Miro

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What is Miro?

Miro is a web-based Collaborative Whiteboard platform that provides teams with an infinite digital canvas for visual planning, diagramming, and workflow mapping. The platform integrates a spatial user interface with automated drawing tools and natural-language processing (NLP) to structure freeform ideas into defined project workflows and database schemas.

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Screenshot of Miro's design sprint templates, used to solve big challenges, create new products or improve existing ones.

Screenshot of the Sprint Planning features in Miro, that assists Development Teams in creating a transparent understanding of what can be built and how. Users can run sprints and turn a team into creative and active participants. Today, many organizations use Agile tools to manage software development and other non-IT projects.

Screenshot of the PI Planning Template that brings teams toward one vision of what stories to develop. Used to manage a backlog, increase productivity, and build the foundation for a successful PI Planning event. Miro’s PI Planning Template helps to get an overview of any PI Planning event, with step-by-step frames to guide the process.

Screenshot of diagrams, concept maps, and system mapping templates used to communicate complex flows and create a shared understanding. Users can check off all the essential steps of the diagramming process and gain a complete overview of operations with Miro's diagramming templates collection.

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Screenshot of Miro's design sprint templates, used to solve big challenges, create new products or improve existing ones.

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Miro.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

25.6%

2,711 installations of 10,585

“Allows many to work at the same time efficiently”
— Vice President of Data Science, Relevate Health (Mid-sized Companies)

#2 most frequent

Information

15.3%

1,623 installations of 10,585

“Sticky notes & White boarding are easy and versatile”
— Systems Engineer, MYOB (Enterprises)

#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

10.4%

1,102 installations of 10,585

“Biggest impact in features is on my day-to-day work are collaborative boards, templates, and real time editing. They make it easier to organize workshops, map QA proccess, visualize requierements, and share ideas with colleagues. Also mentioned it's really useful for collecting feeadback.”
— QA Automation Tester, RaiffeisenBank (Enterprises)

Pros

Real-time collaboration across distributed teams
Extensive template library for diverse activities
Intuitive interface and ease of use for quick adoption

Cons

Performance degradation and lag on large, content-heavy boards
Difficulties with navigation and organization on complex boards
Steep learning curve for advanced features

ChengYo Lee View profile

Freelance Industrial Designer in Manufacturing at Self Employed (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Miro as a documentation of my industrial design process, starting from gathering research matierals, putting my sketches or screenshots of CAD modelling/ visualization materials on the canvas or just scribbles on the canvas. By putting all the related matierals on Miro and categorizing them in frames, it gives a clear timeline and overview of all the process and is efficient to analyse the progress.

Client/ Team-facing-wise, I share either the complete board or a copied-board for meeting, collaborations and feedbacks.

In summary, using Miro in my case is about tracking and analysing product development progress myself and with teams.

Pros

Real time, flexible collaboration on the board
Visualizing mass materials in sctructural ways, especially multi-media materials than just texts.
Visualizing app/interface flows and logics with diagram

Cons

The ability to make high quality vector visual materials (icons, interfaces), very often we switch to Figma for such tasks.
MCP-ability is still less campable to create usable wireframes.
MCP requires much too often reconnection, making the automazation less useful when I have to be on-site and keep re-authorizing the connection.

Return on Investment

It saves the time to make PDF presentation for intemediate product review with clients that we used to do before. The strucural on Miro makes it practically sharable instantly or with very little editing.
It's a powerful communication platform for remote collaboration, especially leaving instant feedback or checking the progress from other teams at my own wish. We have less unnecessary meetings by asking colleagues to just have a look on the canvas and leave comments on certain topics.

Usability

Other Software Used

Figma, Rhino 3D, KeyShot, Google Sheets

Aditi Singh View profile

Legal Intern in Legal at Saikrishna & Associates (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

During my recent internship, I had the best experience incorporating Miro into my workflow. Being a final year law student kind of brings in a lot of responsibilities and I for one had many being in the litigation team. Miro helped me organize my workflow on its visual board so that I had the day mapped out for all my juniors in the team. Collaborations on a case and making changes to a draft was so much easier. The file could easily be edited by anyone on the team and the same would reflect on everyone's dashboard. This saved us a lot of time that went in cross checking and sharing the updated draft. Their template collection is also very unique and one can find theirs based on their workflow.

Pros

Organizing workflow for team collaboration
Enabling changes and edits by the team members so that the update reflects the same on everyone's dashboard
Organizing complicated info to smooth things for better and efficient output
Helps automate workflow

Cons

Sometimes locating information on a bigger board is quite difficult as the information starts to look less sorted. So there can be a little bit of improvement in terms of bigger boards
Complex features are hard to navigate and implement without a proper hand. A little bit of intuitivity can help fix that, especially for beginners
In my opinion, a few more formatting tools for a legal workflow would really be a great add on

Return on Investment

We were able to fast track our research, and come to conclusions that would have otherwise taken months to achieve.
It improved our team effort and coordination over digital space with a secure channel to maintain our workflow on.
Our workflow output was quite efficient acquiring less utilisation of time and energy on manual workload.

Usability

Other Software Used

Google Workspace

Jay Patel View profile

Sr. Product Manager in Product Management at AgencyAnalytics (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Miro is basically where all our thinking happens before it ends up anywhere else. We're an data platform team, so there's always a lot of moving pieces like feature planning, design reviews, mapping out workflows, figuring out priorities. Miro gives us one place to get it all out visually instead of losing ideas across slack threads and random docs. We use it heavily for brainstorming, sprint planning, and mapping out user flows. It's also been great for async work as we are online company.

Pros

The infinite canvas makes it easy to go from a messy brainstorm to an organized plan without switching tools. Sticky notes and voting let us run prioritization sessions that actually stay focused.
The templates save a ton of setup time for retros and sprint planning. I always start with a template and modify it to something of my own.
The biggest win is just having a shared space where product, design, and engineering can see the same picture and stay aligned without constant back and forth.

Cons

Sometimes the board can get sluggish when there's a lot of content. I then to try to break it down in multiple boards. This happens when there tons of stickies and frames.
I started using MCP and was able to create a table with contents through Claude Code but I wasn't able to edit the table through Miro AI. It would be nice if that works sleekly.

Return on Investment

The biggest ROI has been fewer meetings. When people can drop their thinking on a board and others can review async, you cut out a lot of unnecessary syncs.
For project delivery, the impact is hard to put an exact number on, but alignment happens faster.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

FigJam

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FigJam

Subhashree Satapathy View profile

Developer in Engineering at infosys (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Miro for team discussions and for analyzing development ideas among developers and analysts. We also use it to create flowcharts and diagrams, which we actively use in our meetings. It is a great platform for collaboration that makes cross-functional work seamless; it provides a good space to connect with coworkers.

Pros

Brainstorming and Collaboration.
Requirement Analysis.
Conducting Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
Connecting ideas and discussing remotely.

Cons

Diagrams creation can be improved.
Dashboards should be a little better more user-friendly.
Search components needs refinement.

Return on Investment

Fast decision making within team.
Reduced time in requirement analysis.
Efficient brainstorming sessions.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft 365, Windows Server and Google Analytics

Other Software Used

GitHub Copilot, Atlassian Bitbucket, Devin, Atlassian Product Collection, with Jira Product Discovery

Pratikh Sinha View profile

Financial Advisor in Finance and Accounting at EY (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Been using Miro for a while now. I love using this platform because it has completely transformed the way I approach teamwork, making our virtual brainstorming sessions genuinely exciting and highly productive. The moment I open the infinite canvas, I feel a sense of creative freedom that a traditional, rigid document editor simply cannot provide.

Pros

Remote collaboration freedom.
Abstract ideas alignment.
Unified information silos.

Cons

Slow loading times.
Heavily loaded canvases.

Return on Investment

Finance department data suggests ROI has exceeded our expectations.

Usability

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