I live and breathe through Miro at work
September 16, 2024
I live and breathe through Miro at work
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
I'm a product designer. I use it to build ideas and concepts for products or features I'm designing. I will create boards to define the problem and bring together different user stories and ideas, as well as sketches and their pros and cons. It's great for collaboration and organising thoughts.
Other members of our team will use it to draw flows to visualise logic. It's a tool we use from low-level ideas to higher-level thinking. Any thinking that is involved, we will dump into a miroboard so that it keeps a digital reference and can be easily shared later.
Other members of our team will use it to draw flows to visualise logic. It's a tool we use from low-level ideas to higher-level thinking. Any thinking that is involved, we will dump into a miroboard so that it keeps a digital reference and can be easily shared later.
Pros
- Collaboration. Everyone can contribute their ideas at the same time. We play a game called 1-min Picasso where we draw a prompt as a team to compete who has the better doodle. Afterwards we use the voting tool to vote for the best design.
- Templates. There are great templates and ideas that we can use from the community to help and inspire us when organising workshops or higher-level thinking.
- Having a variety of tools: you have sticky notes for everyone to brainstorm, you also have wireframing tools that can help with quick sketching, then you also have flowcharting tools to help with that. Everyone on the product team can benefit from using a tool like this.
Cons
- Lagging. I like creating big boards and it's common for my teammates that their laptops take forever to load the board, especially when sharing their screen. It will nice to have better loading, or some sort of understanding of when my board is getting too big?
- Zoom. It's quite confusing at what size the board is too zoomed in or not. I just go in to create things, but then realised I'm not zoomed out enough. And then I have massive text and have to reduce everything. It's not a huge problem but sometimes I'm not sure at what zoom level I should have my board at.
- Kanban. It would be cool to be able to filter your kanban tickets by tag/labels.
- Improved productivity: easier collaboration between teammates so less preparation time is needed for big presentations or meetings. We can just work async.
It has helped massively for us to collaborate on new projects. We're a fully remote team and we jump onto miroboards whenever a meeting becomes too intense and we need to write down thoughts.
It has also brought in a sense of humour because everyone likes to add GIFs to our ideas.
It has also brought in a sense of humour because everyone likes to add GIFs to our ideas.
Provides much more functionality. Miro is more specific and has tools for designers to use.
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?
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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