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Braving Through Remote Work

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Notice for NUS Students

Special instructions to set up education account for Miro here

Miro

An online collaborative whiteboarding platform that enables distributed teams to work effectively together, from brainstorming with digital sticky notes to planning and managing agile workflows.

Link to Miro's official webpage

Design Process

  • Empathise

  • Define

  • Ideate

  • Prototype & Reiterate

  • Test

Operating System

  • Web Browser

  • Miro for Apple devices:​

    • ​OS x 10.9 or higher

    • Mobile/Tablet - IOS 9.0 or later

  • Miro for Windows:

    • Windows 7 or higher + Microsoft .NET framwork 4.5

  • Miro for Andriod:

    • 4.1 and up​

Registration

Best Used For

  • Brainwriting & Ideating

  • Low-fi Prototyping

  • Mapping & Diagramming

  • Rough Sketching

  • Strategy & Planning

Useful Features

  • ​Built-in Timer

  • Built-in Voting

  • Built-in Video Conferencing

  • Google Drive Plugin

  • Post-its

  • Pen Tool (comes with Smartdraw option)

  • Templates

Export Options

  • Save as image

    • High quality vector export (JPEG)​

  • Save as PDF

  • Save board as template​

  • Download board backup

  • Embed
  • Export to spreadsheet (.CSV)
  • Save to Google Drive
  • Attach to Jira
  • Print boards

Pros

  • Variety of templates with detailed guides

  • Infinite canvas

  • Unlimited users

  • Ability to edit Google Drive files directly

  • Presentation efficient - Exported frames within board will be saved as individual frames

  • Highly integrated with many other applications

  • Supports PDF and image uploads 

  • Ability to shadow presenter

  • Ability to sign-in on multiple devices at once

  • Ability to import spreadsheet information as individual post-its by copying from cells and pasting onto whiteboard

Cons

  • No version history (cannot restore old versions)

  • Does not support video uploads (can only embed via URL)

  • Integrations of other applications may be slightly complicated and time-consuming

  • Drawings are recognized as vectors (eraser function erases entire stroke/drawing)

Miro NUS special instructions
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