Item: Miro
Rating: 8
Author: Sanjay Anand

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Developing and refining product vision and design.
Managing brainstorming and collaborative meetings.
We are an IT group responsible for creating software to support patients and clinical teams in the management of conditions.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Collaborative brainstorming
Communicating status & progress for in-process projects
Design collaboration
Refining concepts and hypotheses
Planning and aligning dispersed teams on a common plan

Cons

Sketching - should be easier to sketch or write on top of objects
Locking objects onto a frame - there should be an explicit gesture that allows that instead of hoping that it has happened, looking for subtle visual cues
Highlighting an object (especially a post-it) without the full format bar which blocks other nearby objects. Makes it hard to present.
Better slide templates and easier export to and import from PPT

Return on Investment

Improved productivity for product discovery and design teams

Collaboration

This is where Miro really shines. We have offshore teams and completely remote resources in general. The whiteboard has been critical to get from unstructured concepts to defined projects.

This has been especially valuable in the collaboration between design, product and engineering.

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

Microsoft Teams, Lucidchart, Google Meet

Likelihood to Recommend

Excellent for design and discovery workshops. Not well suited to present findings and progress to stakeholders and leaders.

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Miro is one of the best tools for remote collaboration.