Miro feels like magic for distributed teams
October 13, 2025

Miro feels like magic for distributed teams

Fabio Barreiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

I use Miro to collaborate with multiple distributed teams. Brainstorming, workshops, co-sketching, PI Planning, and many other use cases as we design software solutions for a global datacenter company. I am part of the Service Design team, and Miro helps me create visual artifacts that people can also work on. From internal solutions across our systems stack to our customer portal, Miro is a must have when we need to co-create. It helps us solve problems like: Online collaboration, Async communication/work, Visual thinking instead of text-heavy docs.

Pros

  • Online realtime collaboration
  • Visual thinking, improving meeting alignment
  • Templates library covering many use cases
  • Diagramming
  • Rapid wireframing

Cons

  • It doesn't have pages, so either you end up with a lot of clutter on 1 board or you need to split it into multiple boards, creating confusion
  • Some features like the Story Mapping component still feel unfinished (ie. Sometimes cards title overlap other elements, the + buttons were out of place, it doesn't sum up the story points in each release)
  • AI Image generation fails a lot to generate images with text
  • Could have more sticky notes colors
  • Speed to development, by improving team alignment
  • Team productivity - Concepts can be designed in hours
  • Cost saving, by eliminating the need of travels for many situations
I love how fluid and fast Miro is, specially using the desktop app. Not a 10 as I feel there is room for improvement when browsing and searching for boards. But still, Miro is the best whiteboarding tool I've used so far, and we all know there a lot out there (Lucid Spark, Zoom Whiteboard, Mural, FigJam, etc)
In my case, as a Service Designer, I need to collaborate a lot with stakeholders and come up with Service Blueprints, Experience Maps and Design Concepts. The templates and wireframing library in Miro speed that up a lot. Without Miro, we would go straight to Figma and try to come up with a Design, but being able to design a concept in Miro in a matter of hours, and have all the stakeholders already accessing it is definitely a game changer.
Not significantly. A lot is done in Miro, during the discovery and design phases, but we still need to use other tools like Figma, Confluence, Loop, Sharepoint, Jira. So what happened is...it makes it a lot easier to collaborate when we need to brainstorm or design, but hasn't replaced other tools.
lucidspark is doing great but still delivers a disjointed experience (some features in Lucid Chats, others in Lucid Spark) - They do a better job providing pages inside the document - also more flexibility with customization

FigJam is deeply integrated to Figma, so brings some benefit, but licensing was a problem in my company do not have a Figma license - usually available only for designers - So FigJam is not an application we explored

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

Miro is excellent when you need to run online meetings and discuss complex subjects (ideally, someone with some facilitation skills should conduct it). It's a game changer if you plan to run a Design Sprint online. The voting feature allows you to brainstorm ideas and vote. For Agile cerimonies, our teams had some issues, both trying to integrate Jira, as well as trying to track user stories in a board.

As a Service Designer, the most impactful feature is the wireframing library, as I can quickly draw concepts and get stakeholders alignment and buy-in

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