My go-to mind mapping tool
The feature I use from Whimsical is the mind mapping mode. I've tried many other mind mapping tools (e.g. ClickUp) in the past including …
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What is Whimsical?
Whimsical is a visual workspace application from the company of the same name in Denver, allowing users to create collaborative wireframes, mindmaps, flowcharts, and sticky notes.
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Whimsical is a visual workspace application from the company of the same name in Denver, allowing users to create collaborative wireframes, mindmaps, flowcharts, and sticky notes.
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Whimsical is a popular tool among UX designers for presenting user flows and information hierarchy to team members and clients. Users have found Whimsical to be useful for mapping out workflows and providing clear explanations and references for future team members. It offers quick and efficient user flow mapping, sitemapping, and wireframing for web development clients. Many users praise Whimsical for its quick and easy sketching and thought mapping capabilities, surpassing hand sketching in terms of speed. It also enables easy collaboration for remote teams, making it a preferred choice for workflow tracking and mind-mapping exercises. Whimsical simplifies the creative thought process by providing a single source of truth, making it ideal for brainstorming and defining a definitive direction during staff meetings. The tool is widely used by various departments including Product, Product Design, and Brand Marketing for live whiteboard collaboration, mind mapping user journeys, wireframing, and other early-stage projects. Additionally, Whimsical has replaced similar tools like Balsamic, InVision's Freehand, and Draw.io by offering the same abilities in one application, allowing for freeform collaboration on complex projects. Users appreciate how easy it is to get started with Whimsical and its well-designed interface that facilitates cross-functional collaboration. It is flexible enough to be used by different teams at various stages of digital projects, including project planning, definitions, and the creative process. Lastly, Whimsical is valuable for lead management process visualization as it helps Sales and Marketing teams demystify how leads move through the system and facilitates discussions on lead flow, volume, and routing logic.
Based on user feedback, the following recommendations have been commonly shared:
- Some users suggest trying out Figma for wireframing instead.
- It is recommended to explore the free version of the tool before subscribing.
- Starting with a new workflow is suggested as a way to understand the ease of use of the tool.
These recommendations provide alternative options, emphasize trying out the free version first, and suggest starting with a specific workflow to experience the tool's usability.
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December 28, 2023
My go-to mind mapping tool
The feature I use from Whimsical is the mind mapping mode. I've tried many other mind mapping tools (e.g. ClickUp) in the past including desktop apps like Freemind, but in terms of cloud-based mind mapping tools, their mind-mapping tool is the best one or the one I prefer using the most.
I use mind mapping to work out product development, doing brain dumps to organize thoughts and ideas.
I use mind mapping to work out product development, doing brain dumps to organize thoughts and ideas.
- Mind maps
- Generous usage on free plan
- Very intuitive
- Getting out of a selected view is not quite as intuitive.
September 15, 2021
Whimsical saves time and confusion by visualizing complicated processes
We use whimscial to visualize a lead management process diagram for internal teams. This is primarily used by Sales and Marketing and helps demystify how leads move through the system. It helps facilitate conversations around lead flow, volume, and routing logic.
- Visualize process flows
- Allow for comments and feedback
- Enable collaboration in designing diagrams
- Inserting links is not intuitive or user friendly
- Editing diagrams can get frustrating and tedious
July 14, 2021
Amazing and versatile product
We are using Whimsical for a variety of things in our marketing department - student flow on landing pages/campaign advertising, website and landing page mockups, group meetings/brainstorming... there's so much you can do. It simplifies our creative thought process by having one source of truth. We use it during staff meetings to brainstorm and have a definitive direction to execute.
- Simple to use
- Tons of uses
- Can be customized with themeing
- Can organize all your boards pretty much however you want
- Kind of want to see some of the functionality of other similar apps like Miro but the app is great at what it does
- Folder structure takes a little time to get used to
- Nitpicking here but not a big fan of the default font
Whimsical is being used by the entire organization and, as it's very flexible, it can be used for different teams on many stages of our digital projects. So we can use it on project planning, definitions, creative process, and even before developing our CMS as it makes the content structure planning more seamless.
- Project sharing
- Collaboration between workmates
- Easy to use
- Mobile support is non existant
- Native app for mobile
- Performance on older hardware is not so good
May 03, 2021
Less swirl / more collaboration
We use Whimsical to quickly and effectively workflow new processes, visualize complicated systems, and collaborate on new ideas. We love how easy it is to get started and the way the product is designed allows for really nice cross-functional collaboration.
- Process mapping
- Workflow visualization
- Collaboration
- It can be a little frustrating trying to line things up exactly right but that's probably more user error than anything
April 15, 2021
Collaboration and ideation done right
Whimsical is used by the Product, Product Design, and Brand Marketing departments. It used used for live whiteboard collaboration, mind mapping user journeys, wire framing, and other collaborative—early stage—projects. It’s has replaced our reliance on similar tools like Balsamic, InVision’s Freehand, draw.io, and other such tools by offering the same abilities. Not only are these tools in one application, but they are available concurrently allowing for free form collaboration and more complete and complicated projects.
- White-boarding.
- Mind mapping.
- Journey mapping.
- Retros.
- Technical mapping.
- User flows.
- Wire framing.
- Ideation sessions.
- Export.
- Sharing with stakeholders.
- Temporary collaboration permissions.
November 09, 2020
Whimsical delivers for UX professionals.
I use Whimsical as a UX designer to present user flows and information hierarchy to my team members inside of the organization and to clients when pitching ideas.
- Very learnable and memorable.
- Easy to present.
- Ability to comment.
- Ability to share.
- Simple interface.
- Customization of colors would be nice.
- Adding chains can be finicky.
- Moving boxes around is clunky - interferes with connections.
March 19, 2020
An amazing playground for ideas
I've used whimsical for a multitude of projects, however, my favorite to date was mapping out the workflow for our new onboarding system. I was able to present my team with a clear explanation and reason behind each step as well as provide a reference for future team members. We often use Whimsical as a workflow tracker and mind-mapping exercise.
- Mindmapping.
- Workflow.
- Business/department structure building.
- Basic wireframe builds.
- The ability to share is a bit lacking (you can only share the link if the document is public).
- Would be great if we had the ability to make the notes smaller.
March 19, 2020
Whimsical is Wonderful
We use Whimsical for quick and efficient user flow mapping, sitemapping, and wireframing for our web development clients. It's an amazing tool that makes sketching and thought mapping quick and easy. It's actually quicker than hand sketching, and it's superior in that it allows easy collaboration for our remote team.
- Simple low fidelity wireframing
- Site mapping
- User flow mapping
- Limited design capabilities for more detailed wireframing