Whimsical
Whimsical
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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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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.
What is Whimsical's best feature?
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 6.8.
Who uses Whimsical?
The most common users of Whimsical are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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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