Miro is an excellent collaboration tool
March 13, 2024
Miro is an excellent collaboration tool
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
We use Miro to do multiple activities, including:
- creative moodboards
- brainstorming and teardown activities
- project management
- seasonal product tracking boards
- design boards
- calendar and process mapping
The number of users on Miro boards and Projects varies depending on the scope of the activity, and can go anywhere from a small group of 2-5 users, to broad groups for larger activities of over a 100 shared users.
- creative moodboards
- brainstorming and teardown activities
- project management
- seasonal product tracking boards
- design boards
- calendar and process mapping
The number of users on Miro boards and Projects varies depending on the scope of the activity, and can go anywhere from a small group of 2-5 users, to broad groups for larger activities of over a 100 shared users.
- Provides freedom to users to explore multiple pathways to express and create
- Variety of integrations with other software and apps
- Different levels of accessibility based on privacy requirements
- Notifications when comments are added on a board
- Wide range of possible uses, from purely creative to more practical and operational, while still allowing for creativity
- Easy to learn and use software and pleasant design
- Integrations with certain mainstream applications such as keynote, for example
- opportunity to add live documents from other applications without pasting them as mere images or values, so they keep refreshing if the source file changes, similar to a Smartsheet dashboard or air table. For example, add an excel table or Smartsheet card that updates automatically if the original file or card is updated at the source.
- Have basic calc functions on tables similar to an excel table
- More user friendly project calendar and timeline tools (current ones are very manual to build and require a lot of micro-management to maintain. A calendar with swim lanes for example, is made of multiple square shapes that then need to be individually edited.
- Improved collaboration
- Improved productivity and efficiency during lockdown, when most meetings were virtual
- Simplification of share-out and feedback activities
Miro has provided huge benefits in this area. For example Miro was pretty much the main work platform for my cross-functional team during the 2020 lock down, and extended smart-working period that followed that.
We also currently use Miro to collaborate with teams located in Asia, Europe, and everywhere in the world, making collaboration much more efficient.
We also currently use Miro to collaborate with teams located in Asia, Europe, and everywhere in the world, making collaboration much more efficient.
- Smartsheet and Airtable
Miro is more user friendly than Smartsheet, and provides for a much more free-hand use and variety of expressions than all of the above.
When it comes to project management and calendar or process management, Miro is less functional and the only advantage is really that it is more aesthetically appealing than Smartsheet, while Airtable in this respect is both functional and well-designed.
When it comes to project management and calendar or process management, Miro is less functional and the only advantage is really that it is more aesthetically appealing than Smartsheet, while Airtable in this respect is both functional and well-designed.
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