Enabling collaboration from ideas to execution. Review of Miro
March 07, 2025

Enabling collaboration from ideas to execution. Review of Miro

Andrew McKinley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

In my academic and professional work I use Miro for running graphic design classes including content delivery, student workshops, timed sprints, and collaborative processes.

Pros

  • Wall work including brainstorming, graphic audits and inventory, finding themes
  • Timed sprints for sharing individual creative work, building on those ideas, and finally critiquing them
  • Project management process including prioritizing resouces, aligning on goals, delegating work, and building accountability
  • Improv style activities for developing mindsets

Cons

  • The first few minutes can be critical, some people struggle with selecting, dragging, and typing then decide that it is not for them. Hard to peddle back on that. Would love to see some more developed initial tutorial style exercises.
  • Informal conversation is also lacking intutive features such as temporary messaging attached to one’s cursor. When I open a board and there is someone there (often a student or a client) the opportunity to immediately say hello and touch base is a little clunky.
  • I used to have a full feature version when I was teaching full-time. Obviously I cannot expect to have all the features available with a free version, but I am a bit of an evangelist and have turned many, many people into professional users, some sort of incentive for that work would help me along.
  • Miro allowed me to deliver learning experiences online during Covid. Invaluable.
  • For students it also allows them to have a huge creative space where they can put up all the process they have gone through: visual research, thumbnails, iterations, mockups, etc.
The privacy, sharing, settng up guest accounts has not always been seamless.
If by integration, you mean:
- Multipage PDFs: Scrolling and extracting, amazing. I use this all the time.
- Google docs. Really good except the pages do not appear to sync with changes made on the doc. Also, it is hard to add docs from a different google account.
- Webpage upload: Also good but would love a little more control over the preview displayed.
- Need to spend more time finding out what else I can do.
Strongest feature. Would be very difficult doing the work I do both academically and professionally without it! Bringing in experts in different fields to review work (such as professors of anthropology into UX classes) would be much more difficult if possible at all. And giving students and clients a collaborative space where they can see progress and contribute has been invaluable.
Also, Apple has a tool called Freeform. And Zoom has whiteboard features as well. Overall they each seem to have a feature that sells the platform (for instance, FigJam integrates very nicely with Figma in particular the ability to copy and past between the two giving the whiteboards beautifully formatted assets). However, overall I keep coming back to Miro as a full feature, robust tool.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Miro has worked really well leading workshops where a group of stakeholders come up with potential names for a brand. I have run several of these and have trained other designers on how to do it. The potential to bring in experts (i.e linguists) would be very difficult in a physical location.

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