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Excellent design tool
What do you like best about the product?
Lucidchart is an excellent tool for quickly making charts of software dependencies and architecture. It is very intuitive, and offers a great variety of tools for team collaboration such as export links which update with the original documents. For the most part it is very lightweight and powerful, and always hsa the tools I'm looking for. It even contains a full library of UML diagramming tools which I've found very useful from time to time. The ability to change the background color of boxes has been central to my team's strategy, and the presentation mode has been excellent to show off diagrams quickly in meetings.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can on occasion be a little glitchy. Sometimes selects more than you expect when you select multiple items, and arrows don't always snap properly. I can't say for sure, but it seems like when I leave it open for a very long time (overnight), that Chrome slows down a lot. This certainly isn't an issue though during daily use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're moving large amounts of code between multiple projects and need to identify all the dependencies. Lucidchart has made diagramming the dependencies of these files very simple so that we can easily show other teams exactly what files are moving, and what effects it will have on the system.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely check out the beta. the interface is much cleaner and feels more like a modern application. The standard version works just as well, but the look and feel of the beta is a big improvement.
Lucidchart has been a great replacement for Visio
What do you like best about the product?
After battling Visio for years. I am so happy to now use Lucid Chart. It makes diagramming quick and easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
I honestly cannot think of anything negative to say
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem that Lucid Chart helps me solve is articulating network traffic flows a way that every member of the intended audience can understand.
Just what you need and nothing you don't
What do you like best about the product?
It's free! It does what I need. When I use Visio, I only use a couple features anyway, and those are the features in Lucidchart. It's easy to share and export and easy to pick up and start using right away.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't think there was anything. I use it when my needs aren't very complicated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm a software product manager so I put together a lot of workflows for the software and also for internal processes.
Finally, your perfect Visio replacement for all charting/plotting
What do you like best about the product?
We love the collaborative aspects of real time diagramming and sharing to our Intranet of workflows that we have developed. Even better is the amount of time we now spend embedding links to other workflows and data within the workflows designed in LC. The mobile apps have gotten so strong that I can now do most of my diagramming from my iPad while on the road and can review and comment on others' work too.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing we do not like about this product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted a replacement for Visio and actually replaced Visio across our entire company with Lucidchart due to its amazing toolkit, Chrome and Google compatibility and collaborative functionality. Every workflow, org chart and business process designed in our company is now done through Lucidchart.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get a trial version if you are on the fence and give it a few weeks against Visio.
Easy Diagramming for the Whole Team
What do you like best about the product?
There's a lot of things that are great about Lucidcharts: the ability to easily create diagrams, share diagrams, collaboration, and that's integrated with Google. This is another tool that you can very quickly get up to speed because of how easy the interface is to use. Even though this tool can both diagram and wireframe, I personally only use it for diagramming. I don't feel comfortable using it for wireframming, but it's something I might want to explore more.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that I can have alignment issues when I don't line up shapes "just so".
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This tool has helped my team to very quickly collaborate on a diagram and iterate on the work. It's something that's helped improve the day-to-day of many team members to quickly create high quality diagrams without have the typical Adobe software.
Lucid Chart is the Future
What do you like best about the product?
The cloud flexibility and the massive variety of diagramming types.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is some update lag with the cloud application. I found understanding layers difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visualization of capabilities, services and technology.
Connecting the visualizations with data would be a major next step!
Connecting the visualizations with data would be a major next step!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Connection to data would be great....like linking Excel to Visio
Helpful for Assignments
What do you like best about the product?
I'm currently an online student at the University of Phoenix. Although we had access to Microsoft Visio for some classes others we did not. That is where Lucidchart was a big help. It contained all the tools I need to complete assignment and I was able to share my charts with team members on projects that we needed to complete. I invested in the subscription as an alternative to what the school offered.
What do you dislike about the product?
Based on my limited use for school assignments, I liked the features that I used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was able to emulate real world processes and explain via the charts what those processes were.
Intelligent and Intuitive tool.
What do you like best about the product?
It is simple and intuitive, I am able to present and organize complex information quickly and communicate this with colleagues.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find the mind mapping can be awkward at times. I often need to delete all the arrows and reattach them after making changes to or additions to a chart.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Communicating ideas to colleagues on strategic and curricula planning. Also sharing and collaborating through the Google Apps interface.
A tool that assists my business in so many ways
What do you like best about the product?
You can train a newbie on how to use this product in under five minutes yet they can spend the rest of their lives finding new things to do with it.
I work with new people, partners and clients regularly and I'm always putting them onto Lucid Chart. When they realize how easy it is to collaborate and share they fall in love with the product too.
The search feature to find new icons, images, etc. is amazing. Type any word(s) you like and find the perfect icon or picture to use.
You can export as a web page and send a URL to the client who can then tab through the different diagrams. It blows them away that you've built a web page for them when all you've really done is hit publish.
I work with new people, partners and clients regularly and I'm always putting them onto Lucid Chart. When they realize how easy it is to collaborate and share they fall in love with the product too.
The search feature to find new icons, images, etc. is amazing. Type any word(s) you like and find the perfect icon or picture to use.
You can export as a web page and send a URL to the client who can then tab through the different diagrams. It blows them away that you've built a web page for them when all you've really done is hit publish.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't really dislike anything although the most common complaint I get from others is when they've positioned the mouse incorrectly and get an unwanted results. Excessive caffeine can cause your hands to shake.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work predominantly in technology and business processes so a lot of swim lane usage and how data flows from one system to another.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's got a free trial so just try it. Do the tutorial and see the samples others have done. You won't be wasting your time.
My Number 1 Go To Tool for Project Development
What do you like best about the product?
Lucidchart is brain dead simple to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
There really isn't anything I don't like about the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lucidchart makes it easy to communicate complicated marketing campaign processes. These process documents also provide an excellent history of how something was done.
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