Miro: amazing for flowcharts, tedious for big docs.
November 25, 2022
Miro: amazing for flowcharts, tedious for big docs.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
Miro is used to displaying plans and information in a visual way. Replacing office whiteboards. We use it to ideate and create roadmaps. We sometimes use it to flow chart processes. It is mostly used to note and track information that we want people to collaborate on in real-time.
Pros
- Real-time collaboration of notes and written information (in a freeform way, not in a document style like Google apps).
- Making flowcharts of any kind.
- Visual organization of information of all kinds (pictures, text, links, etc).
Cons
- Miro makes tracking and regularly updating medium to large amounts of information difficult. The whiteboard-style editing offers little to no automation, and it's often tedious to make large changes.
- Miro's video playback is very slow. It's usually faster to link to a video instead of embedding it.
- Larger Miro boards with lots of pictures tend to run very slow. I have to split boards up at a certain point to keep them usable.
- Reduced friction when trying to ideate remotely.
- Increased duplication of documentation; some things live on Miro for some people and in excel for others.
- Increased maintenance time for Miro documents since adjustments need to be made manually.
Miro has allowed us to collaborate with teams across the world in real-time. It solves the problem of not having a whiteboard to sketch and ideate with. This has helped us increase the effectiveness of our brainstorming and organizing the thoughts of creative project teams. It's especially nice to see someone make changes in real-time and follow along.
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
Canva, while they do offer flowcharting, is mostly for graphic design for people who are not graphic designers. Miro makes it much easier to make internal documentation and references and has far more robust social features for real-time collaboration. If I were making public-facing posters, I'd use Canva, but if I'm making a moldboard with my team, I would use Miro.
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