Lucidchart Diagrams for Excel

Easy to make org charts good templates integrates well

Wish there were ways to collaborate with teammates for free without an additional license

Visual org chart, exporting -- looking nice.

Pretty easy to set up process flows and have my team make edits simultaneously to the same breakout board while in brain-storming sessions.

At first the breakout boards section is confusing to me on how to navigate to different ones from the home screen. Also, we accidentally set up two workspaces, and I wanted to copy a breakout board from one workspace into the other, but there was not a simple way to do that. Instead I had to copy everything, then paste into a new board in the desired workspace. That worked out just fine, but would've been cool to import a given breakout board from one workspace to another.

Illustrate high-level architecture for a client's DevOps team. The ability to create easy-to-read diagrams with appropriate colors and connecting dependencies, and to be able to export into a pdf and share with the client led us to utilize Lucid.

vast library of shape and highly collaborative and user friendly

Import and export existing visualisations from other platforms e.g. draw.io or visio will helpful

Collaborating and brainstorming to find better designs and requirements

I love Lucidchart’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface and extensive template library, which make creating professional flowcharts and diagrams quick and easy, while its real-time collaboration feature enhances teamwork across projects.

While Lucidchart is generally user-friendly, the free version has limited features and export options, which can feel restrictive for complex projects, and the pricing for premium plans can be a bit steep for small teams or individual users

Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite solves the problem of unclear communication and disorganized workflows by providing an intuitive platform for creating clear, professional diagrams and facilitating real-time team collaboration. This benefits me by streamlining project planning, improving team alignment on complex processes, and saving time with easily customizable templates and seamless integrations with tools like Google Drive and Slack.

I like how the collaboration works, and I can even see my coworkers mouse moving around the screen. It's also very customizable, and I appreciate having icons for AWS and other cloud provider specific resources. I really enjoy moving around the chart when I have a mouse, through zooming in and out. I don't enjoy how the navigation/moving around the chart works with a touchpad, though.

Sometimes the boxes are slightly off, or are different sizes and then when you drag an arrow from one box to another, it isn't exactly straight. What I wish is that you could select two boxes and say "line them up" so that they just matched each other and the line between them didn't have any extra dips or turns in it.

It solves the issue of not understanding how cloud resources are connected. The diagrams work great to show the infrastructure in the cloud. It's also good for remote work and not being able to see the same whiteboard together.

Being able to create visual illustrations of process flows to help teams gain a better understanding of the overall process & workflows.

I don't use it enough to dislike any features

process workflows

The fact that they have plenty of templates available. They have short videos to explain the basic functions.

I didn't find any downsize so far, Lucid is great to use

Lucid helps mapping plenty of tasks coming from different departments to be summarize in one visual.

The options to collaborate with a team and the large number of templates and Shapes. The import options are helpful as well and save time. It is very easy to create visuals and illustrations any time I have a customer call and find visuals to be a better way to send a message and make a point. The integration with Gmail is also great and useful instead of exporting every time.

The import options are very helpful, but sometime I want to create many items of the same shape and just paste the names and the only option is for sticky notes. Additionally, the templates sometimes are very specific, but I need to make to many changes to use them the way I want

Creating visuals for documentations and customers, as it helps get customers on the same page and show value and process much faster, as well when describing architecture in documentation

I use Lucid for various tasks in my work, including the creation of flowcharts, which are especially useful for analyzing how our databases interact with each other and for developing improvement proposals related to the backend. In addition, we use templates to run certain agile ceremonies, such as retrospectives or planning sessions, by using the sticky note and brainstorming features. In some cases, we also use it for simple prototyping to visualize what our product might look like. I like the ease of use and the fact that I can be quick re-using existing templates These are the three features I like the most. Of the three, my favorite is the agile ceremony functionality, because I am a product manager.

I do not have a real complaint about Lucid itself, except for the fact that, as a product manager, I am sometimes required to use different tools. So, when Lucid was introduced, I experienced a short period of adaptability cost. However, this was quickly absorbed thanks to the materials and training provided by the Lucid team.

works really well when working with remote teams, it is easy to access, follow and modify

That you have a knowledge base and are fairly intuitive tools.

It takes a hot minute to go from products like Miro and Canva to orient yourself.

It's a tool the company uses and I was using an alternitive solution but on a free version. I now have a paid Lucid accounts to moving towards all the powerful deatures available to me.