Current baseline and most universal drawing, idea drafting tool in the IT
July 15, 2024
Current baseline and most universal drawing, idea drafting tool in the IT

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
We use Miro for any drafting - during workshops, small team member sessions, for creating certain concept diagrams to include in internal documents or presentations. It can be a draft of a systems or service diagram, a business process, all sorts of frameworks, and so on and so forth. Sometimes, we use it collaboratively at brainstorming sessions when a moderator prepares a canvas and everyone fills in their thougths.
Pros
- Templates library. I like the selection of templates to start my work with.
- Projects organization with visual tiles, that you can segregate by teams
- The UX when you draw is quite good. No significant problems.
Cons
- Comments. A small icon of added comment is not always visible on bigger diagrams.
- Shapes selection. Sometimes the offered selection of shapes is insufficient to create a diagram professionally in certain notation, such as BPMN or UML.
- Sharing options: They work but feel a bit over-complicated at times.
- People don't waste extra time navigating through diverse tools and services - we all use Miro for the purpose. So everyone expects this and knows how to work with it.
- Cross-domain teams can get knowledge from each other by having access to team's projects on Miro.
- Team facilitation sessions and workshops happen in a more visual way, as we work collaboratively in Miro.
It helps me, and I think it helps our company overall because people are familiar with Miro's capabilities and use them often, at least the basic stuff. We have collaborative sessions all the time, perhaps without video conferencing (because we use other tools for video calls). But it's very productive to have a session in Miro board with a number of colleagues on the call, who can all in parallel write ideas in the same Miro board.
Figma is more complex UX-wise for non-designer people. It's easier to use Miro for general audience in different company roles.
draw.io can be better for producing specific diagrams in certain notations, but it doesn't offer an extensive library of templates compared to Miro, so overall Miro is more universal.
draw.io can be better for producing specific diagrams in certain notations, but it doesn't offer an extensive library of templates compared to Miro, so overall Miro is more universal.
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?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Miro go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Miro again?
Yes

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