Item: Miro
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I actively use Miro in my university course, as we are required to use it for group activities. It helps us more easily collaborate with many people during class activities. I also use Miro outside of education for mood boards, flowcharts, kanban, and personal projects.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Live-moving cursors are very helpful when a teammate is explaining or directing you to something on the board.
Recording a session on a board with an included camera and microphone is very useful and easy to do.
The chat feature is very nice, so you don't have to use Teams or another messaging app while using Miro. It's all self-contained.

Cons

Not being able to edit something (a sticky note, for example) at the same time as a teammate is very frustrating. Even though this may be a technical limitation, it does detract from the collaborative aspect.
I would like to use arrows more often for annotating, but they are very tricky to use in Miro. You need to hold a particular button on your keyboard while moving them around; otherwise, they will connect to any nearby object.
The text tool does not function as expected. I want to create a text box where increasing the font size fills the text box and wraps the text accordingly. Instead, the text box size increases, and there is no option to turn this off. This makes it very hard to line up text for mockups, storyboards, etc, quickly.

Return on Investment

Miro helps my team achieve their project planning goal faster than any other software I've used, thanks to the infinite canvas and collaborative tools.

Collaboration

Typically, we would be required to use paper or sticky notes to complete group activities on campus, but Miro makes it possible to collaborate on projects remotely. This is especially true when it isn't always viable to require every teammate to travel to a single destination to complete a simple storyboarding or scenario-building task.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Trello, Linear App

Likelihood to Recommend

Miro is very useful for small—to large-scale collaboration due to its team-focused feature set. However, there is more useful software for personal projects. I would definitely recommend Miro in a collaborative/team-based environment, where recording sessions, chat, live cursors, etc., are more useful.

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Miro for large scale collaborative tasks.