An Endless, Bottomless Workspace for our Remote Team to Collaborate
October 24, 2024
An Endless, Bottomless Workspace for our Remote Team to Collaborate
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
Often, we would collaborate with this tool where my boss/leadership team would first create a outline of ideas they want to convey in a given project -- we'll say an internal report. Then my boss would go through the Miro notes and record a Loom video where he elaborates on those ideas (sometimes adding additional notes). I would then take the auto-generated transcript of this recording, in addition to the outline in Miro, and -- with the help of generative AI -- I would create a draft of the report.
Pros
- You can just endlessly add detail to a blank canvas. Zooming in and out in a way that really helps do whatever you need to do. There is a sense of freedom in this -- sort of like a digital space that is as close to traditional handwriting on a posterboard as possible. Sometimes, I feel that digital tech still presents boundaries that a pen and paper do not. However, with Miro I feel this is not the case.
- Collaboration was easy. I was able to create my own account fairly easily and be a part of the Team without messing up anyone elses work.
- User friendly: I never received an instructions for to do Miro, but it was just kind of obvious.
Cons
- Sometimes I feel like using table format with columns and rows is a bit tedious. Columns seem to get misaligned in a way that doesn't seem as common with tables in, say, a Word doc or GoogleDocs.
- Even though you can endlessly move items and make more space, I think if there was an easy "give-me-more-space button," that would be helpful. Basically, the user just pushes the button and everything on the page becomes slightly more spaced out. Keep pushing it, and the spacing between items increases (sort of like word processing apps where you press a button and your text gradually gets bigger or smaller with each press).
- Similarly, maybe there could also be some kind of "clean up my page" button, that instantly makes everything look a little cleaner and fixes things that are a bit out of sort as the user is adding new information here and there. Like, for example, if some text is overlapping other text, this button would just fix that holistically.
- We introduced this as an easy tool for our clients to use when collaborating with teams. So, it's one of many value-adding tools that helps our folks reimagine their work for optimizing time.
- As a remote team with people all around the continental US, it really helped us feel -- at least from my perspective -- more like we were collaborating in a more traditional manner.
- The fact that the tool is so user friendly and didn't really require instruction, may have saved time/resources as well.
Absolutely. In our minds, that literally is what Miro is for and what it does. It's like here's a giant, endless, bottomless white board that you can work with and you'll never run out of space. It's like all you can eat chicken wings but with collaborative writing space -- maybe you can use that in your messaging!
The closest thing I have experienced that is somewhat similar is collaborating on a Google Doc or even Google Sheets. Very different tools, clearly, by the experiences has similarities when it comes to the collaborative ability to endlessly add idea, data, etc. live with the people on the team.
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
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