Item: Miro
Rating: 9
Author: Drew Willer

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mostly for team meetings and collaboration. We develop patio furniture and being able to put up a sketch or a model that everyone on the team can see and use the drawing and sticky note tools to ideate has been very helpful to us. We also use Miro to organize our timelines and sampling schedules for each item and for each customer we supply.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Image organization
Sticky notes
Drawing tools
live collaboration

Cons

The calendar and timeline features
Ability to put items in a folder to reduce board size

Return on Investment

more streamlined collaboration
ability to have multiple users has reduced time in meetings as team members can access the board on their own time

Ease of Integration

I think overall very smooth and decently easy to use. I think the menus could maybe be laid out a bit more strategically, I found it sometimes difficult to find what I was looking for, but once I found it the actual functionality worked great.

Collaboration

I suggested to my boss that my team use Miro and it has been one of the best suggestions I've ever made. My team has been able to ideate and collaborate so much more smoothly since we are all remote workers. Being able to discuss multiple ideas and brainstorm about them on a call has been extremely helpful to our design process.

Alternatives Considered

Canva

I was less than impressed with Canvas collaborative whiteboard feature. It was very clunky, hard to use and difficult to find basic tools like pens and shapes. Miro has things exactly where I need them, board movement and navigation is smooth and easy, and tools are easy to find and shortcutable.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Miro go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Rhino 7, Microsoft Teams, Procreate, Blender

Likelihood to Recommend

Miro is great for anyone who needs to use a lot of images or documents in their work. My company doesn't really use much of the goal tracking or features like that, we have found the most use in the ability to draw over an image and place sticky notes around it in order to ideate on a concept. The voting system has also been great for us to put up multiple design ideas and let everyone vote on their own time.

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