Paradigm Shift in Collaborative Design
November 16, 2024

Paradigm Shift in Collaborative Design

Martin Gold | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

As an educational tool for University level students of architecture and for projects with clients.

Pros

  • Organizes information visually
  • Gives everyone a 'front row seat' for critical reviews of projects
  • Highly facilitates design conceptualization with drawing, copy/past, multiple simultaneous users
  • Maintains a record projects that can be easily accessed later
  • Organizes large sets of visual information in a manner easy to navigate

Cons

  • Sometimes when I try to draw, I only get a dot, no line. It can happen three or four times before lines are able to be drawn.
  • I would like to copy frames without taking the content so I can start a fresh board with the frames but leave content. Currently have to copy and then go in an erase all the content.
  • More scale in thickness of drawing tools would help - add thicker lines.
  • Reduced time by limiting redundancy
  • Improved communication and collaboration
  • Improved ability to go back and review and organize work
  • So much faster to see everything rather than have just file names to wonder what is inside
I have implemented this in my teaching, research, and practice.
Primarily this is for education - students can see others work and add theirs any time. In my office, clients can visit and see updates at their convenience. Then when we come together, multiple people can sketch add notes, drop content of relevance, etc. This is an outstanding tool.
Miro is the best collaborative, content organizing platform I have ever used.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Since COVID19, for me, this has been a paradigm shift in how I teach students of architecture. Rather than with something pinned on a wall, and a person in the back of the room not being able to see what I'm talking about, everyone can be 'in the front row' so to speak. And, they have the freedom to look around at other work on the board to make comparisons. Even when we are all in the same room, we use Miro to go over design projects as a class. Not to mention the value of doing this over distance - simultaneous Zoom and Miro - has been very effective for me. I often go on about the value of this tool with colleagues and they may or may not get it. I would not look forward to teaching architectural design without it or something very similar. Lastly, before COVID19, I honestly probably would not have adopted it, but now, I see it as an indispensable tool.

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