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Amazing product planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
It's an amazing visualization tool, we're able to map out product plans and coordinate with engineering, product, and other internal teams and show them exactly what we're describing. It's also valuable to the building of documentation, system designs, and structures that are able to be clearly detailed. It's also a great collaboration tool, anyone that's invited to a project can work in real-time.
Integrations with sprint planning tools like Jira let us also connect certain Lucid Spark boards with tickets.
Integrations with sprint planning tools like Jira let us also connect certain Lucid Spark boards with tickets.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's got a little bit of a learning curve, but really once you learn all the features you're good to go. Perhaps suggestions within the site or directions for certain tools or even quick GIFs would assist in figuring out how things work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were lacking ways to collaborate and visualize both engineering and product-level requirements. We have issues with lack of documentation and this provides us with the ability to make clear mind maps that can be worked on by anyone that's invited and the board is updated in real-time.
We hope to be able to use this tool to construct workflows and implement processes that can be read and understood by anyone. Look for gaps in existing designs. By having a tool like this that will allow collaboration we should hopefully be able to invite more teams into certain discussions earlier on.
We hope to be able to use this tool to construct workflows and implement processes that can be read and understood by anyone. Look for gaps in existing designs. By having a tool like this that will allow collaboration we should hopefully be able to invite more teams into certain discussions earlier on.
Great tool for virtual team strategy, design, planning sessions
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to virtually plan, brainstorm, and design on the same screen.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not found any blockers so far. The tool is very useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently solving problems related to the company's strategic plans. The benefits of being able to virtually plan as a team, the ability to return to the charts for review and updating, and the icons and graphics available are all useful to my department (innovation).
Great tool with a variety of uses
What do you like best about the product?
Useful templates to help me get started on projects quickly. Highly customizable. Good team collaboration. I like that I can see when others are in the document and what they're doing. This has been really useful with working remotely.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it can be diffucult to find older documents.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mapping out user flows to inform UI/UX Design direction and requirements and ensure alignment with tech for technical requirements. We inlucde these flows as part of our design handover for on and offshore teams to reference.
LucidChart
What do you like best about the product?
Whiteboard for definitely as we all moved into the covid world online, it helps us a lot
What do you dislike about the product?
when you click for whiteboard/workflow, it asks you a stay for getting access, etc which sometimes annoying otherwise, it's good to go.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Whiteboard, program strategy work fame
Great product for wide audience
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate how this helps collaboration across our team. We have utilized this solution for strategic account account collaboration.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not intuitive and complex to learn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been able to increase collaboration across the organization. We can map accounts internally and get better visibility into other colleague's activities.
Decent Offering but Could Be Better
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to both comment and resolve comments the most. Additionally, gathering elements by tags, color, reaction, or object helps when sorting. I believe dot voting is a newer addition, but it's also beneficial and on par with competitors. It's affordable. Spark is easy to pick up, but if you do have trouble they also offer training for your team. One final thing I like is that it's straightforward to bring Lucidchart documents into your sparkboard, which makes staying on track with premade workflows very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Spark is currently lacking in diverse templates, making it harder to convince purchasing managers to invest in it for entire teams compared to other platforms. Spark also lacks integration which I believe they are working on, but they may integrate with your current software at present. Unfortunately, I think Spark initially released their product with too few features making it hard to make a case for picking them over their competitors who were already in the market for a similar price.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It made remote ideation sessions very easy to facilitate, which meant that team members could spend time where it matters most. Team members also felt that their ideas were both seen and heard, and the opportunity for team voting helped them feel that they weren't being dismissed out of hand. Lucidspark fostered increased trust in the direction we chose to move our products in at any given moment.
Nice experience
What do you like best about the product?
You have many options at hand. You can perform many daily tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price is somewhat high if you want the premium version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Daily tasks
A very interesting tool to brainstorm, collect ideas and work together creatively
What do you like best about the product?
Your creativity is the limit on what you can do. I have the impression that Lucidspark is improving its service continuously. When I used it the first time, my collaborators and I made a relationship matrix with tons of post-its and we had to align them by hand. Now you can sort and gather them efficiently, which is a great feature to save time. I also love that it is possible to work at the same time as your colleagues, on different parts of the document. This great for separate idea creation, afterwards you can go through the ideas one by one. Seeing the other's mouse cursors also help a lot.
As it is online, people can also work independently of their timezone on the mindmap. So not everyone has to work at the same time. That helps also to distribute tasks and let people finish their work by themselves. Lastly, already the free version of Lucidspark provide enough freedom to test the platform and you can find out, whether using Lucidspark adds value to your organization. It did in my case.
As it is online, people can also work independently of their timezone on the mindmap. So not everyone has to work at the same time. That helps also to distribute tasks and let people finish their work by themselves. Lastly, already the free version of Lucidspark provide enough freedom to test the platform and you can find out, whether using Lucidspark adds value to your organization. It did in my case.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am slightly colorblind and have issues with attributing the correct color to the different post-its. It would help a lot to either have tags next to the colors (that pop-up) to help selecting the right color. For fairness they have a kind of "eyedropper" like in Powerpoint that helps me to align the colors. I need to admit that I haven't mentioned that feedback to the Lucidpark team, so I cannot say how quickly Lucidpark implements such feedback in new updates.
I also want to mention that Lucidpark does not replace an in-person brainstorming session, you need to have a teleconference at the same time to communicate with your team, without that it can become quite a chaos.
I also want to mention that Lucidpark does not replace an in-person brainstorming session, you need to have a teleconference at the same time to communicate with your team, without that it can become quite a chaos.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am mainly writing story arcs and characterizations of different actors with my team. I find Lucidpark beneficial that you can work on the same document at the same time that is a colossal mind map. If we would use other options like a google-doc, we would be limited to writing & maybe some shapes and stuff. In contrast, Lucidspark provides a plattform for collaboration with other people and creating visually exciting documents that spark new ideas.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend trying out the free version first. It requires a couple of sessions to learn how to use all the functionalities fully, but I think it is possible to realize quickly how helpful the platform is for your task. During home office and lock-down times, I believe Lucidpark is a great tool!
Additionally, if your team works on large idea mind maps, having these digital and not in paper form can provide a clutter-free work environment.
Additionally, if your team works on large idea mind maps, having these digital and not in paper form can provide a clutter-free work environment.
Great for project management goals
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to customize annual and quarterly goal settings
What do you dislike about the product?
Frequent emails come into inbox after sign up. No technical support available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Transitioned manual goal-setting system to online, for easy access across devices during travel
Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Easy and simple to use UI & navigation to create flows
What do you dislike about the product?
Didn't find any issues as of now. Everything looks fine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To create E2E architecture diagrams and user flows
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