Miro for conducting co-design sessions as a designer/researcher
October 29, 2021

Miro for conducting co-design sessions as a designer/researcher

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

I am a UX researcher/designer of my HCI research group. As a designer and researcher of our group, I personally used Miro for conducting online interviews and co-design sessions because it was an easy tool for non-design professionals to learn the functions and participate in the design sessions that I have been conducting.

Pros

  • Straightforward and easy to learn tools/functions.
  • Online collaboration.
  • Simple, clean and beautiful layout.
  • Sharing board options.

Cons

  • Drawing function with a pen tool -> I frequently asked my design session participants to use a pen tool to draw directly on the board. However, each stroke drawn with a pen tool is recognized as a separate object and slows down the processing speed.
  • Enabled the online co-design session with people all over the world during the corona time when offline face-to-face meetings were forbidden.
  • So far not a recognized negative impact with Miro.
I was quite satisfied with the implementation of Miro, compared to a few years ago when I first encountered Miro. The number of features and functions available within the Miro board is growing. The design templates options provided are also helpful when starting a new project board.
I had used multiple plugin functions to import media files and make them playable on the miro board. Most of them were quite successful (e.g., youtube videos), however, I remember that the integration with Twitter was not successful. I wanted to embed the video from tweets but it only allowed me to embed the link of the tweet.
My organization doesn't use the Miro board as a team, but some designers use the Miro board individually and separately for their own research projects.

Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Miro's feature set?

Yes

Did Miro live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Miro go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Miro is well suited for simple brainstorming sessions. It can be used for brain drawing or other design sessions however drawing pen tools can be improved further for a better user experience. Also, Miro can be used very efficiently for diary studies.

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