging.
I also really wish that Miro had the ability to draw shapes with the pen tool then fill them in with a paint bucket tool. There have been more than a few occasions where I'd love to be able to create simple illustrations, and end up having to do so in Illustrator, exporting it, then uploading it to Miro.
I also really wish that Miro had the ability to draw shapes with the pen tool then fill them in with a paint bucket tool. There have been more than a few occasions where I'd love to be able to create simple illustrations, and end up having to do so in Illustrator, exporting it, then uploading it to Miro.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our work in restorative justice relies on human connection and relationships, and we've used Miro to engage and connect in different ways than the video conferencing that we've all become too familiar with. For example, we've hosted virtual restorative justice circles through Miro, along with countless activities for check-ins and icebreakers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I find that the best way to move past the initial learning curve is to dive in and play with the program. Many features are very intuitive, particularly if you're comfortable using common keyboard shortcuts, but It can take some practice to feel confident.
Also, take advantage of all of the templates available in the Miroverse!
Also, take advantage of all of the templates available in the Miroverse!
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