Item: Miro
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Miro for a variety of tasks in my dissertation work, with students in my classes, and for organizational collaboration. For dissertation work, I make mind maps, outlines, and scaffolding for my advisor and committee to post comments and feedback. With students in a design and prototyping class, I have had them contribute to a single board for brainstorming, analysis, and evaluation and to organize sketches of their prototypes. For organizational collaborations, I have run collaborative workshops with experts, and we use Miro to collect ideas and feedback on a variety of issues in efforts to develop things like purpose statements, mission statements, goals, and objectives and develop a board and the decision mechanisms.

Pros and Cons

Pros

I love the templates that Miro provides
I like how easy it is for me to create and iterate on my own templates
I like how easy it is to prepare a Miro board for participants, locking down boards, transferring info from one board to another

Cons

It has been challenging for some to join the boards due to loading issues
I find limitations when I upload a PDF. I wish I could expand the pdf to see all pages and it not be an image of each page. I think expanding those pages and have the ability to search and highlight on those pages would be a game changer for my work
My advisor and I are always having trouble finding links to boards that each other creates. It is easy to find the boards that we create, but it would be great to have a way to save links to boards that others have created and shared with us

Return on Investment

Improved productivity
Improved collaboration and sharing of ideas
Increased completion time on developing an organization from the ground up. e.g., mission, objectives, bylaws, committee

Implementation Rating

Collaboration

I have already mentioned this, but Miro has been a key tool in working in remote settings. I have tried other whiteboard tools based on other's recommendations, but I always return to Miro because of the ease of use and the clean interface. Miro has helped me develop and complete multi-year-long projects.

Alternatives Considered

FigJam, Mural and Google Slides

While FigJam, Mural, and Google Slides each offer valuable features tailored to specific use cases, Miro distinguishes itself through its comprehensive and versatile feature set, extensive integrations, and user-friendly interface. I also like Miro's competitive pricing with a free tier and various paid plans that offer flexibility based on team size and feature requirements.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Zotero, Google Slides, Microsoft SharePoint

Likelihood to Recommend

As mentioned before, I think Miro is well suited for doing collaborative work, especially when done in a remote/ online scenarios. Mind maps are amazing! Having students create their own Miro board to develop journey maps, brainstorming, analysis, and evaluation of product or interaction design concepts. And finally, working with expert participants in a workshop I am facilitating. The ability to have everyone working on the same board at the same time in realtime is amazing! Scenarios that are less appropriate: As mentioned before, I wish it were possible to search within the PDFs that have been uploaded. I tend to move away from Miro for this work to something like Zotero where I can search within PDFs. This disrupts the workflow. If Miro could allow search within PDFs I would use it upwards of 33% more often.

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Miro 9/10 would recommend