Excellent digital whiteboarding tool for remote teams
January 06, 2025
Excellent digital whiteboarding tool for remote teams

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
We (the product team) generally use it during the discovery phase of internal initiatives. We may do prioritization boards, user story maps, flowcharts, system diagrams, or just use it to log people's questions and concerns that we can then go through in a systematic way as a product (or workgroup) team. I don't believe we use it quite as strongly once we're past discovery, unless we reach some speedbump/obstacle that requires we revisit our discovery work and rethink a way to do something.
Pros
- Brainstorming for remote teams / digital whiteboarding
- Sprint retros, where everyone can contribute post-its and we group them and discuss as a team
- User story maps -- we use these quite a bit and find them very helpful
- I also personally use Miro for some early OOUX work (system modeling, nav flows), and it works quite well for that.
Cons
- Most of my irritations are around the individual micro-interactions or mechanics of working in the board. I'll often move something I don't intend to, or not be able to quickly trigger the action I'm expecting.
- More integrations with tools like Linear, so you can pull ticket details into a board, would be great.
- Streamlined discovery activities
- Providing a durable "proof" of discussion points/decisions (unlike some physical whiteboarding notes, which may be lost if not documented)
Miro is one of our key collaboration tools as an entirely remote, worldwide company. If we weren't using Miro, I expect we'd be using a competitor like Mural or Whimsical.
I'm not as familiar with Whimsical (have only used it situationally), so can't really speak to this. I'm much more familiar with Miro, so would advocate staying with that unless there was something that forced us to switch (e.g. inaffordability, reduction in features, increased lockdown on unpaid collaboration with incidental teammates)
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

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