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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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Whimsical is a popular tool among UX designers for presenting user flows and information hierarchy to team members and clients. Users have …
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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.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 5.7.

The most common users of Whimsical are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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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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.
Whimsical excels in early stage projects when details are not defined and exploration needs to be encouraged. It may not be the right tool for final output as the fidelity is basic and the ability to output artifacts is limited. Ideally it is used to refine and scope ideas allowing for another more refined tool to take over.
  • Identifying points of risk.
  • Departmental communication.
  • Time to kickoff.
Whimsical nails early stage project exploration. Whether it’s mapping, wire-framing, or simply whiteboard collaboration, Whimsical provide a flexible toolset that puts you and your team in the correct mindset to explore ideas without feeling committed to a specific direction. Giant projects do not have much impact on performance and copy/paste in between projects works without issue.
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