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OmniGraffle

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What is OmniGraffle?

OmniGraffle is a wireframing tool for Mac users.

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What is OmniGraffle?

OmniGraffle is a wireframing tool for Mac users.

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Generating a site map in one minute with OmniGraffle - Demo

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OmniGraffle is a versatile tool that users heavily rely on for a wide range of tasks. One key use case for the product is wireframing, roughing out, and documenting content models and site maps. This is particularly useful for the strategy team, as they can easily create workflow diagrams and produce detailed annotations that are difficult to convey via a prototype. Additionally, OmniGraffle addresses low visibility issues in web projects by allowing users to create flowcharts, behavioral flows, and site map trees.

The software serves as an excellent replacement for Visio, offering better visuals and flexibility in wireframing and design activities. Users utilize OmniGraffle to create process flow diagrams, business flow charts, and other diagrams required by their company or department. Moreover, it is used beyond traditional design purposes, with users leveraging the tool to structure texts such as lyrics, poetry, or novels to find the best flow and logic in their thematic elements.

OmniGraffle's flexible and large format medium makes it ideal for mapping out ideas and concepts that require content organization, such as messaging frameworks. Furthermore, it is a popular choice for technical documentation purposes where technical diagrams need to be created. The software also facilitates collaboration across teams by enabling the creation of workflow diagrams that can be easily shared with non-design stakeholders.

For website projects, OmniGraffle helps users chart out website and user flows through flow charts and information architecture. It plays a significant role during the discovery phase of understanding user needs and customer journey by visualizing user flows, basic journey maps, brainstorming sessions, and visual note-taking. Furthermore, designers rely on OmniGraffle to build wireframe sketches that are shared with clients during the initial project phase.

Overall, OmniGraffle offers a comprehensive set of features that cater to various industries and use cases. Its ability to address different visualization needs makes it a valuable tool for wireframing, diagramming, and content organization.

Users recommend the following:

  1. Test the software using the trial period before purchasing to determine if it meets your needs and if it is easy to use.

  2. Consider alternative tools for drag and drop features and pre-made high-fi widgets. Also, explore more powerful options for flowcharts and business logic charts.

  3. Seek answers on blogs and YouTube videos in addition to relying solely on the provided documentation and tutorials. Study the smaller hot keys and tricks in Omnigraffle for better productivity. Try other tools like Adobe Illustrator or Balsamiq Mockups depending on the type of work you do. Additionally, consider Keynote, InVision, or Foundation/HTML for a more efficient workflow.

Overall, users appreciate Omnigraffle's value for money and its capabilities in wireframing, data modeling, and building flow diagrams. However, they encourage potential users to thoroughly evaluate their specific needs before investing in any tool.

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We've been using OmniGraffle to create process flow diagrams to document software implementations across the organization. We always use the software to create any diagram required by the company or the department itself. It's effortless to use and has all the necessary options to create complete and understanding business flow charts and diagrams.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OmniGraffle is my company’s tool of choice for creating workflow diagrams across teams and with non-design stakeholders. While the design team uses other tools, such as Balsamiq and Sketch, to do design-specific work, OmniGraffle is what we use to work with other teams, such as Strategy, Instructional Design, and Research. We also use it for mapping out content models, envisioning and designing frameworks, creating technical diagramming, and mapping out site maps. We use OmniGraffle to get on the same page before we get deep into our product design workflows.
Jeff Eaton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We're a full strategy/design/development shop, and our team is heavily tilted towards Macs. Although the design team has shifted to production-focused tools like Sketch for most of their early stage deliverables, the Strategy team makes heavy use of Omnigraffle for wireframing, roughing out and documenting content models and site maps, etc. On the development site, most of our architects have settled on Omnigraffle for technical diagramming as well — it's not the 800lb Visio gorilla, but it does everything we need it to.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use OmniGraffle the same way that others use Micrfosoft Visio, primarily for technical diagrams for my documentation. In my particular case, I am the only person using it, and that is because I came into this position as a user of Apple products for years and continue to use it at home. This department uses all Windows notebooks for Windows server support. The bad news for me is that there isn't a version that runs on a PC, so if I'm working on a drawing in Visio at the office and want to take it home and work on it, I can import it into Visio, but complex arcs don't import cleanly due to its algorithms for computing sine and co-sine values during the import.
John Rougeux | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use OmniGraffle to map out ideas and concepts that require a flexible, large format medium for organizing content. For example, if I'm currently using OmniGraffle to map out a messaging framework for internal use. It helps me easily link ideas together and create hierarchies, which would be difficult using a presentation tool like PowerPoint or keynote. If you need a way of getting abstract ideas on paper and exploring relationships among them, OmniFocus is a great tool for that.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OmniGraffle is rapidly becoming the modeling tool of choice for the organisation; we are seeing broadening adoption of the product across the whole organisation.

We were looking for a Mac-compatible modeling tool - similar to Visio for the PC - and OmniGraffle was by far the best choice on the market.
Matt Railey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Omnigraffle for some basic early wire framing of applications and for creation of workflow diagrams. It's stencil libraries enable quick creation of diagrams and documents since you're not having to draw everything from scratch.
Kirk Brote | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OmniGraffle is used by the product experience design team to produce detailed annotations that are too difficult to convey via a prototype. Often the more subtle aspects of a UI, experience, or interface are difficult to convey to developers, OmniGraffle allows us to instruct them on the nuance of the design without overly complicating the prototypes.
Fred ALPI | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I mainly use OmniGraffle in order to structure texts when they are in work in progress status, from lyrics to poetry or novels. It helps me to structure my thoughts and ideas, and to find the best logic in the thematics used in the texts. I can keep references to the topics I intend to speak about, such as texts, images or links. By reorganizing them in different ways, Omnigraffle gives me a global vision which helps to find the best flow.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Omnigraffle for charting out website and user flows. This includes flow charts, information architecture and more. To my knowledge, it is only used by our department.

Omnigraffle helps us create a total picture of what a website project will look like, how many pages there will be, and how users will interact with it. We then use this to discuss with stakeholders for feedback and iterations.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OmniGraffle was one of tools that suggested by a department level. As a designer, we used Omnigraffle a lot particularly in the phase of discovering user needs and understanding user flow, and customer journey. I think it provides a very convenient way to create a flow chart and sitemap. Also I liked the feature of copying a diagram or any artifacts I made from Omnigraffle and pasting them as an image to any presentation tools. It was very convenient that I didn't have to worry about readjusting size or image resolution. Overall, it helps create a quick diagram and big landscape of our product and easily to share with team members.
Adeleye Lufadeju | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use OmniGraffle on a regular basis for flowcharts, behavioral flows, site map trees etc. This is being used in our digital department and it helps address some of the low visibility issue we have on some web projects as a whole.
Jeffrey Young | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Omnigraffle primarily used as a Visio replacement. It works well for flows and charts, as well as basic graphics. I have also used it for wireframing activities, but recently changed to using Axure RP or Sketch for wireframing and design activities as they have more flexibilities in those domains. Omnigraffle does offer much better visuals (as of 2014) than Visio.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OmniGraffle is being used by our organization to build wireframe sketches. These sketches are shared with our clients during the beginning phase of a project. This makes it fairly easy for us to update the wireframes sketches based on any edits the client may have. Once the wire frames are approved we proceed to build out the interactions and pass to the creative department so they can use the wireframes as a reference when they create the graphics for the product.
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