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Kyle.C
Kyle.CActive Contributor
posted in Inspiration and connection
How Do You "Switch On" For Your Work Day?

Remote work and WFH is certainly growing as countries keep safe from COVID19. A lot of folks are new to working from home. I also know that a lot of Miro users have been doing this for years! So for those seasoned experts out there… How do you “switch on” to begin your work day? How do you “switch off” at the end of your work day?   Personally I don’t like working from home because I have a hard time staying focused. So I need to keep routine to “switch on” and start my work day. Get dressed in my work-casual clothes, designate a specific work area, open the computer and turn on a podcast. Switching off at the end of the day has always been easy. Once I clock out and physically close the laptop, my brain knows exactly how to divide work from home life     

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Kiron Bondale
4 years ago
mlanders
mlandersExperienced Community Member
posted in Inspiration and connection
Tom Solid's Presentation of Stickies Capture

Hello, I would like to share a video of Tom Solid, who is founder of PaperlessMovement. He shows what the Stickies Capture in comparission with the Post-it-App can do:   Guess who the winner is? I know what I can do with this feature but after this video I was impressed.   Thank you at miro for creating this!!! Michael

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Kiron Bondale
4 years ago
Kyle.C
Kyle.CActive Contributor
posted in Inspiration and connection
When Starting a New Project, What Causes the Most Friction?

Recently, I’ve been exploring some of the major anxieties that startup companies have. Now, I am led to the question that I think a lot of us have answers to…   When starting a new project, what causes the most friction?   I’m in the tech industry (mobile apps), which means things keep changing and keeping up with new devices and software makes my job harder. On the other hand, it is the reason I have a job and I love what I do! More specifically, I use Miro to keep organized when I need to manage a change in app logic or update software from one version to the next.   But some teams in my office don’t want to use Miro! Which can cause FRICTION!

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Sam ShennanBeginner
posted in Inspiration and connection
Building my Bullet Journal within Miro

I’m taking the time to create my BUJO in Miro.  I’m a visual person and miss having things laid out infront of me.  My tiny bedroom studio in Belgium has shrunk my useable space for work planning.  I miss my big wall, I miss my studio.  Miro solved my problem by allowing me to spread out and take the space i need to create my mental maps. 

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mlanders
4 years ago
Marina
Mironeer
MarinaMironeer
published in Inspiration and connection
Ten learnings from a UX Researcher

A great story by a UX Researcher at Uber where she shares ten important lessons she learned while working for the company: Think globally Assess and prioritize Get out there (get into the user’s context) Get creative with your methods Bring stakeholders into the field Experiment with new methods of sharing insights Collaborate cross-functionally Expect the unexpected Reflect, recover…and then act Never “I”, always “we” What would you add to the list? Speaking about cross-functional collaboration, which teams do you usually work with?

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4 years ago
Stas Kulesh
Stas KuleshBeginner
posted in Inspiration and connection
Using Miro for Knowledge Base at Karma

My team is building Karma: peer recognition and appreciation tool for remote teams. Due to the Covid situation globally, we’ve been getting 3x more new registrations than usual. We had to make sure the product development keeps up with such crazy pace. Our product team has started using Miro for documentation. Keeping product design notes accompanied by the visuals and screenshots on Miro helped us to speed the internal communications drastically. This is just the beginning, but I, as a founder, feel very positive about the whole Miro Wiki experience for now. Will keep you posted. Thanks!  

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Stas Kulesh
4 years ago
Katie Donahoe
Katie DonahoeNew Here
posted in Inspiration and connection
Presenting Designs Remotely Using Miro

Hi,  Our customer experience team is a cross-office and semi-remote team. We were struggling to document concepts, host conversations, write feedback and showing the whiteboard during virtual meetings.  That’s how we landed on Miro. I started experimenting with miro as a central location to host tangible deliverables when working with a development team. Anything from the project scope, UX workshops, mapping out workflows, wireframes, and mockups. It became the sharing point when meeting with project managers, fellow designers, and developers.   It solves all of the problems I mentioned earlier. We were able to document early-stage concepts using stickies. We were able to provide feedback, having back and forth conversations virtually using the comments, which was especially useful when working across time zones. The biggest difference it made, was that we could brainstorm, and point to visuals all in one central location. When “whiteboarding” ideas in the office the virtual attendees

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Katie Donahoe
4 years ago
mlanders
mlandersExperienced Community Member
posted in Inspiration and connection
Miro for coaching and systemic consulting to solve problems with/for clients

Hi everyone, I am Michael. Since the 1990th i am a passionate MindMapper who loves to work graphic-oriented and loves everything wich helps to simplify complicated things. Last year i discovered miro:  A colleague asked me if i can join her online consulting to test her system. It was a good web-based consulting system, but it has a lot of not so good things: It was in a graphical way based on a 1990th design It was not enough customizable for consulting and coaching needs It should offer something template-made wich can easyli shown up for individual consulting settings It should have pictures in it (i love to work with pictures) and i want not to buy a lot of pictures for the whole settings So i searched a whole 4 days and i found miro. I started my free-account and hey: Over 200.000 best quality pictures Icons The ability to drag documents Arrows to connect something FreeText And whooohoooohooo: Stickies Even in the free account a lot to offer … but then: The consultant account: I w

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Martina Crnkovic
4 years ago
Robert Skrobe
Robert SkrobeContributor
posted in Inspiration and connection
Remote Working and the Coronavirus

Hi all! I’m wondering how all of you are faring with the uptick in remote work and using Miro as a central tool with distributed work efforts.  I wrote an article about all the activity I’m seeing, and wondering if anyone here is experiencing the same:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/worlds-remote-moment-here-robert-skrobe/ Looking forward to hearing from you!

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KcChano
4 years ago
Xenia
Mironeer
XeniaMironeer
posted in Inspiration and connection
As a PM, how is working remote with your team going?

Last week was the first for our product-dev teams working fully remote! So many adjustments! From our home workspaces, to communication, to coffee-making, lots of routines now look different.   On Friday, when we ran the retrospective, we used Mad Sad Glad framework to share our emotions about the new order. Team was mad and sad about things like slow internet speed at home, an unstable working day, too little movement compared to going outside and walking around the office, the uncertainty, and having to cook instead of having snacks at the office But most votes were around the cluster of communication: low level of personal face-to-face communication is new for us, and we miss good old water cooler and coffee chats   Though we are replacing them with Zoom coffee chats!    Did you read our Ultimate Guide to Remote Work yet? We are learning to work from home together with you 

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Xenia
Mironeer
4 years ago
razburciu
razburciuMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection
Remote Facilitation Best Practices

Hey everyone! We just had an amazing live virtual event called Remote Facilitation Best Practices. We shared best-in-class advice, resources and best practices on how to prepare and facilitate remote work sessions, from meetings to workshops.    Here’s the Miro Board from yesterday’s event :   

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4 years ago
razburciu
razburciuMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection
How To: Remote Design Sprints

Let’s talk Remote Design Sprints! This conversation is open to anyone looking to learn how to organise, prepare and facilitate a Design Sprint with distributed teams.   All levels of experience are welcome, whether you’re a versed facilitator or just starting off. Let’s learn from each other, share mistakes, lessons and become better facilitators.   Have specific questions in mind about Remote Design Sprints? Let’s talk about them ;) 

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razburciu
4 years ago
Xenia
Mironeer
XeniaMironeer
posted in Inspiration and connection
Examples of User Delight in products we love

It's mid-spring, should we talk something pleasant, like User Delight? We have all experienced it: this "wow" moment, this "they already know me" feeling, an extra mile that a great product has walked to delight you. Be it Asana's unicorn, flying across your screen like a shooting star, or Trello's confetti, or Typeform's delightful microcopy—they all make a customer go "oh, coool"! “User delight refers to any positive emotional affect that a user may have when interacting with a device or interface”, says the definition. Yes, we human beings are driven by emotions! Where do these emotions lead though? Well, rumor has it, they can make your product sticky, serve your Net Promoter Score, and eventually help you fight churn. In this superb article by CopyHackers you can find some examples of how other companies added more delight into the mix https://copyhackers.com/2019/08/user-centric-delight-audit-saas/Can you name one delight that you came across in any product you have recently used

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Xenia
Mironeer
4 years ago
Melissa Halim
Mironeer
Melissa HalimMironeer
posted in Inspiration and connection
Canceled conferences and travel bans?

We’ve been tracking all the canceled in-person conferences. What’re your thoughts on event organizers pivoting to virtual conferences?    We did this last year with Distributed 2019 and wrote up some of our learnings here: https://miro.com/blog/remote-conferences/   Has your company instituted any new work from home policies or travel bans? 

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Robert Skrobe
4 years ago
Lena Shenkarenko
Lena ShenkarenkoExperienced Community Member
posted in Inspiration and connection
Mirohacks

Even though I work in Miro and have been using it myself daily for over 3 years now, I’m constantly looking for cool tips & tricks that can speed up my work on the boards. For example, creating new sticky notes using Cmd+D shortcut never gets old for me, and I always mention it to everyone who is just starting out with our product. I also love the linking feature, which allows me to create connections between any widgets on the board.    What are your favorite Mirohacks? 

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4 years ago
Stas Kulesh
Stas KuleshBeginner
posted in Inspiration and connection
Peer appreciation and recognition on Miro

I’m making Karma is a peer recognition and appreciation platform for businesses. Basically, we are trying to make remote work more pleasant: when colleagues say ‘thank-you’s more often, then bond better and get all sorts of emotional benefits. No one’s ever levet their job because of feeling OVERappreciated. Here at Karma, we LOVE Miro very much and admire the way it grows and develops. During one of the brainstoming sessions, the team seriously considered integrating with Miro, but we couldn’t find the relevant API for comments. Would Miro team open it up for Karma? I’ll give you a quick example on how it could work: @user comments on any board element or leaves a note: ‘@stas++ for bringing this up’ Karma gets this event and figures out that Stas has just got +1 karma from User. Karma responds to the comment/note a cool inspiring note to confirm the point was successfully gathered: ‘Cool! Stas has just got +1 karma from User. Keep it up!’. Ideally, simiarly to what we’ve done on Slac

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Boris Borodyansky
Mironeer
4 years ago
Oleg K
Oleg KContributor
posted in Inspiration and connection
Valuable product management resources

Hi there, Recently I’ve stuck upon a GitHub page dedicated to Product Management. I thought it could be a great starting point to share the best resources on the web — articles, videos, books, reports, or anything else you find valuable. Let’s go!

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4 years ago
Robert Skrobe
Robert SkrobeContributor
posted in Inspiration and connection
Using Miro for minor tasks

Hi there! I’m wondering how many of you have leveraged Miro for things like to-do lists, organizing things to do, etc.  In contrast to other options like Trello or something like Google Keep, do you use Miro for specific things in this genre? Thanks in advance for any perspective you can provide. :)

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Robert Skrobe
4 years ago
Marina
Mironeer
MarinaMironeer
published in Inspiration and connection
Brainstorm your brainstorm

I’ve recently came across the article on effective brainstorming techniques on Medium - https://medium.com/taking-note/effective-brainstorming-techniques-c84a1158134d.  Top highlight: In any brainstorm, there’s usually a handful of people who do most of the talking, while others only pipe up when asked to share.   I wonder, what are the golden rules of brainstorming sessions for you and your team? 

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4 years ago
Robert Skrobe
Robert SkrobeContributor
posted in Inspiration and connection
Active authors who write about Miro?

Hi all! I’m a semi-newbie to Miro (in that I haven’t used it much) and would like to understand the nuances of it’s application from different people who are active users.  Could anyone point me to some recent case studies or articles where Miro was part of a project/endeavor?     It can be on Medium, a related Miro blog, LinkedIn, etc.  Doesn’t really matter. :)   Thanks in advance!

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Robert Skrobe
4 years ago
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Michael LuchenMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection
We love Miro so much, we created a video about it!

, all! As I’m sure is the case for many of you, Miro has led to fundamental improvements in my team collaboration, for the better. At Crema, it set a new standard for how quickly a tool could be adopted and loved by everyone. In this video, George Brooks and myself discuss what we love about Miro. If you like this type of content, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel to get notified when part two is available.     What do you love about Miro? How has it impacted your teams and workflows?

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Marina
Mironeer
4 years ago
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