Collaborative brainstorming tool for research and development teams
September 05, 2024

Collaborative brainstorming tool for research and development teams

Utkarsh Kejriwal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Miro

We use Miro at BSI to specifically collect data during brainstorming sessions and workshops. Quite recently we used Miro for a project called ContestAI where we conducted multiple workshops to collect data and prototype ideas to create a platform/app to contest bad ai practices. Miro boards help create an amazing user flow during the workshops and constantly keeps all participants engaged which is quite important. I have also personally used Miro within my team to brainstorm and design flows for certain spreadsheets and powerpoints as you can draw, visualise and write on post-its which are easily customisable. I must also appreciate that Miro has a really good UI/UX compared to its competitors LUCID and microsoft whiteboard.

Pros

  • Brainstorm
  • Create User Flows
  • Helps collect multiple points of data in one place
  • Makes the data look visually appealing
  • Engages the workshop participants particularly well
  • Stimulates creative thinking as we can customise the board as per flow of thought

Cons

  • I feel the price point can be a bit better as microsoft whiteboard is free.
  • At times we have experience people facing difficulty in joining a password protected board.
  • Improved productivity
  • Improved workshop engagement rate
  • reduced analysis time
  • improved visual representation of data
The implementation was super easy. Just made a quick account, purchased the team subscription, added people to the team and voila, it was quite easy to implement there after. The problem i faced was we have multiple owner accounts and if anyone was on leave and if their subscription paused, the other users had trouble editing and accessing data as the board is then locked.
Super easy to integrate, faced 0 issues in doing so.
The ContestAI workshops were all remote and also remote across different time zones. This helps us attract diverse perspectives from across the world. BSI has offices around 29 different countries so Miro does help in creating a seemingly positive and collaborative environment between different teams across different bsi landscapes.
Lucid has a complicated process to its basic tasks. The UI UX is a bit tricky for a new user when it comes to lucid, whereas i feel Miro is way more user friendly than lucid for a first time user. Additionally, Miro is cheaper than lucid when it comes to the value it provides and accessibility within teams.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Miro go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

I have conducted 4 workshops for an internal project called contestAI where we used the Miro boards. All 4 workshops were designed to prototype and design a contestability platform. Miro boards helped me capture data and solutions effectively as per different user personas. Additionally we didnt need many different boards but one board with multiple smaller boards so navigation and the flow wasnt broken. Adding to that, Miro has an option to add frames to your boards which can later be exported easily. These frames help segregate data well and helps export all or selective data which is very convenient.

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