Option to make an entire object a clickable hyperlink

I was really hoping by how old this thread was that I would get to the final page of comments and find it was solved. A whole bunch of new AI features added but still not clickable buttons! +1 request for clickable buttons.

​@Kate Killick 

YES YES YES . . . as much as I love Miro it is one of those times I have to to ask: WHAT ARE THESE GUYS THINKING?!?!?

That one little feature could TRANSFORM so many aspects of Miro: how presentations are made, gamification, and much more.

Now . . . sometimes things like this just aren’t possible for patent reasons. Maybe somebody holds the patent on this idea and Miro doesn’t want to pay the zillions to license it?

But if that is NOT true . . . then how the otherwise-mega-talented Miro staff could not find the benefits in this little feature is completely beyond human comprehension!

I’d like to register my significant concern and complaint that this feature hasn’t actually been delivered as requested and actually breaks all of our boards instead of improves them.

The original request was “Option to make an entire object a clickable hyperlink” with the notable element being OPTION.

What you’ve actually done is fundamentally and retrospecively changed the interaction design for every single shape that people have ever linked. With no choice available at all.

So where people (and I include myself for this) added a link to create a small link/arrow icon at the top of the shape to facilitate people moving around the board when they’ve finished in a particular workspace/zone. But you’ve now turned whole group exercise workspaces into a giant and uncontrollable buttons! We didn’t even use wire framing shapes - just normal shapes.

With no warning, no option to turn it off. There are many boards on the Miroverse that use this approach, and we’ve got hundreds of boards and thousands of group work area defined by coloured background shapes what link to the next group or facilitation activity that have become giant, unusable buttons. 

We’ve complained but have not had a satisfactory response. It seems to have been fully intentional to change every single Miro board in this way. 

To say I’m annoyed and upset is an understatement. For experts in interaction design, it feels incredibly thoughtless and disappointing that you’ve only considered one segment of users in this change.

Amazingly there are a significant number of people that use Miro for facilitation of large groups and for training - not just prototyping and wireframing. 

The original request was the OPTION to change the nature of a shape. I can see the benefit of this.

But to retrospectively change the interaction design of the last 8 years of our Miro boards and every Miroverse board to render them unusable (shapes that had a small link arrow in the top right of the shape have now ALL become giant unusble buttons where users can no longer work. It changes colour, and if users click off a postit note, or try and create anything—off they go to another area of the board that they didn’t intend to go.

It’s a massive change from ‘When you’re ready, just click on the arrow at the top of the workspace’. 

I don’t really even know how to fix everything as every board is locked - there are literally thousands of linked shapes - that have worked very well over the years as usable work zones for us and attendees alike. It’s not really our job to fix.

Please enable us to set a object link behaviour default at account and board level to be able to turn object link behaviour back to how it has been since Miro started, and then also give us a switch between small link arrow/full button options on a shape by shape basis. 

I know I sound frustrated and upset - it’s just that Miro works(ed) so well for us over the years that when you change the foundational principles of the interaction design and board layout without considering all your users needs, it’s really really bad practice, breaks hundreds of thousands of hours of hard work in board design—and makes me concerned about the future of the product as to what else you might break if this has been your approach this time round.

Hopefully you can help fix this.