Miro has changed how we do creative work.
February 13, 2025

Miro has changed how we do creative work.

Joseph O'Connell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Our firm designs and fabricates large-scale sculptures and museum exhibits for clients around the world. We generate concepts, pitch them to clients, move designs through detailed phases, and fabricate and install them. We use Miro for the earlier stages of a project, which is highly collaborative. We create mood boards, add labels, sketch right on the Miro board, drop in renderings, and pull together presentations.

Pros

  • Collaborative sketching and placement of reference images.
  • Producing clean PDF presentations from a messy ideation process.
  • It allows us to present to a client, and if there are questions, we can sketch right in the presentation.
  • When we are rushing to pull together a presentation, multiple people are working simultaneously on different parts of it.

Cons

  • When we sketch images, Miro defaults to grouping the sketches with that image, w, which is frustrating.
  • The PDF export option could use better control over resolution and compression.
  • In the tablet version, Miro defaults so that the stylus always sketches. But this makes it hard to pick up objects and move them around.
  • Reduced project completion time.
  • Greater collaboration between all team members, especially remote.
  • Ability to involve clients in the ideation process.
The learning curve has been very easy, allowing us to involve team members who are only partially involved with ideation but have valuable things to offer. In the past, the steeper learning curve of some Adobe products and other collaborative environments has restricted the number of people we can involve.
It is fairly easy to incorporate Google Docs and videos. It could be better, but we don't integrate with many external products. It would be nicer if the text blocks in Miro could accommodate more characters. Often, we have to make a separate Google doc to have a two-page text block. That is a little clunky.
This has been the most significant benefit of using Miro. We have used physical whiteboards and developed a company culture where anyone can jump up and modify the group drawings. Still, with our team spread across multiple states, and even a few other countries, Miro has let us carry that culture forward and make it even more extensive. With Miro, two or more people can sketch simultaneously, whereas with the physical whiteboard, they can get in each other's way.

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

The most valuable thing about Miro is it lets us pursue the unavoidably messy process of concept ideation and create sprawling whiteboards with sketches, reference images, text blocks, external links, etc. We do this collaboratively with our teams spread across five states. We sometimes even invite clients to be guests on these boards. What is uniquely valuable about Miro is that we can then create professional-looking presentations from these messy boards simply by placing frames around portions of the board. In the past, we would have had to export our messy work to Powerpoint or Indesign - wasting hours of time. Now, we can make an orderly presentation out of a disorderly process on the fly.

Using Miro

Even clients with no prior experience can be invited to collaborate quite easily.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • collaborative brainstorming
  • creating PDF presentations
  • sketching on an image and then copying just the image
  • exporting PDFs at varying resolution and compression levels

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