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“At first, the subscription cost seemed expensive, but when you consider Lucidchart’s collaboration tools amongst everything else it offers, it’s actually quite reasonable.”

“We originally found Lucidchart while we were looking for something to design org charts and flowcharts within Confluence since we use our Confluence wiki to collaborate on all documentation. When we found a Lucidchart plugin, we looked at it and thought, ‘This could really work for us.’ What sold Lucidchart was its cost, collaboration mechanisms, and integration with Confluence and Jira.”

““Over the last year, I have heard comments such as ‘That extra detailed diagram actually helped me do XYZ.’ Based on this feedback and my own experience, I know we are benefiting from Lucidchart. It has become more mission critical with the amount of network diagrams we build and the growing number of clients we support.””

““We have so many hands in the pot supporting and deploying, and I want to make sure that when someone runs into that weird issue, they can go to a central place, look at this somewhat simple diagram, and say, ‘Oh, now I understand why this is done this way. Now I understand how I need to troubleshoot .’””

““I asked the customer to tell me how the fiber runs from point A to B, and we had a visual representation and could pull everything together over a live call. That actually helped a ton because we didn’t have to go out there and get an explanation or rely on pen and paper,””

““If anybody is looking at a diagram and wants to know more about a specific device, they can click on that link from Lucidchart, and it directs them straight to the asset documentation with all the detail they need.””

“I think for me the power was finding two very different things —the book just a couple of days before and the tool which enabled me to put that book into practice. I literally wasn't even aware of the meeting until the afternoon before, and I pulled this all together to make it happen. It was one of those magic moments where everything fell in place.”

“Having Lucidspark was really beneficial for the meeting because it actually raised a lot of questions which people hadn't necessarily thought of, kept the meeting on track, and kept participants engaged.”

“Immediately after using Lucidspark for the first time, I really liked it. Right now, everyone is on Microsoft Teams or Zoom, and you get loads of people all talking without something visual to focus on. A PowerPoint presentation doesn’t work. But something like Lucidspark is really good for a team session so you can get people focused on ideas and actually generate an output.”

“Concept maps in Lucidchart help students learn more than just the definition of a term. It encourages them to look for connections. Instead of memorizing isolated terms that become islands unto themselves, they can group the information and organize class content. This makes the content a lot more meaningful as students do the legwork to piece individual concepts together.”

“Students would lose depth if they weren't using Lucidchart. I have students who like to hand-draw their concept maps, but they don't get the same depth because hand-drawn maps are more time consuming, and the types of information they can easily include is more limited.”

““It’s the best way I know to map a global view of something. The fact that I can do that asynchronously and remotely for my company is invaluable.””

““Any tool that lets you crank out ideas fast and convey meaning fast… that’s obviously a win.””

““It’s better for us to be working at a fidelity that matches the problem that we’re trying to solve.””

““Maintaining these diagrams helps people come up to speed with the way the system works.””

“It's very much about guidance and providing a light bulb moment for whoever's reading it to say, ‘yep, this makes sense.’ It's very simple. And then they can dive into the details and actually implement it. It's a consulting tool basically.”

“Lucidchart is really a support mechanism in a way to help me think about a problem because I can't fit everything in my head at once. So it allows me to visualize that,”

“It's a lot easier to refactor a diagram than it is to actually go down a path in code and then have to back up and then redirect ourselves to the right path. A diagram forces you to pause and think, ‘how does this component work with this other component and is this going to work?’”

“Lucidchart provided a way to quickly and cleanly make sense of a codebase without actually having to go through and draw current architecture and design on paper or a whiteboard. You can go back and edit it and update it later.”

“If there's one gripe that I will always make about almost every software solution that I'm ever forced to work with, it’s a lot of them will feel ‘producty.’ And by producty, I mean you are given a toy and told to play with a toy in certain ways. Versus giving a tool to someone technical who is trying to get work done and not limiting how they use it—that is extremely valuable to an engineer. Lucidchart doesn’t limit me, and I can use the platform at my disposal.”

“Having a language that we can use to speak between the two halves of the team that isn't too specific to either one helps us bridge that gap and helps us design efficient code in a platform-independent manner,”

“When you write a piece of code, it's inherently linear. It's all lines of text that go straight down from the top to the bottom. There are no connections or associations between the two from a visual standpoint. With a diagram, I get a high-level overview of all the different moving pieces and how they interact.”

“Of critical importance to me is the longevity of solutions, which means we need sufficient material and knowledge being managed and captured inside of Lucidchart. As a result, it doesn't disappear as we have staff come in and move out.”

“Not to pull a cliché, but I guess a picture's worth a thousand words. We have technical team members who hate reading documents. A good visual can help someone understand what’s in scope within 30 seconds of glancing at it, which expedites the next steps of how we create a solution. If a diagram wasn't available, it would probably take us 10 times longer.”

“The big advantage for me is not having a tool tied down to a specific operating system. I can work across my Mac, or my Linux laptop, or Windows, and that accessibility is fantastic. You don't need to have something installed on your machine just to get to your documents.”