Lovely Charts is Now Open
I’ve been a fan of LovelyCharts.com for some time now. I got in on the private beta and found it to be really useful and even a little fun.
If you ever use flowcharts, org charts, wireframes, or similar diagrams to communicate your ideas, LovelyCharts makes it much less tedious to put those documents together. If, like me, you’ve ever used Illustrator, Fireworks, or (God help me) Quark to draw a diagram or flowchart, this is for you.
Of course there are powerful and perhaps even more flexible charting applications out there. But if you don’t use them often enough to justify their cost or learning curve, then this web-based tool is the answer.
A free account should do almost everything you need to create an occasional flowchart or diagram. You can save the result as an image file to use however you like. Premium accounts add extra features like version history and collaborative tools.
Sweet. I love flow charts, but my co-workers dislike them and just don’t get them. Maybe they will be a bit more receptive to them if I can make them a bit more “sexy” (at least that is the term LovelyCharts.com uses) than the ones I’m generating from OmniGraffle.
Speaking of flow charts, this is my all time favorite commentary on the subject:
http://xkcd.com/518/
Hi Brent,
thanks a lot for this gorgeous review, you definitely nailed one of Lovely Charts core drivers here: “a simple tool that just does the job”
… Happy to see the message is going through and people adhere to it!
Thanks a lot again, have a lovely day !
J.
Flowcharts are great! Always make me think of this comic http://xkcd.com/518/
Bwaha! Thanks for your comment, by the way ^^
Tora, Looks like you and @dmesserly think alike.
I’m a fan of flowcharts myself (and xkcd) but I’m often self-conscious about using them. In the simple example I posted as an image here, I calculated that it may have been 3% clearer than my prose description of the process.
I may not have taken advantage of the full level of sexiness afforded by LovelyCharts. Dawn, you’ll have to let me know how that works out.
Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo