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Jenny Mullane
Jenny MullaneBeginner
posted in Inspiration and connection

Board Design Best Practices

Hi there, I’ve been using MIRO for about 4 weeks now, and I was wondering if anyone has tips on design best practices when it comes to balancing text size, to frame size, to zoom ratio? (if that makes sense)

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Max Harper
3 years ago
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CORNELIUS COSENTINONew Here
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Miro for program development: International Film Festival

Planning a first one of a kind film festival scheduled now for the Fall of 2023  Would like to use MIRO for the program development any ideas how best ?

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mlanders
3 years ago
Kiron Bondale
Kiron BondaleVolunteer Community Moderator
posted in Inspiration and connection

Challenge: What's the craziest thing you can imagine using Miro for?

It would be interesting to see what folks come up for this challenge  . Mine would be to invite a few hundred of my contacts to all join me on a board which has a background image of flowers. Then, with the collaborators’ cursors turned on, have them go crazy jumping from flower-to-flower and have the whole thing recorded with the musical accompaniment of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee. Top that!

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6 months ago
Brittni
BrittniRetired Mironeer
published in Inspiration and connection

“Zoom Fatigue” Is it real?TGIF

Hey everyone! Happy Friday 😊   I don’t know about you but lately I’ve been having soooo many video conferencing calls. Back to back. One zoom call to a google hangout to a FaceTime and so on and so on. I completely understand that during this time we’re all trying to stay connected and can feel isolated just being at home but I’ve almost hit a breaking point.    How are all of you handling this? Any tips and tricks?     

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Todd Nilson
3 years ago
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Joel R KennisonNew Here
posted in Inspiration and connection

Managing Complex Projects

Hello, How can Miro help manage a complex project with multiple milestones, checklists and roles and responsibilities?  These projects can span months and years.  They many times have multiple phases and external vendors who have deliverable and timelines.

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mlanders
3 years ago
Kyle.C
Kyle.CActive Contributor
posted in Inspiration and connection

I Still Don't Have the Hang of Working From Home

I’ve been working from home for a few months now, and I feel like I should feel comfortable at this point. But I don’t. My first month working from home, I was making some amazing breakfasts! Fresh Omelets w/ Fruit. Now, I might eat a bagel. I used to get excited to work on my latest projects! Now I just want to play video games. I’ve read our community tips and feedback on working from home, as well as other good sources. But I still don’t have the hang of this. I struggle to separate work life and home life. I could feel comfortable while working and then uncomfortable trying to relax. Or, I could feel uncomfortable working and then cozy on the couch to relax. Is this what life is like working from home? Cycling in and out of comfort?   I’m especially interested to hear what the long-term work-from-homers have experienced :)

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Kiron Bondale
3 years ago
Amber
AmberNew Here
posted in Inspiration and connection

How did you go about discovering how Miro’s feature set best fit your organizations communication needs?

Hi Everyone, I’d like to share some context then I’ll dive into the meat of the question. I am a UX/Product designer that is currently leading a small volunteer team that is working through how we can improve the experience of working remotely for our company. One continual pain-point has been the lack of ability to quickly move from discussion, to drawing out the idea or concept being described. So we did some quick testing of different apps and some discovery work with different hardware solutions and decided we would like to see Miro + iPads tested with a larger group.    The feature set of a digital communication tool like Miro is new to us, really to the company at large. The UX team has done some dabbling in testing tools like this, but nothing ever stuck. So to frame the type of experimentation we are hoping for well, think of it like a discovery phase. We are hoping to learn what is out there, what applies, what doesn’t apply, who uses it and how does it impact how they comm

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Robert Johnson
2 years ago
Marina
Mironeer
MarinaMironeer
published in Inspiration and connection

What do you typically use Miro for?poll

Hi everyone, I wonder, what is your primary use case in Miro? You can choose only one option in the poll, though you are welcome to share in the comments if you use Miro for various use cases   

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2 years ago
ronny
ronnyContributor
posted in Inspiration and connection

Templating Miro.com boards

We open sourced a library to template boards and integrate Miro into the company data flow.Miro.com is an awesome online whiteboard for visual collaboration. We fall in love with it right when using it for the very first time! Level 1: Scale up best practices with templatesOnce we started adopting Miro, we learned that certain usage patterns work better than others. Instead of reinventing the wheel with each new board, we wanted to roll out our best practices. What we needed were templates.Miro comes with a collection of pre-defined templates to get users started. Yet, we found that our specific use cases required more tailored templates. Although Miro doesn’t offer user-created templates as of today, Miro does have an API to programmatically create and query boards.So, we set out to explored the API route. We encountered some challenges as the API supports only a subset of what the Miro UI can but by-and-large it turned out pretty well! We can design boards in the Miro UI, convert the

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ronny
3 years ago
Isman Tanuri
Isman TanuriMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection

Jigsaw Puzzle and other cool Miro games ideas 🧩

Want to try an original jigsaw puzzle that I created in Miro? Do share your other fun Miro ideas too!    

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Marina
Mironeer
3 years ago
Kiron Bondale
Kiron BondaleVolunteer Community Moderator
posted in Inspiration and connection

Loving the new Grid tool!

The new Grid tool showed up in my Miro environment today and I love it compared to the basic table tool! The ability to easily move columns and rows around, to have multiple collaborators able to edit different cells at the same time and to drop objects into the cells are a big step forward.  Now, I just have to go back to all the boards in which I’d created “fake” grids using rectangles and combinations of text boxes and other objects and replace them with grids  ! Kiron

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Kiron Bondale
2 years ago
Marina
Mironeer
MarinaMironeer
published in Inspiration and connection

What book/books are you currently reading? 📚TGIF

Hi all,  I wonder if we have avid readers here    As for me, I am reading several books at a time (not sure if it is the right approach though ). They are so different!  The Power of Focus (a self-help book on business, personal and financial success) The Courage to Be Disliked (Alfred Adler’s psychology and philosophy with a little bit of oriental wisdom) The Miracle Morning (very inspiring; that’s the second time I’m reading it) Get Together (a great book on community building) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (do I even need to explain?  ) Super interested in what Miro Community are reading! Share your books in the comments  Let’s have our own book club 

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Dan Fennessy
3 years ago
Isman Tanuri
Isman TanuriMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection

Attention Management feature

Is no one talking about the Attention Management feature yet? This is so very welcomed and a major feature!  Every session for a new group of training or workshop participants, it usually takes a while for participants to learn the "Watch my screen" instruction when I start screen sharing. Sometimes, participants didn't even see the blue 'Join' button (tip: Refresh browser/app if this happens) This Attention Management feature just shortened this entire process! Thank you, @Marina and team, more love and power to Miro :)

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Kiron Bondale
3 years ago
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Margaret HidenNew Here
posted in Inspiration and connection

Using Miro to capture questions in trainings and workshops

Hello all. I am an instructional designer and trainer. In a month from now, my team will be making the switch from the in-person classroom to the digital classroom and we rely on tools such as Miro. Most of our classes are heavily discussion based and there’s a lot of back and forth instructor/student engagement.  Has anyone successfully leveraged Miro to serve as a place to direct and field questions throughout training sessions? If so, I would appreciate anyone sharing their successes and set-up. Thanks! 

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Isman Tanuri
3 years ago
Max Harper
Max HarperMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection

Building Miro Plugins is Literally Life Changing: Miro API is 🚀

We’ve been having a blast developing tools for this community on the Miro API/SDK.  ‘Blast’ doesn’t capture it… the ability to build tools on top of all the amazing features in Miro is straight-up life changing.  The developer docs and sample projects are well put together and make it easy to get started. Its not rocket science -- but the potential feels … astronomical 🤓 ←  Miro now  |   Miro after the creative world discovers the API → What follows is a glimpse into how its been going. We’re about to begin sharing the tools in beta. We’ll keep you posted.  Always eager to share what we’ve learned and collaborate with other Miro enthusiasts. I’ll probably post over in the ‘Developer Forum’ a deeper dive into some of the more developer side of things…     Miro Plugin Development Project HQ Here’s some screenshots of our development HQ Miro board … don’t mind the mess, if I knew you were coming over I’d have cleaned the place up.   The High Level Top left / top: Concept, Glossary and Re

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3 years ago
Johan
JohanContributor
posted in Inspiration and connection

How to form a Vision Statement using Miro

I am running a workshop where one of the tasks of the participants is to formulate a statement around their Vision. I wanted to reach out to the Miro Community to see how others are doing it. This is a simplified summary of my approach:  1. I ask them to fill out a survey where they each are to describe their Vision. 2. I invite them to the board where they get 3 dot-votes to vote on the contributions they think are the best (if it is a 10 people team, there will be 10 formulated Vision Statements to vote on). 3. I ask them to look at the results from the vote, and describe the Vision with 1 word only. This creates 10 words which all are probably very important to the Vision.  4. Filled with insights (hopefully) from the vote and the 10 words, I ask them to come up with an updated version of the Vision Statement using the 1-2-4-All tecnhique. I feel that this creates a lot of engagement during the process, but sometimes people are not ending up with a conclusion they hoped for / feel c

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Andrea de Wattignar
3 years ago
Yash
YashContributor
posted in Inspiration and connection

Cardsy - create Cards in bulk from selected widgets on the board

Cardsy Easily generate cards in bulk from selected widgets on your Miro boards. We all love Miro, and I wanted to repay Miro somehow for providing such an amazing product. So I made a plugin which is gonna be lot of use to me.Do check it out maybe it might save some of your time as well.I would appreciate any kind feedback.😊 Use caseYou have filled your board with your precious ideas in various widgets like Text, Sticky, or Shapes.Now, you want to take advantages of Miro cards properties likeassigning a date (could be a deadline) assigning a team member writing detailed description use them in your Kanban framework.Steps to use:-Select some widgets from your board Click on the plugin icon in bottom bar of the board. Done! All the cards are created with their title from the selected widget’s content.You can freely use this quick plugin I made by adding to your Miro board. Add Cardsy to your board

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Robert Johnson
7 months ago
Mauro Lupi
Mauro LupiMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection

Objectives Template - active bars to show priorities

Hi community! I like to share a trick to show and easily manage a set of bars on Miro. For example, I use it in workshops together with my clients to define Objectives & KPIs for Digital Strategy. All the elements on the board are locked except the rectangles (horizontal and vertical) that you could stretch until arrive at the level you want. Here is a public board to see an example:     BTW, this board should be also a good template for Miro users (beyond the bar function).  Cheers, Mauro

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Kristin
Mironeer
3 years ago
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Craig StanleyNew Here
posted in Inspiration and connection

Using Miro for online Design Sprints

Hello  I am part of the team that organise the annual innovationfestival.org  This event will be an online event this year and I am looking at how we can transition our 4 / 5 day design sprints online. Would anyone be willing to share their experience and ideas around best practice around running Design Sprints using Miro?  Do you have any specific tips to our users who are perhaps new to online cooperation.   Many thanks   Craig Stanley

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Isman Tanuri
3 years ago
Brittni
BrittniRetired Mironeer
published in Inspiration and connection

Podcasts! What are you listening to?TGIF

Hey everyone! Brittni here    So happy it’s Friday! I am a podcast junkie and during this quarantine I’ve been listening to so many podcasts and even listening to old episodes of some of my favorites. I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music now which is crazy for me. I’m even starting my own podcast with my friend since highschool (everyone has a podcast  )  Here’s just a sample of what I’m listening to:   How Did This Get Made (Best Episode...Monkey Shines) Pod Save America RedHanded Newcomers: Star Wars, with Lauren Lapkus and Nicole Byer Comedy Bang Bang Lovett or Leave it In Voorhees We Trust with Gourley and Rust In Myers We Trust with Gyers and Rust Pod Save the World B*tch Sesh Any other podcast junkies out there? What are you listening to?

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Kiron Bondale
3 years ago
Kiron Bondale
Kiron BondaleVolunteer Community Moderator
posted in Inspiration and connection

Bragging rights: Share the most creative artwork you have made natively within Miro!

As inspired by @Sam Shennan, this is a call to all the creative folks out there who are using Miro! If you have created some artwork natively (i.e. without copying and pasting or uploading content from outside of Miro) which you feel is worthy of exhibition in a museum (or at least your foyer  ), please share it with the rest of the Miro community below! To avoid conflict of interest and because I don’t have a visual creative bone in my body, I will not be submitting my “chicken scratch” Miro drawings  Since I guess I should share just how bad my drawings are: (It’s an eye if you were having difficulties with it :-) ) 

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Patty Dowdy
2 years ago
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Katalin BodiNew Here
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Brainstorming on info architect and content structures

I’m looking for practical tips on how to plan a live design session for brainstorming about info architect and content structures. Anyone has experience doing similar workshops in Miro?

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Iris
Mironeer
3 years ago
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Sam ShennanBeginner
posted in Inspiration and connection

Using Miro for hosting collaborative drawing classes

I’m running my Mindful Drawing online workshop within my Miro board.  I host an audience and use the board’s drawing tool to demonstrate to the audience.  Viewers can work on their tasks off to the side of the main area and I can zoom and pan out to look at their work while keeping an eye on everyone at once.  It’s rad.  I’m also using the collaborative board privately with my artists friends to play around during calls when we catch up during lockdown.     

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3 years ago
ronny
ronnyContributor
posted in Inspiration and connection

Miro for Design Thinking

NEXT and Miro come together to make the 'new normal' a better normal. Our goal with this partnership is to remove any friction from the user experience, so the end users don't feel like they are switching between multiple solutions when trying to get work done. Details: https://blog.collaborne.com/miro-next-creating-the-future-of-business-design-and-its-remote-35e8a371ecd4  

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ronny
4 years ago
Jonathan White
Jonathan WhiteGroup Leader
posted in Inspiration and connection

Comments - Any procedures or ideas to keep a handle on them?

I love the comment function in Miro.  Tagging people or the entire board works great when you want to draw someone’s attention to a specific area of the board. It’s great that you can hide comments, resolve comments, and view only comments that you are tagged in. Still, when I work with my teams, the comments quickly get out of control and clutter the board. Hiding all comments is nice, but puts you at risk of missing when someone needs your feedback or input. Many of the comments on my boards are good comments, but they are left as hanging ideas that might never be resolved fully, and so they stay unresolved. Has anyone developed a procedure or guidelines for commenting on a board that prevent comments from getting out of control? Things like: when to comment tagging rules when to resolve a comment moving from comments to action (develop the ideas behind a comment on the board using templates) Some best practices or guidance in the area of commenting would surely be helpful, what do y

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Jonathan White
3 years ago
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