Nice little gadget but not a must for every occasion.
August 10, 2022

Nice little gadget but not a must for every occasion.

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

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

We use Miro mainly for different virtual workshops; it mostly suits those where we need the participant to contribute quick and short notes, e.g., during discussions on specific market/product features, benchmarking competitors, key product features or purchasing conditions, etc. Miro provides an easy structural way of tuning those participants' live notes in with the prepared content, saving time for summarizing the discussions again after the meetings.

Pros

  • Adding note /virtual post-its.
  • Creating structures on canvas.
  • Integrating other materials e.g. slides deck.

Cons

  • The ease when integrating slides.
  • Ways of working with mouse can be more intuitive.
  • Navigation when viewing/organizing different boards can be more intuitive.
  • Raise efficiency in conducting virtual workshops.
  • (Slightly) helps drive digital tool orientation within organization.
  • No impact so far on external business values but only on internal working efficiency.
As mentioned, both in terms of operating the tool (creator) and navigating/viewing the content there (audience/reader), it sees room for being more human-intuitive so that it doesn't create background stress for a potential new user to start using it ("background" stress because Miro is surely not a complex tool, but still, if it's not yet the easiest / simplest, sometimes it's hard to make people aware of the benefits of adopting to this new small gadget, or say aware and actually willing to take those benefits). Simplicity is the most critical, at least for my type of working environment, where we don't really see any external/explicit values from using such a tool but only internal efficiency raise, which is often not even deemed necessary.
As mentioned already, Miro itself is not a complex tool to use. However, the benefits it provides are also mostly smaller internal efficiency raise here and there; namely, although the "cost" of using it is not high, the "benefit" might just not be big enough to let everyone embrace it. Hence integrating Miro into the daily working environment can be relatively easy technical-wise but hard context-wise.
Not much impact, it just raises the efficiency for certain types of remote discussions, but not all sorts of remote collaboration can see large enough advantages. Often times traditional slides are presented in the background + someone taking notes already works well enough. In addition, for those higher-level meetings where you have the top leadership team as well - then using the most common (often times it means traditional) tool can actually be more effective in terms of visual expression.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Better fit: workshops where you need participants' short feedback constantly, esp when you need to organize those feedback into pre-defined scopes/structures. E.g., analyzing product features (can be participants' notes) targeting different market segments (can be the preset structures already provided on canvas). Less fit: when you need to present intensive prepared content. Although Miro does has the features to incorporate materials such as slides deck, currently, these features are not the easiest to use. In addition, when you have, e.g., many detailed slides (e.g. with critical charts/figures), the view on a Miro board might not be very eye-friendly.

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