Miro: Great for collaboration but performance can be improved

In the last year, Miro has been used for structuring our research. While everyone was working from home, Miro enabled us to work together on brainstorming sessions or updating each other on the current state of our work. Miro allowed for more collaborative tools than what was offered by our videoconferencing software. For example, we used the Kanban board template to show the current and next steps for research projects. However, the performance in the web app is often lagging for some users. So for tasks in which one team member is just presenting her work, we usually switched to screen sharing instead of all using the Miro app. On a tablet, on the other hand, the performance is better.

We started using Miro for our weekly update meetings during the home-office period. On this board, we collected our current tasks and next steps. Before using Miro, we used a shared online presentation. Miro allowed for more imminent feedback since everyone could just add a post-it to the aspect the team member was currently talking about. This led to more active meetings that are more similar to the in-person meetings we used before.