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Miro - A masterclass in ideation and collaboration
Updated September 18, 2023

Miro - A masterclass in ideation and collaboration

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

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

I use Miro primarily as an ideation and solution development board. The digital format and the infinite board area encourage free-form thinking without the usual boundaries of running out of space or the need to rewrite a sticky because you changed your mind about what you were going to write. I use Miro's collaborative features extensively for simultaneous multi-party solution development and coupled with the huge number of prepared templates reduces the amount of time it takes to setup a collaborative session.
  • Emulate the planning and ideation process typically associated with paper stickies
  • Structure and guided use of the board for collaborators
  • Real-time digital sharing and working
  • The availability of shapes (arrows) could be increased in the shapes menu
  • The fill colour in the menu option disappears when its "white" with a white background - make it more obvious
  • More graphical adjustments to frames e.g. shadow options
  • Improved the turnaround time for producing solutions from days to hours
  • Reduced ideation "emptiness" the share interface allows for cross-pollination of ideas, without the fear of 'it'll be the same as everyone's ideas'
  • Increased robustness of project management by providing a mechanism to capture RAID artefacts and the associated relationships
I haven't integrated Miro with other applications, I use it with Microsoft Teams.
The biggest impact Miro has had on the organization's ability to collaborate is that it has reduced the reliance on more traditional static formats such as presentation decks, documents, and spreadsheets (for tabulated data). Whilst it has improved the collaborative quality the culture of collaborating is still very much more classic.

Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?

No

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

Miro is online and available on multiple platforms (phone, tablet, computer etc.) it combines the presentation capabilities of PowerPoint and the visual drawing/diagraming nature of Visio. The licensing model for Miro is simpler and does not require that all the participants have their own licenses in order to use. Miro is dependent upon a strong and stable internet connection.
The application of a specific consultative framework required the user to proceed in a specific step-order. The output of the framework was the accumulation of some of the stages and exactly which parts of the output were selected was based on the selections and options chosen during the earlier stages of the framework. Miro's presentation mode and the use of the Frames features allowed the consultant to control which parts of the framework to proceed to next automatically. As the consultative session was a hybrid of both in-person as well as remote Miro's online approach was well suited to the process.