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In “one Page creative Thinking” this book, the author quite clearly expressed that “there is no doubt that all the problems in the world can be solved by drawing”! Diagrams not only help you think clearly, they also help others understand your ideas more easily than words do.

One, foreword

One of the basic tasks of an IT project leader or architect, or even a regular software developer, is to create an application diagram. It could be application flow, infrastructure diagrams, software design, and so on.

We are familiar with professional drawing tools, such as Microsoft’s Visio, which is probably the first professional drawing tool we have ever encountered. However, after all, it is not convenient to use because you have to install and configure it on the local computer or even pay for it. Therefore, online discourse tools emerge as The Times require.

As software design developers, it would be great if we could create a beautiful professional software or infrastructure diagram in just a few minutes. Today’s article takes you through several popular online drawing tools.

Second, the Draw IO

I strongly recommend a free tool called draw.io to help us create flowcharts or any diagrams with a lot of shapes and properly visualize the infrastructure we want to represent. Another powerful feature is that it provides a rich set of templates that we can use to better express our ideas.

It supports a variety of storage methods such as cloud local

Create a deployment diagram using a template

All in all, free, rich template support, high degree of freedom, such online drawing software not sweet? However, it does have disadvantages, such as sharing, multi-person collaboration, mind mapping is not supported, depending on the usage scenario.

Second, the Process On

This tool, Process on, is a professional and powerful drawing tool, supporting real-time online collaboration of many people, can be used for prototype diagram, UML, BPMN, network topology diagram and other graphics drawing.

It also offers rich templates, a more user-friendly drawing experience, and an active community, template sharing, team mode, and more.

But it’s not entirely free, and the free experience is limited by a relatively small number of file stores, limited graph export formats, limited number of collaborators, simple mind mapping capabilities, and so on.

The following tools for creating architecture diagrams online include:

  • Terrastruct
  • gliffy
  • Edraw Max
  • Cacoo
  • Lucidchart
  • Creately
  • Coggle
  • Mindmeister
  • yED

Which one do you use, my friend? Comment on your usual tool, the best online drawing tool you think!

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