Item: Miro
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Miro to gather references for art, in my case, to create graphic design moodboards in search of narrowing in on a particular art style. It works as a way to collect videos, websites, and images in one place, as well as to easily annotate those images and collaborate with one another on creating said moodboards.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Miro's collaboration is its strongest suit -- it's very easy to see what a coworker is doing at any given time, and I've never had any issues working together on one document.
There is a lot of flexibility with being able to resize images and add relevant comments. We use it for mood boards, but we've also used it to plan production and it's moved between the two with ease.

Cons

Embedding videos is annoying and doesn't preview as well as you'd hope for a reference board.
Websites like Behance get previewed as videos, meaning you have to click through to see the entire page and clutter a mood board with words where one wants images.

Return on Investment

Improved productivity and speed of communication for collaboration between small groups of employees.

Implementation Rating

Ease of Integration

We use it as an SSO service. It's easy to log in to and slotted into our workflows nicely -- as we used it at the beginning of a project, it was easy to start using it as our primary reference gathering tool. Links and boards are very easily shared out as well as easily kept private, and its built-in organization makes it simple to find previous boards you've worked on. I do wish, however, that it accepted different kinds of links such as videos more easily, and that it required fewer clicking through elements in order to access them.

Collaboration

It has made it easier to communicate while working on a board actively together and when contributing to it separately, as well as made it simpler to turn thoughts into something akin to a presentation.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator CC, Slack

Likelihood to Recommend

Miro is great for groups of people, scaling well to team size and use case. I like it for mood boards, though it could use some improvement in this regard, I feel it's very well suited towards creating early plans in groups: It's easy to collaborate with others, drag and drop any ideas you have as you have them, and quickly reorganize your page to be easily browsed.

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