Miro Review

We use Miro for async collaboration, organising complex projects, and running internal workshops. Miro helps us keep everything up to date in 'real-time' and also enables us to kick off collaboration in seconds—no more need to spend days organizing sticky notes and Sharpies. The AI features also fast-track our synthesis and affinity mapping process—this saves us a lot of mental capacity and gives us more time back to the actual workshop.

- Digital sticky notes are great for jotting down ideas quickly. - Artboards make it easy to organise activities or ideas. - The AI features have added a massive boost to productivity. e.g., synthesizing and an affinity map in a fraction of the time during a high-pressure workshop. - Tables and grids are useful features that have been developed recently. It helps organise complex information and keeps it nicely visually aligned. - The dot voting feature is excellent and is better than using little red circles that people must drag. - The commenting feature is an expected feature, but it's super powerful if you want to get some feedback. It's much better than other commenting features in the Microsoft suite.

I hadn't used a whiteboarding tool before Miro. But I have found that Miro can replace many other tools, e.g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Not in all cases, but it's hands-down better for generating and documenting ideas quickly and coherently. I don't know what I'd use without Miro in the picture. FigJam is coming up in the ranks, but I find it's a more primitive version of Miro.