OmniGraffle Erfahrungen

A flawed masterpiece

Kommentare: My overall experience with OmniGraffle has been excellent. It is incredibly easy to create beautiful diagrams with the app, and much easier than traditional vector drawing apps. It bridges the gap between vector drawing apps and desktop publishing software, making it a great choice for those who need to create diagrams for a variety of purposes. Diagramming is a primary use for me, so it's worth spending money on a tool that I can depend upon. I do not regret my decision to choose OmniGraffle, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a powerful and easy to use diagramming tool.

Vorteile:

OmniGraffle is an amazing tool for creating great looking diagrams with ease. It has great control over typography, and object-oriented diagramming is incredibly powerful for creating different versions of the same diagram for different situations. It also has good import and export options, and is great for working across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Plus, the support from OmniGroup is top notch.

Nachteile:

OmniGraffle is a powerful diagramming tool, but it has some notable shortcomings for advanced workflows. It does not support live data sources, and its charting capabilities are quite weak. Additionally, it lacks the ability to import and export hierarchical or relational data structures, which can be a major limitation for sophisticated information work.

A great app for my diagrams

Kommentare: It’s been a pleasure to use. It full of features with a great UI.

Vorteile:

It was easy to use from the first time I used it. There were plenty of options to create amazing diagrams.

Nachteile:

I couldn’t find anything negative about my experience with the app.

Easy To Use After Learning Curve

Vorteile:

I use OmniGraffle Pro on my Mac desktop for engineering design documentation. The tool is generally easy to use after learning a few key combinations for editing. It is easy to center and line up objects using the very smart alignment tools. The default shapes are nice and clean and objects with curves render smoothly. There is a lot of functionality that might not be immediately obvious until you start using the tool.

Nachteile:

I have difficulty manipulating the connection lines. The key combinations to edit a line position are not immediately obvious and I had to use outside resources to figure it out.

Unleashing Creativity in Visual Design and Diagramming

Kommentare: Good

Vorteile:

Users often commend OmniGraffle for its user-friendly interface. The intuitive design makes it easy for both beginners and experienced users to create professional-looking diagrams and visual designs.

Nachteile:

While many users praise the intuitive interface, there is still a learning curve, especially for individuals who are new to diagramming or graphic design software. Some users might find it takes time to become proficient in using all the features effectively.

Serves my wireframing needs well.

Vorteile:

Using Omnigraffle for my projects makes me work faster.I like the ease at which I am able to tweak my wireframes ,flows and maps on this program.I am provided with loads of templates to aid the quality of my work and draw inspiration from. It is cross platform and this fits well with the nature of my job,which almost forbids me being behind my desk regularly .With Omnigraffle ,I stay in control of my projects even while on the move and I am able to quickly make amendment to my wireframes ,if there is a need to.

Nachteile:

It is obviously far from the most intuitive diagramming tool I have used and takes far too much time to learn for new users.

The swiss army knife

Kommentare: It makes it ridiculously easy for me to sketch out brainstorming ideas and send them to the team. And they look professional.

Vorteile:

Essentially if you want to create a diagram, you can make it in OmniGraffle. It has stencils for brainstorming, UML, AWS diagrams, site mapping, almost any kind of diagram and that is amazing. You could easily just have one piece of software.

Nachteile:

It can do too much. It can do brainstorming, UML diagrams, app mockups, vector drawing... and it's not the best tool at many of those things. You just have to know what you can do quickly.

Powerful Architecture Diagram Tool

Kommentare: Use OmniGraffle Pro for quick diagrams to review with the engineering team, as well as more structured diagrams for presenting concepts to stakeholders.

Vorteile:

Very powerful tool for UML and other diagram conventions. Ability to map out system interactions and present in a clear format. Export to image format or save as a graffle file for future editing and collaboration.

Nachteile:

Feature-rich interface can appear daunting for beginners and this creates a steep, but short, learning curve.

Multipurpose diagramming and design software

Vorteile:

I have been an omnigraffle user for around 7 years now. I have used it to layout tiles for tiling floors and backsplashes, laying out designs for audio visual systems for signal flow and also have use it for designing patterns used to cut out stage design pieces on a CNC router. Line routing is very helpful for making signal flow diagrams. An extensive stencil library covering a variety of industries is a huge benefit making this software useful for many different purposes. Multiple export options of your document is also a huge plus.

Nachteile:

It has a little bit of a learning curve in the beginning but if you have any previous experience with other design software it is not too difficult to learn Omnigraffle.

Not an easy transition from the competing product

Kommentare: I have not been impressed. Costly, doesn't allow for an easy transition from Visio. Not user friendly in my opinion.

Vorteile:

It has the features of Visio (supposedly)

Nachteile:

It is a very hard transition from Visio, it does not work the same way.

Good system for drawing on the Mac

Vorteile:

Easy to draw quick diagrams on the Mac - flowcharts too.

Nachteile:

Little hard to figure this out and learn exactly how the system worked - reminds me of Photoshop in that way.

The most popular diagram tool for lots of diagrams and wireframes

Kommentare: I think this is the most advanced tool for creating diagrams and wireframes. It is fully customizable and provide collaboration tools.

Vorteile:

I use this tool to create stunning diagrams. I love the customization and options to create lots of various versions of diagrams. Tool also offer options to create wireframes. The app contains some kind of store for elements where you can download them and expand your playground.

Nachteile:

The app is like OmniPlan a bit difficult. It will be better to provide some intro to get things to know better. I also experience some small problems with dragging.

Excellent Alternative to Visio for Mac Users

Kommentare: My go-to tool for non-trivial wireframe, laster-cut, IT architectural diagrams. This is a powerful feature rich tool and its import / export capabilities allow me to exchange work with Visio users.

Vorteile:

Professional graphics with many import / export options. Outstanding for making flow charts, org charts and architectural diagrams for IT. Also a great tool for designing laser cut templates for on-line services as the object oriented approach is dimensionally correct and the wide format options improves chances you will meet the services' file format requirements.

Nachteile:

Some of the features take a while to master. This is not a tool that you will pick up quickly or that you would use to create a drawing for a simple business presentation.

omni-graffle application

Vorteile:

It is a good software and I use from my desktop computer and the iPad tablet too without any data loss or fonts.

Nachteile:

software update took time, especially when IOS device get updated and becomes not compatible.

Great alternative to Visio for the Mac

Vorteile:

I like pretty much everything about this software. It is easy to create flows and drawings for my projects. There are numerous stencils available online for download which improve my productivity.

Nachteile:

I wish I could export directly to native Visio format instead of Visio XML for sharing files with clients.

Omnigraffle is Visio for Mac

Kommentare: I love omnigraffle helps me wireframe or produce flow documents of any process or project I am working on.

Vorteile:

Oh my so many things you can do with this layers check, a good library of stencils, check solid community of users check many more checks to count

Nachteile:

The only thing I would say on the downside of things is there are so many ways to use this product and finding the more advanced features will take a lot of mastery of use of the product.

OmniGraffle is indispensable for creating publication-quality graphics

Kommentare: Create publication-quality graphics
Illustrate complex systems

Vorteile:

Draw on a fixed size canvas, what you see is what you get on the print -- very helpful for IEEE/ACM papers Magnets and grid that connect and align objects So many features and shortcut keys that I am still discovering, but all features are to maximize productivity

Nachteile:

Learning curve is steep. Documentation is still very long. Should have a shorter getting started documents that introduce all key concepts of OmniGraffle

Used to be Great

Kommentare: I used it exclusively for over a decade. What used to be a great product at a fair price, with great support, has deteriorated badly. Loss of features; massive price; no support. Thus I am switching to an alternative vector drawing tool.

Vorteile:

Ease of use, clean vector graphics, good set of exports

Nachteile:

1) No backward compatibility: features removed with each release  2) Each new release introduces a whole set of bugs (including in the previous feature set). 3) Support used to be great. 4) Price is through the roof.

Best UX Software outthere

Kommentare: I have had a great experience with this software it's definitely my go-to.

Vorteile:

This software's amazing. Very user-friendly and most importantly is that it maintains the UX Designer focus on the wireframe. Other software is very heavily on the design that sometimes you might end up losing focus.

Nachteile:

Better curation for the stencils that are included in the Omnigraffle website. There are quite some that are useless.

Solid Layout tool, Very nice UI

Kommentare: It's a solid tool, and if you need a native flowchart/layout app to help with flows, this is the one. However, it's not as functional or collaborative as other tools out there.

Vorteile:

The UI is familiar to those familiar with Sketch and other Design-based software. The Ui is clean and gives you a lot to work with. Nice for laying out flows and for VERY simple wireframes.

Nachteile:

Feels somewhere inbetween a vector-based design tool and a flowchart/layout tool. It does both good, but neither great. Also, it's not as collaborative as other tools out there. The rage right now is real-time collaboration. Omnigraffle requires you to attach and share files.

I regularly use OmniGraffle for creating process flow charts and influence diagrams.

Kommentare: Easily clarify complex thought processes.

Vorteile:

OmniGraffle is very easy to use. It allows a user to create lucid charts that capture the essence of the logic of a process. I particularly like the fact that arcs drawn from one object to another are drawn such that they virtually pass through the center of an object so that arrowheads don't pile up on each other. One of the best features of OmniGraffle is that it allows a user to create layers that can be turned off and on to reveal successive layers when talking through the build-up of a process map.

Nachteile:

OmniGraffle is packed with so many features that it can be difficult sometimes to figure out how to use those features in a chart as the supporting documentation is a little thin.

Flexible, powerful, somewhat quirky OS X native Visio alternative

Kommentare: OmniGraffle is marketed largely as an OS X native alternative to Visio, but it shines as a separate product in its own right, and a perfect accompaniment to Adobe CS for technical drawing. It's fine for all those Visio-ish things, org charts and information maps and whatever else, but I mostly use it for circuit diagrams and other 2-D technical drawings, and it works very well for these purposes.

Vorteile:

Flexible units, canvas sizes, pen colors, objects, magnet positions, routing algorithms, etc.; it does pretty much anything you'd expect, and then some. The ability to specify double lines with outline and gap color is especially useful for my purposes: automotive wiring diagrams where wires often have a main color and one or two tracer colors. I also use OmniGraffle for diagramming fluid flow in fuel and cooling systems. It's great for all such symbolic diagramming.

Nachteile:

Object libraries are a bit wanting, as are the tools for drawing custom objects (I prefer to draw custom objects in Illustrator, and import them). But that's about it.

Great tool for Macs!

Vorteile:

The design capabilities of OmniGraffle Pro are excellent. Multiple layers for objects, plenty of formatting options for text and graphic objects, and easy to use and create templates, are all hallmarks of this application. It's pretty easy to build a library of art that can be re-used, and it's relatively simple to share that library across multiple users. There are also a number of already-made libraries of graphic items that can be downloaded and used. I use this tool regularly for flow charting and process mapping for professional use, as well as some design work for personal use.

Nachteile:

It would be nice to see some connectivity features added, perhaps something like a "web part" that could return a graph from Google Charts or data from another API.

One of the Best Apps to create Diagrams, flowcharts, org charts, and layouts

Vorteile:

The ease of use of this app due to the intuitiveness is the best feature. It's very easy to convert your thoughts to a presentable form/diagram easily.

Nachteile:

Actually nothing. May be there are a lot of features that I do not use currently. But havent found anythign that I dislike yet.

Great tool to quickly create content maps, site maps and more

Vorteile:

The quick drag and drop shapes make creating site maps, user flows, content maps, user flows, etc. The familiarity of the shapes, line tools, arrows, etc. can make quick work of projects that would take much longer in a program such as Illustrator.

Nachteile:

If more sharing with team features and collaborative notes were added, it would definitely add even more to the app. It's great for building site maps quickly!

Versatile and easy, provides all your diagram-making needs

Vorteile:

OmniGraffle Pro is a diagram making software that enables you to create different types of diagrams, graphs or model. Possibilities for diagram making are endless. There are many graph needed for our company's clients' websites, which I made through OmniGraffle Pro. The layouts are almost limitless with lots of different graphs, diagrams, and models which are highly modifiable depending on my own measurements.

Nachteile:

The unavailability in different operating system is a downside especially that my workplace desktop operated on windows.