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Miro - A Kanban board on steroids
Updated October 03, 2023

Miro - A Kanban board on steroids

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

  1. I use it as a large Kanban board to structure my priorities. The planning is often shuffled around, the cards on the board allow me to add some notes to get me back up to speed on the details when I have to resume working on these items.
  2. I use it as an archive for interesting articles I read. I use the Miro web clipper for webpages such as Medium. This platform uses a paywall so I capture the interesting articels to make sure I can easily fidn the information in this article when I need it.
  3. I use it as an archive for interesting UI solutions I spotted in other websites/applications.
  4. I use it to draw user flows or technical flows (in BPMN notation).
  5. I use it as a giant white board where I can organize my thoughts with post-its (with or without specific diagram templates).
  • Easy to collaborate with multiple people
  • Can paste almost anything in the board (compatible with a lot of different image formats)
  • A lot of useful out of the box components for some specific purposes (templates/cards/post-its/...)
  • When I have a card open and switch to other applications, sometimes the text I typed in the card is lost because I forgot to close the card.
  • Feature set is growing rapidly which worries me that I might become to complex.
  • Organizing multiple boxes for a user flow isn't that easy, the box and frame fight with each other.
  • Miro allows us to have actual remote workshops (not just a bunch of people looking at 1 person talking in a Team's meeting), which lowers the need for travel
  • Miro replaces 4 different other tools
  • Hard to qualify other elements
Every 3 months we have a GPA meeting where we align on the priorities for the upcoming sprints of all the individual teams. These GPA's involve more than 100 people from multiple locations around the world (Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, India, USA, ...). Without Miro I would imagine this would have remained a passive session where everybody looks at the PO's filling in an Excel sheet.

Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?

Yes

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

  • Jira and Confluence are very slow to work with and feel very rigid.
  • FigJam initially had a much smaller feature set than Miro, since than I haven't looked into FigJam anymore.
Miro is great when you need a very flexible Kanban board or want to set up a timeline. Miro provides a huge number of useful templates that are related to UX work (affinity diagram, mind mapping, customer journery,...) Mrio is perfect when you are a fan of post-its and want to make use of all the advantages of having them in a digital location (copy/paste, undo, ...) If you would only need to make BPMN diagrams, there are better tools available for this specific purpose.