Miro Review By a Product Designer
May 06, 2025

Miro Review By a Product Designer

Filipe Siqueira | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

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
I believe Miro usability is very clear and intuitive. What strikes me the most is the ability to work and to not have to think about the tool. I can just focus on doing what needs to be done. Although, for expert users, it would be nice to have more shortcuts.
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.
I believe it created a new base line for comparison. I love using FigJam as well, as its similar to Miro, but integrated with Figma.
Other, older tools, has quickly become obsolete after Miro, basically and I don't go to them as often anymore. For collaboration Miro is a must.
I actually love them both. But, Miro has an advantage in the company I work with. There we have both business people that are not at all accustomed wit Figma, but are well versed with Miro. With Miro, its easier to conduct workshops outside of the tech and design team.

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

Well suited:
- Workshopping and facilitation
- Planning
- Creating templates to share with colleagues
- Visual storytelling
- Gathering reference
- Setting up and presenting workflows
- Coping and pasting information from other places.

Less appropriate
- Delegating work
- Monitoring team members assignments
- Working with people outside of your organization or profile.


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