Miro feels like magic for distributed teams
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
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
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


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