Better than the biggest whiteboard
Updated April 12, 2024
Better than the biggest whiteboard
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
When working with remote teams, or with flexible locations, eg. hybrid, work from home, etc, having a shared whiteboard and kanban that is always accessible to everyone on the team is invaluable.
- Kanban project management
- Planning and scheduling
- Shared board for Zoom brainstorming workshops
- Sticky notes only have two available fonts--please enable more fonts
- Interface can still be fiddly when trying to select particular items within a frame, instead of selecting the frame.
- Being able to easily cut and paste boards from one project to another would be very handy
- reduces the mental load of conveying tasks to be done to a team, and following up
- allows seeing priorities clearly, and moving them around, thus increasing productivity
Miro feels much more flexible than other whiteboard-like products or collaboration tools. Being able to plot things out on a seemingly infinite sized canvas, without being overly constrained in formats, and being able to zoom in and zoom out to specific areas is very useful in being able to conceptualise a whole project, and where specific aspects of the project fit in.
Miro feels so much more expansive than Jamboard, which only seemed to allow a small, fixed area. Miro's features and templates seemed to be on a completely different level. Trello is a rather different product: well suited to a very set format, but it's not nearly as good for flexible and completely freeform brainstorming.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Miro go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Miro again?
Yes
Using Miro
- Brainstorming
- Project Management
- Planning
- Used for presentations: ability to Zoom out to big picture, then individual slides
- for managing group projects
Evaluating Miro and Competitors
- Ease of Use
It's very intuitive to use and gives the flexibility to use it in so many different ways.
I often just like being able to lay out post-it notes and move them around with colleagues, but it's also great to be able to embed images and pdfs etc.
Most of us don't have the time to do a training for another software. Nearly every co-worker seems to be able to use Miro basically out of the box.
I often just like being able to lay out post-it notes and move them around with colleagues, but it's also great to be able to embed images and pdfs etc.
Most of us don't have the time to do a training for another software. Nearly every co-worker seems to be able to use Miro basically out of the box.
I don't know that I'd do anything differently.
Miro Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal - Lesson for me personally is that if a tool can provide value immediately without requiring time investment for training etc, then people are much more likely to adopt and use it regularly.
- minor: coworkers being invited to a different email address to the one they were logged in on. This was very minor and easily fixed.
500 - Management. Research and writing teams. Educators.
I am not aware of in-house staff for the support of Miro, nor would I think it necessary. The appeal is that Miro is very intuitive.
Miro Training
- No Training
For busy people, I would not recommend any form of compulsory training for Miro. The appeal of Miro is that, for my teams, it immediate saved us time, and is very intuitive to use.
Configuring Miro
No recommendations other than to explore the templates and community templates. Also google to see if someone is already sharing something they've set up for your use case.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
I did not customise Miro, other than to use templates that other people have shared online and in the community.
Miro Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
None | None |
We have not purchased premium support. Budgets at the moment are limited.
I have never contacted support, nor needed to.
Using Miro
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Making a freeform Kanban
- not particularly difficult, but sometimes fiddly to move many post it notes without disturbing the structure of headings or outlines below.
Miro Reliability
Integrating Miro
- never tried any integration
I have not used any of those
If the functionality to have GPT summarise changes in a report does not already exist, using GPT-4-vision, then that would be very helpful
Relationship with Miro
Academic usage did not need to be negotiated, there is already an academic usage policy.
No, all of the interactions were very good.
Upgrading Miro
- I am not aware of any upgrade
- I am not aware of plans for the next upgrades, but look forward to AI summaries if they are not yet available
Yes - My team changed because there is a limit on the number of boards we can have on the free plan.
The change went very well: we already knew we liked using Miro, and the change gave us the ability to create more boards.
The change went very well: we already knew we liked using Miro, and the change gave us the ability to create more boards.