My favorite cross-team collaboration tool!
July 24, 2024

My favorite cross-team collaboration tool!

Philip Gedarovich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Miro is first and foremost a collaboration tool. I use it heavily with a number of team members to collaborate and ideate in real time. It is a great way to share thoughts, brainstorm, pull in reference images, throw together mood boards, and get real time feedback from team members without having to go through lengthy back and forth review processes over email or chat.

Pros

  • Sticky notes are fantastic and so flexible to get your thoughts down quickly.
  • I love the ability to upload a bunch of images and then easily select them all and arrange them in various automatic grids.
  • All of the stickers and symbols and emoji graphics really spice things up visually.
  • Tons of templates and layouts to get started quickly.
  • The ability to group and frame series of objects and then quickly export the entire group as an image is super helpful.
  • Easily scalable and modifiable text to create impactful titles quickly.

Cons

  • It would be great to be able to upload or have access to your system fonts, as well as the ability to use multiple fonts within a single block of text.
  • I have yet to explore the AI features as it seems there is an additional pay wall or something that my organization needs to do to unlock them. Giving access to AI features regardless of the organization or billing structure would be preferred.
  • Greater ability to reshape sticky notes. I'd like to be able to stretch them horizontally or vertically as much as I want, similar to other shapes (rectangles, circles, etc).
  • Access to the point handles of all vector shapes, including basic shapes such as rectangles and circles.
  • Simpler export to PDF options and export to Adobe Illustrator if possible. Currently it is kind of tricky to select a bunch of frames and export them as a pdf.
  • Ability to drag a selection box around multiple frames at once instead of having to shift click the name of each frame you want to select.
  • Huge speed improvement to the content review process
  • Cut down on lengthy back and forth email chains
  • Meetings are more focused and I feel that my team and I accomplish much more in a given time frame than before we were using Miro. No concrete numbers here, just overall faster, more engaging, and feeling like we actually got work done at the end of the meeting instead of feeling like we need to schedule ANOTHER meeting to actually get the work done.
Uploading images and sharing links and videos is super simple and very intuitive. Exporting content as PDFs or for usage in other Adobe applications is a bit tricky. Unlike PPT, you can not simply select a bunch of text and vector objects in Miro and paste them into Illustrator while retaining editing capabilities. This would be a huge improvement if such a feature could be implemented (instead of pasting as a flattened image or not pasting at all into Illustrator).
Miro has been a huge help! It is so intuitive and speedy and other team members regardless of location have been able to jump onboard quickly. And even if a team member is not able to join a meeting due to a conflict or time zone issue, they can easily check the board at their leisure and see the updates and track progress of other team members. I love being able to leave stickies and little notes for other team members as well, so they will get a little surprise the next time they visit the board.
When it comes to collaboration tools, Miro is by far the best. As mentioned previously, I would like better integration and copy/paste capabilities with Illustrator, but other than that, the fact that you don't need a degree in graphic design to properly use Miro makes it a much more flexible tool than the other platforms I've listed. I've rarely heard other team members struggle to understand how to work with it. The closest competitor that I've used would be Mural, which is also a great tool, but I always found Miro to be snappier and perform better. Murals could easily get too heavy and bogged down quickly which is rarely the case with Miro unless the board gets overdeveloped over the course of many weeks or months.

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

Miro is fantastic for most collaborative sessions and meetings with pretty much any team. It is a bit intimidating for non-design focused teams however. I also enjoy using it for more casual gatherings as well. I've played games and done live drawing on it with team members to great success. It is also a nice way to quickly get feedback on your ideas from teammates and the preset templates are set up nicely in that you can easily create flows from one area of content to the next and easily guide the viewers eye around the board. Boards can get a bit heavy and hectic over time though, so usually after a few weeks I have noticed that it can be hard to manage all of the content on a board and extraneous content can be distracting.

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