The perfect collaboration tool for remote product teams

As a Team Leader and UX designer, within our function we use Miro as a collaborative working tool to great effect. So much so that without Miro I struggle to understand how we would get work done as a primarily remote based product team.

Discovery research and complex problem solving collaboratively is where Miro shines for us and enables our teams to leverage cognitive diversity.

I myself design and facilitate tailored workshops for not only our UX team but also other disciplines such as Business Analysts, Development, Content Design, Product Management, Product Marketing Management and Architecture.

Some key examples include: Design Sprint, Service Blueprinting, Project Management and Prioritisation techniques and frameworks. More recently I advocate our team of designers and non-designers to utilise Miro's wireframing tools and visualise their ideas to for early feedback before progressing to high-fidelity design.

The most simplistic seem to be the most powerful such as: timer, voting, stickies, 'bring everyone to me', wireframing, share.

I feel like comments should be included in my list above but yet I find myself blind to Miro comments and notifications due to all the others I receives such as Figma, Teams, Slack, Jira, GitHub.

Miro hasn't necessarily affected how we use other tools or platforms in our tech stack. I would say it has influenced our process, behaviours and team interactions at various stages of a given project.

For us, Discovery almost always starts with a Miro board, getting knowledge, research and thoughts out of heads and into a central space for further collaboration to build upon ideas and hypotheses.