Miro Review By a Product Designer
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
I love Miro and I use it on a daily basis. Miro has become an essencial part of my day to day work (and hobby). For work I use it to better visualize complex information and organize my design process. Shockingly, design thinking works better when you do things visually instead of with just words. For hobbies I use it to create moodboards for my paintings. The infinite canvas is an infinite better alternative to insert reference and than consume it than what I did back in the day—creating boards using photoshop/procreate and later consuming them as a png ou pdf. So yes, I give Miro a 10. It makes me faster, more organized and helps me to focus on being engaged with what I do instead of worried about the tools I need to use for it.
Pros
- Organize complex information.
- Share and collaborate with coworkers
- Visual thinking
- Workshopping and facilitation
Cons
- Tables are very messy and hard to configure.
- The new Activity gives me a headache when a coworker asks to edit my board—I never remember that Activity is where I need to go.
- I can't hide the interface. Sometimes, when Im presenting, I need a cleaner interface so the audience can focus on what Im showing them.
- Faster design process, reducing time to delivery (and consequently costs)
- Clearer and smarter synthesis and insight from research, increasing value derived from it.
- Better communication within the team, reducing costs from rework
Sticky-notes are the basics, the go to tool on Miro. It has a very solid foundation, so I can do anything with it.I also love using shapes and lines so I can visually express myself while organizing my boards.I use them both for creating information architecture and user flows. It all depends of how much time I have. If I have more time, I use more complex tools, if I have less time I just "stick" with Sticky-notes.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Miro go as expected?
No
Would you buy Miro again?
Yes


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