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Power Live Whiteboard
Updated January 23, 2023

Power Live Whiteboard

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

We use Miro extensively for remote and hybrid university teaching in user experience design, particularly individual and small group design workshops. Students find it an intuitive tool to use both individually and in groups - we can even use it for ice breaker sessions during Induction. Students can arrange a range of outputs and media types on a single board, so the product of several weeks of workshops can build up into a body of work in a single place that students can present back to tutors. Tutors appreciate the direct access to students' work and the opportunity to dig down for more detail. We can also manage boards for use in very large classes. My favorite feature is the side panels where basic instructions for workshops can be presented to students - everything is in one place.
  • real-time group editing
  • fast and intuitive navigation
  • range of media types and objects that can be added to boards
  • range of templates available - SWOT analysis, empathy map etcc
  • large boards can run slowly and laptops get hot!
  • templates can be tricky to customise
  • an even wider range of objects that we can embed on boards - 2D designs, 3D designs
  • increased student convenience - there is no need to travel sometimes great distances for a single workshop
  • increased collaboration when students are at field sites eg at companies collecting data
  • the opportunity to practice real world collaboration skills and use real world tools as part of a university course
Miro has performed very reliably over the last three years. Staff and students have enjoyed 24/7 access, 365 days per year to this tool. Since there is no desktop app, there has been no burden on our technical support staff. So far, the University has been content to rely on a third party to supply essential software, though this may change should the number of students using Miro increase
To date, there has not been much integration with other university systems such as Outlook, Teams, Canvas (learning management system). and timetabling system. The faster students can move from their calendar into the virtual spaces to be used for the event the better I think. A wider range of media types that could be uploaded to boards would help eg unity, maya, adobe xd and aero, axure, Figma, extensio, atlas.ti,
Miro has impacted the way the course collaborates on new projects via students. Miro is popular with a great many students and it soon becomes part of their personal Ux practice. Students often conduct projects with local organizations and frequently introduce Miro to these organizations, when they set up collaborations mechanisms with their stakeholders

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

The Ux Design course at the University also uses Figma, which includes a groupware whiteboard. The miro whiteboard was more flexible and powerful, so we tend to use Miro rather than Figma. Many of out workshops are not related to a UI design activity, so Figma's integration with UI design is of no advantage to us
Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued), Canvas
Miro is well suited to individual remote workshops for user-centered design group remote workshops for user-centered design ice breaker sessions during induction presenting student projects to markers and stakeholders presenting student work back to workshop helpers and moderators Miro is less well suited to assigning marks to work handing in finished versions of work for marking workshops which require unsupported media types such as 3D models