Gestures:
- Pan functionality:
- Cannot pan with the trackpad on iPad’s Magic Keyboard.
- Add functionalities where the person can hold down a key (which can be modified based on the user’s preferences) and scrolling using the trackpad (without actually pressing the trackpad) to Pan through the canvas.
- When the iPad is connected to an external mouse (not limited to Apple’s mouse), add functionalites where users can designate custom uses for the buttons (the two primary buttons and the scroll wheel + any extra buttons that the mouse may have).
- Add a functionality to zoom in/out by scrolling the scroll wheel of the mouse and holding down a button on the Magic Keyboard (the button can be modified based on the user’s preferences).
- Just scrolling the scroll wheel up/down will pan the canvas up/down.
- Add a setting to set the direction the canvas will scroll (natural scrolling, etc).
- Add a functionality to pan by holding the scroll wheel button down.
- A quick fix might be to add a pan functionality on the sidebar - similar to the pointer tool.
- Dedicate a key for user’s to quickly switch to the pan functionality and using the trackpad/mouse for easy panning.
- Please refer the similar functionalities and gestures for Panning set out by Adobe XD - which they have done beautifully. This if replicated or done better by Miro will help streamline and speed up the workflows for its users.
- Pen Tool:
- One of the key tasks I have seen people do on Miro is to cluster thoughts, ideas, and post-its.
- Another way of visually clustering massive data-sets is to add a shape encompassing all the data-sets.
- Miro does allow users to create shapes, but the shapes are pre-defined.
- Suggestion: A pen tool similar to Illustrator to create custom shapes.
- The pen tool should have a feature to smoothen the edges so that people can directly take screenshots of the Miro board and use them as deliverables and are not forced to recreate it on Illustrator.
- Also allow functionalities of filling the colour in the new shape, opacity, border properties etc.
- See below images for reference.
- Post-its:
- Custom colour selection for Post-its.
- Custom resise of Post-its (not bound by the limits of width and height).
- Extra text properties for Post-its:
- All fonts
- Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, Underline, etc.
- Others.
