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Perspectives from an Industrial Design Student
February 09, 2022

Perspectives from an Industrial Design Student

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

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

I use Miro as a student at Carleton University. Multiple profs create their lectures on and present through Miro. I also work on individual and group university assignments on Miro. The platform addresses the need for a digital platform to remotely collaborate during the pandemic. Since it is web-based, it's extremely accessible for students to use on any smart device and not have to download an app.
  • real-time collaboration between multiple users
  • good UX - the website is relatively intuitive and easy to navigate for beginners
  • wide-range of useful features (embedding videos, locking boards, showing changes, etc...)
  • Boards become slow to load when there is too much content or too many people on them. I've especially noticed this when I use the Safari browser as opposed to Chrome.
  • Boards can easily become overwhelming and cluttered because the workspace seems unlimited.
  • It's difficult to tell what scale to work in. I think this may be a result of the program being vector-based? I find I spend a lot of time zooming in and out and scrolling all over the screen searching for things on my board.
  • Negative - lag times, weak internet accesss
  • Negative - lack of real-life, human interaction
  • Positive - capability to work remotely
  • Positive - digital archive
It's a useful tool to students during the pandemic. I would prefer presentations in PowerPoint, PDFs, or google slides than Miro. I find Miro is a bit clunky when watching people scroll through "slides." I'm not sure how much I would continue to use Miro when I stop working remotely. I also get a free account through my school and would not be willing to pay for the service after I graduate.
Miro is very intuitive and closely replicates "real life" brainstorming and collaboration. I found there was barely a learning curve for me or my colleagues and if we were confused about any functions, it was easy to find the solution. The one issue I had was the desire to upload a video directly from my device; however, I had to upload the video to Youtube and then embed the file for it to be playable on my Miro board.
Miro has done a great job at uniting me with my peers and profs through the pandemic when we were working remotely. It is also helpful in working across timezones because not everyone has to work simultaneously. Without Miro, we would've been a lot more lost and had to resort to a less efficient platform for our needs such as Figma or Google Docs.

Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Miro's feature set?

Yes

Did Miro live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Miro go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

I think Miro has a very specific positioning in the digital collaboration space. I associate Miro with brainstorming and divergent thinking. I associate Figma and Adobe XD with UX work and Wireframing, and I associate Google Drive with collaboratively writing documents and presentations. Miro is a platform where I create "messy" work and I use it in the initial stages of problem-solving. I would use Adobe programs as ways to polish my work and make it "presentation-worthy"
Google Drive, Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark), Figma
I think it's well suited for collaborating remotely, but it is not as satisfying as working on physical paper, sticky notes, and speaking in person. I also assume it's less wasteful than physical collaboration boards because there is no paper waste. It's nice to have a digital archive of work as opposed to having to store paper records. It's not appropriate if you don't have access to the internet, a charger for your device, or a device that isn't powerful enough to respond to Miro.