Lucidspark Reviews

Currently, we are using Lucidspark to design and export database structures. We mostly use it just for that, however, we were using other software for doing mind maps, and we're starting to introduce the use of Lucidspark also for this purpose. We were also using another software for designing infrastructure, the architecture of software, and infrastructure in deployments. We have recently started moving into Lucidspark for that as well.

Last week we had to design and deploy a database really fast. It was for a customer of ours. The thing was that it being July in Italy, a lot of our employees were on holiday. We were on a strict term and therefore we had to gather around our war room to design and implement our database structure. Being able to have an export from working all together on the same document at the same time for the structure was really helpful. We could not only have discussions in real-time and have one point of entry. We could also have multiple points of entry and multiple discussions going on at the same time on the same structure. That was one of the pluses.

Being able to represent the whole database in a really easy-to-use and fast-moving application, having the possibility to export that same database into real code, being able to pass that real code in real-time, really flawlessly, with a couple of clicks, really cut down the amount of time that it usually takes from the designing of our database to putting it into our database engine and being able to test it. The product really cut down our times by quite a bit, and that was a huge improvement in our pipeline.

We design the database and then we have to physically write the structure of each and every table. We still have to make some modifications to the code itself for some specifics, however, I would say that the amount of the time that we use to actually write the code for the SQL has been cut down by 80 to 85%. It's a huge improvement. That's why we stepped up our game from the free version to the paid version. The benefits are enormous.

The ease of use is great. It's far more fluent in the process. Using the software itself is actually a breeze. It works flawlessly. It has no hiccups. 

Lucidspark is really fast, even on relatively low-powered computers. It simply needs a good internet connection. It's also really smooth to use. We tried it on big projects and we put a lot of data into our schemas and it still works flawlessly. Zooming in, zooming out, there's no problem. 

Presentations come out really good. 

The fact that you can have multiple users working at the same time is a really big plus. The fact that we can all collaborate in real-time is a very useful aspect.

We can introduce frameworks inside the application and it exports it in a perfect way. The fact that we can export the database code directly into SQL, for example, is also a really big plus.

The interface and intuitiveness are actually really good. It's really pleasant to use. It feels fresh and new. Our UX department said that it's actually really competitive with what is out there, and probably a step further, meaning that it's actually really good in comparison to other options. It's easy to use, and it's good to look at. It feels natural, as it should. There has been really great work put into the design.

We've tried the virtual whiteboard for brainstorming high-level ideas and concepts, however, not for too much. If I recall, we did two sprints with that. It looked really interesting and it looked like an opportunity to expand into something that we already did, given the fact that we became remote for a lot of our tasks. 

For whiteboards, you can assign each user a certain color for their cursor, sticky note, et cetera (although not for the whiteboard). This is during database planning. We could actually see who was handling which part. That was a really nice part of being able to work all at the same time. We could recognize who was doing what and take into account that we might have different timetables. With this feature, we know who made which change. That was actually useful.

Having an infinite whiteboard has its pros. We all can develop something in our small corner while everybody's working on the same thing, and then we can just copy and paste and stick together whatever we've been working on. You can get visibility on an entire project. This isn't the case with a physical whiteboard, where someone presents infinite space, and someone else's work is on the back of the board, for example. 

During specific scenarios, we can prioritize ideas. Being able to have a whiteboard actually helps us with prioritizing which tasks we can work on. We use an agile methodology, and therefore we can have voting systems on ideas which helps us in our meetings. We can decide which goes into sprint planning first. 

Lucidspark may have features to tag and automatically group ideas to help organize and synthesize ideas after a brainstorming session, however, I don't think we actually have been into that space at this point. It is something that we want to use in connection with our Confluence and Jira activities so that we can actually prioritize, make sprints, decide the sprints inside that, and then have them organized into Confluence as documentation and in Jira as tasks themselves, or actual sprint stories, et cetera. I've seen from the documentation that this is something that is possible, however, we haven't tested it yet.

One thing that I actually found difficult to do was to introduce video calls. Managing calls and the whiteboards and being all remote is difficult. Apart from that, it works pretty well.

Sometimes the whiteboard can be distracting if someone is presenting. For example, if one person is building and wants to have the attention of others, it can become a bit hard to focus the sharing only on that specific part, or following that specific part and not having a call at the same time, which is something that actually works in-person. It's easier to focus in-person on a person just talking in front of a whiteboard and presenting whatever he's working on. 

Right now, we're using the web-based version. If there could be a desktop application or a specific OS application that would render faster times with lower lag, under the benefits of having a desktop application, that would probably be in our best interest. A browser is going to have its limitations in terms of how much computing power it can deliver from that standpoint. Therefore, if we could use our own machine to render our schemas, that would probably be an even faster render and offer a smoother interaction between the schema and the user. That would be something that I would like to use. 

At this point, from what we were using in Lucid so far, I don't actually have any suggestions in terms of extra features. I'm really happy with what I have so far, and we're probably going to have to use it a little bit more in order to dream of something better.

We started using it in our company two or three months ago with the free version, and then we upgraded to the paid version less than a month ago.

Living in Northern Italy, as long as we have a good connection to the internet, the software works flawlessly. We haven't had any downtime. It always responds with the same access speed. Even as our schemas and our whiteboards were growing in size, the access time to the data was always the same. That was actually one of the reasons that we moved from the old software. The old software didn't guarantee this speed and access to our working environment and the data that we worked on, even as the data was growing. This accessibility was a huge plus. It was just like switching between HDD and SSD. Randomizing access time was really useful.

Working together at the same time was also a really big plus. Independent of how many people are working on the platform, we maintain the same level of proficiency. Everyone could actually access the same amount of resources at the same speed at the same time. In that sense, it scales well. Even with a growing number of users, it didn't actually lose any speed. The user experience stayed the same no matter how many people were working on the same schema or whiteboard.

In terms of expanding the capabilities of the platform itself, scaling the platform itself, my perspective is that it works flawlessly. We've been using it for a couple of months, three months now, and we actually haven't had the time to really stress it to a point in which we could see the scalability features stretched. That said, it looks really good so far.

Currently, we have seven people working on the same project at the same time, and we have multiple boards. Probably the highest usage that we've had is four people working on the same board at the same time. We have a wide variety of positions, ranging from data scientists to front and backend developers to UI and UX designers.

Right now we are using it on a daily basis. Being able to use it for planning and for the daily work of the company itself, we can actually use it for a lot of different tasks. We started from the database design and architecture infrastructure, which was more development-related, and then we introduced it also to the UI/UX team, and now they are using it as well. The company is using it daily now and pretty extensively.

I had a weird experience at first with technical support. Meaning, that at the beginning when I asked their support team if they could help me with the setup of the premium account, the paid version, they were unavailable when I asked for them, and then I forgot about it. For the rest of the week, I kept receiving emails, which I thought were just commercial emails.

Then I read them last week and I found out that it was actually their customer support team writing me direct emails, asking me if I resolved the issue. I am actually to blame for not answering them right away, however, they were really, really helpful, they actually care, and they follow up on a daily basis to see if my issue was resolved. It was my mistake completely that I thought the emails were commercial messaging.

That incident aside, from what I've seen, I would say that they are actually pretty attentive and they want to follow up closely with the client. That was something that made me appreciate that they went the extra mile to help me resolve my issue.

In our recent sprint, due to the fact that we use Atlassian as software for handling tasks and for documentation with Confluence, it is our goal to connect it. It's my understanding that it has been connected, however, we haven't tested it so far. VTT is something that we want to do, and it is one of the reasons that we chose Lucidspark - due to the integration capabilities with tools that we already use.

Integrations are important to our operation - if they work as they are advertised. If they do, they will be a huge boost in our productivity, due to the fact that being able to just share data between our applications, our tools, is something that is invaluable in terms of time management. That way, we can focus on having everything inside one container and then share down the pipeline of production, for example, from mind maps to documentation, adding them into Confluence and from Confluence into tasks in Jira and from Jira into actual production. That's actually a pipeline that we're trying to build, and it's something really, really important to us.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. The fact that we were going for something really specific made it a little bit harder to find inside Lucid, such as making Lucid usable for a wide range of applications with the same tool, we were going for something really specific, which was database designing, and finding out how to implement database designing into that required some work outside of the platform itself. That said, we found really good documentation on the Lucid website. Once we found that, it was straightforward to implement.

The deployment took less than a day. In the morning we had the accounts set up and shared and the rest of the afternoon was spent just working on it, to find out how we can actually export what we were working on into actual code, et cetera. That was it. 

We have witnessed an ROI. Just the fact that we can actually cut the database deployment time by so much is a huge return on investment. We can spend the time that we would be using on the implementation of the database to do something else. 

The pricing is pretty fair for what it does and for the performance that you get. We are in the lowest tier right now as that's more than enough for what we need, and I'd say that it's a fair price. You get a good bang for the buck. It's actually really good.

Before this and concurrently with Lucidspark, we are using Draw.io, which is the platform that we were using for database design before. However, it had really bad concurrent working between users and no export feature that would allow us to actually use it without working heavily on the export. 

We also are using Miro and Figma. We're mostly Miro for the whiteboard. I could say that Miro is the closest competitor in terms of the whiteboard feature. Miro has more or less the same speed. It does have a desktop application, which is faster using the render on the computer itself, and it also does have a really nice video conferencing feature between team members. It doesn't have the database capability that Lucid has. Apart from that, Lucid is way better. We started using it instead of using Miro.

We're using their web-based application.

We do not yet use other products in the Lucid suite, such as Lucidchart.

I'd advise other organizations to really try it. If you use any other applications similar to this one, you would see the benefits really quickly. It is worth mentioning that most of the features are actually worth switching from one application to another area in the paid plan. The free plan doesn't actually cover most of the things that we were looking for in a platform. That said, if a company makes a product, it's okay for them to ask for payment for their hard work. If I have to give one suggestion to other users, I would say don't stop at the free version. Try out the paid version and you will see the benefits.

I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten, simply due to the lack of a desktop application and the lower-quality web-conferencing feature, however, for everything else, it's been smooth sailing, from my perspective.

I use Lucidspark to brainstorm ideas. Suppose I want to create a new dashboard or new visualization in Power BI or Tableau. Before doing that, I want to brainstorm how I want my visualization to be. For that purpose, I am using Lucidspark.

I usually brainstorm my ideas, e.g., what do I want to create? Once you have a certain view in your mind and if you can put that into a document or something else, then it helps when you try to create the visualization or any dashboards in the real world. You can create any visualization that you want. It definitely helps in that way.

It is quite flexible. It is simply drag and drop. It saves a lot of time. One of the good things is you can export whatever you are creating into a PDF or something else. Also, you can share your work with others so they can collaborate and make any changes, if they wish to.

I really like Lucidspark's user interface and intuitiveness. It is simple and flexible.

It has so many things. You can insert images, screenshots, etc. There are also a lot of templates for our use, which is a good thing. For example, if I have a particular plan and can find a new template relevant, then I base it on that. I just need to edit the text, etc.

It definitely helps when prioritizing things. For a business problem, you can create many different documents and easily compare them, then you can decide which one that you want to go forward with.

There are so many features that you can do. There is also a presentation builder where you can use the documents that you are creating as a presentation. 

One thing that I noticed, when I was creating a document or something else, is a lot of empty space. If I am creating from a particular position, there is a lot of empty space above it. I am not sure why this happens. If there is a solution for this, then it would help.

Recently, I requested a license from my company for this software. I have been using the tool for the past week.

In the last week, I haven't faced any kinds of issues or difficulties.

I haven't found any limitations or downsides. It provides you with everything that you need to brainstorm your ideas. 

There are many data scientists using this particular software in our company. Some are using Lucidspark, while some are also using Lucidchart,

I have not contacted the technical support.

I used to simply use PowerPoint, Paint, or something like that previously. This is the first time that I am using this kind of software.

In PowerPoint, you need a lot of effort if you want to create even a simple text box or insert images. So, it takes a lot of effort and is also very time-consuming. Whereas, with Lucidspark's interfaces, you can simply drag and drop whatever you want and quickly create anything that you want to create. This saves time and makes it easy to use.

The initial setup is very straightforward. You need to log into it, then you can simply start creating anything you want. There is no complexity.

I would definitely give it a nine out of 10. I really like it. I would recommend others to use this particular software, since it is intuitive, flexible, time-saving, and easy to use. It has a lot of features that definitely help.

I have not used the Collaborator Colors feature, but we will use it in the future.

We use Lucidspark as a tool to collaborate on organizing our platform architecture. The company I work for has a lot of different platforms and backend systems and we've used Lucidspark a lot to document what those platforms are, share it amongst our teams, and make sure everything looks correct. If there's feedback or changes, it's really easy to use this app to have that shared with everybody.

An example of the use case would be a request to show the entire structure of our company, data structure, and platform structure. I would create a chart with all that information. Usually, it would be from a sketch or a whiteboard drawing, and then I would use Lucidspark to make it that much more clean, clear, and editable.

It's easy to collaborate and it's easy to share amongst various team members. I myself am a product designer, and I found that in the past, as a project designer it's hard to work with engineers in terms of finding a product that satisfies what I need and want to do with the project designer and what they need and want as engineers. This tool is a good combination of both, and I feel like it's super easy to use. It makes a lot of sense. It's simple enough, but also has enough complicated features to make it what we want it to be.  

The usability is overall super straightforward and it makes a lot of sense after you spend some time in it.

The user interface is not intuitive because I have used other applications previously, and Lucidspark took a little bit more time. Once I figured out how to save shapes, that was super helpful, but it did take probably one or two times to get there. Once I understood it, it made a lot of sense. I did watch a quick tutorial, which was helpful just to get a sense of how to make some changes and update everything. 

I've only been using it for a very short amount of time. It's pretty new to me. I've used other products similar to it before, but I'm on a new team and so we're using this product to check it out and see how it would work from a collaborative perspective.

It seems very stable. I haven't heard of any issues with it. I know it's been tried and true with our team.

It seems to scale really well. It seems to be really easy to modify, expand on, and add on to. Currently, we have about 60 users and their roles range from data analysts, backend engineers, front-end engineers, platforms engineers, and one product designer. 

I've never had to engage with their tech support but there seems to be a lot of resources.

We were using Overflow and were using it mostly just because it was familiar to us and it was pretty simple. But we switched over because Lucid is far more robust in terms of what it could do and is more geared towards the engineering team. It was also more affordable for our team.

The initial setup was straightforward. It was really easy to jump right in and figure things out. It took a little bit of time to find out some more specific things that I wanted to do, but it was pretty easy to understand and figure out.

Our engineering team does the deployment, if necessary.

We needed about three members that have access to deploy. All of their roles are various types of engineers.

Lucidspark is being used within a small portion of our team relatively extensively, but we do have plans to expand on it and provide more access to more teammates at my company. The growth will be slow over time but it surely has been growing.

It has enabled us to have the ability to ramp people up more quickly and educate employees more effectively. Even though we only have five or six of us using Lucid, we have a lot of our teammates still viewing and engaging with it. That has been extremely valuable to better document and educate our teammates on various topics and information.

My advice would be to really check out all the features, see all that I can do. Understand that it's a really powerful tool and it could really add a lot of value to what your team does and how they structure everything.

I learned how important it is to have tools that allow my teammates to be able to see what's going on, make comments, make improvements, and to do it in a way that doesn't bottleneck. It has been eye-opening to see how those tools enabled that without having a ton of back and forth. It makes my job a lot easier.

I would rate Lucidspark an eight out of ten. It's a really great product. I do think that there are still possibilities for improvement and extension, or just overall ad-ons to make the user experience a little bit cleaner. But in terms of what it can do and all the additions it has, I think there's a ton of potential.

My primary use case for this solution was educational. I used Lucidspark to practice design thinking with several other students. It's a good place for collaborative work. 

Some of the students I collaborated with were interested in product management, a big part of which entails thinking from the customer's perspective and figuring out what the solutions to a problem should be.

As a group, we used Lucidspark to collaborate and share our thoughts on potential problems and solutions. Think of it like a human design-thinking workshop.

Lucidspark helped us prioritize ideas, which was very important for us. We did a workshop and, as part of that, we were trying to act as product managers and figure out which solutions should be implemented, so idea prioritization played a major role.

The ability to group ideas automatically does save time. For example, four people can put their thoughts down and Lucidspark will help them see the commonalities and patterns among their entries.

Lucidspark's ability to automatically group ideas saves time and helps users prioritize. This Lucidspark feature quickly distills the entire group's ideas into different buckets. The group can then make a call on what to first solve for. This is how we used Lucidspark. We knew that we would come up with multiple ideas but we wanted to see which buckets most people would fall into. 

This feature is helpful if, for example, you are trying to identify the problems associated with a particular product and prioritize which to work on first.

With Lucidspark, you really don't have to keep track of everything because so much is automated. The solution enables you to spend more time discussing and revising ideas and less time organizing. This was important for us. Had we been using some other solution, like Notepad, for example, a lot more time would have been spent in writing things down. With Lucidspark, we spent very little time doing that. It definitely improved our productivity.

Lucidspark is very customizable. We spent more time in ideation rather than making sure we were writing in a way that is clear and that nothing was lost.

Overall, I found it very intuitive and easy to use. I didn't find it difficult at all. I appreciated Lucidspark's integration with Lucidchart. 

I found the whiteboard very customizable. You can create different stages of a flow chart, for example. You can play around with a lot of variables. Initially, the default structure of the whiteboard was not useful for us. However, we were quickly able to change the structure. I found the whiteboard easy to use and change. It’s easy to collaborate using this product. Also, multiple people can use the whiteboard at the same time. For example, I can be filling in something while my classmates fill in something else. This is helpful.

We used Lucidspark’s Collaborator Colors feature. I've never come across anything like it. It's a good solution for collaborative brainstorming. I don't think there is any other solution where I could do collaborative brainstorming this well.

We also used the sticky notes quite often. We would write our thoughts on a sticky note and then circle back in five minutes to discuss what we put together.

One challenge we ran into while collaborating on Lucidspark was tracking time. We would, for example, set aside 90 minutes for a particular task but end up spending a lot more time on it. It would be great to see if Lucidspark could also help us keep track of time. That feedback would be beneficial.  

I've used Lucidspark a couple of times as part of some group activities. 

I did not run into any issues with stability. 

Lucidspark seems scalable; like any number of people could use it. We've used it in groups of five to six people. I plan to increase my usage.

I have not used their tech support yet. 

I never knew something like Lucidspark existed before. For previous brainstorming sessions, I would just use a projector and open up Notepad. 

The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few minutes. 

Initially, it was straightforward to use and play around with the whiteboard. I was immediately able to start working on it. It didn't take me more than two or three minutes to get started.

We implemented it ourselves. 

I am still using a free trial. 

I did not evaluate other options. 

Lucidspark is a great product. I would definitely recommend it to anybody who's thinking of doing some collaborative brainstorming work. The solution can also be used by individuals working on big projects. 

I didn't notice a difference between remote and in-person sessions. Using Lucidspark, it felt like all of us were working in-person on a huge whiteboard. You could see in real-time what everyone else was doing.

I haven’t used Lucidspark’s Slack integration, but it seems useful and natural.

I used this product for coursework in a design class as a university student. It was primarily for UML diagrams, activity diagrams, and several other diagrams that are typically used in IT.

I find the intuitiveness of the user interface to be very good. The main benefit to using this product was how much more quickly I could get things done, and this is because it was more intuitive than the other options. It is also responsive, and I've actually saved a lot of time using it compared to a few other options that I tried.

For example, I tried for approximately four hours to get one particular diagram working using Draw.io and Visio. I finally gave up when I couldn't get it working, then it took me about five minutes to complete it with Lucidspark.

I have used the Lucidspark whiteboard to brainstorm ideas with group members for group activities, albeit the collaboration was not always virtual. We were together in the same room. However, it is good because it helps to keep everything organized and it's easier to distribute if you've got an electronic copy.

It is important to point out that we did use it for collaboration, although it was more of a visual tool to help us get everything in front of the group. After that, we moved our points to a more organized spreadsheet. We would use it as a tool to keep it on task while we were talking over Discord.

As part of our work, we used it during remote sessions. I found that it's always a bit harder to keep people on the same page when it's not in person, but everybody was paying attention.

We used both Lucidspark and Lucidchart. Lucidspark was used primarily for group work, whereas Lucidchart was used for generating reports and whatnot. The combination of the products was helpful in terms of visualizing each step of the process. Overall, the suite is easy to use and there are no really annoying idiosyncrasies that I had to learn.

Using this product helped to boost the productivity of our working sessions. We were doing some front-end design of an app, and there were times when we couldn't meet in person. Being able to quickly draw something up so that everybody could see it, made the process much easier.

I enjoy being able to just use an endless canvas because I tried using some other apps and they were a bit fiddly to deal with. For example, I had a lot of arrows and Draw.io was very annoying. I also used a different, industry-based application, Visio, and that was just hopeless.

How easy it is to use is the best feature.

Initially, I was a little confused about how to get to the different projects.

I would like to have a dark mode, but the option is not available.

When I was making some of the charts, some anchors were a bit annoying. I had trouble keeping everything lined up where if I moved a section over to add to a chart, it became a bit more difficult to get everything back into line. I had to go through each element that I'd moved because sometimes it would end off by a few pixels, which really annoyed me.

I used Lucidspark for approximately three months, over the course of a semester at university.

The stability was good. I didn't have any particular issues with availability or performance.

For the scope of the work that I had to do, and the level of collaboration involved, I did not have any issues with scalability. I didn't really have to consider how much further it would need to expand.

I tried using Draw.io and Visio. What I really liked about Lucidspark is that all of the specific icons were available and easy to find. Each kind of UML diagram that I wanted to work on was already included.  I didn't have to go hunting around for those and that they also work seamlessly.

For example, I had to do some curved arrows to and from certain boxes and it was really difficult to make those symmetrical using Draw.io. However, I could do this pretty easily in Lucidspark.

The initial setup was very simple. I just had to sign up and then it was available in the browser, so there was very little setup. All of the things that I needed were just modules I had to open. I skipped the tutorial, so I didn't need that. It was very easy.

I have definitely seen a return on my investment. For the amount of time that I saved, even for just one sticking point, in particular, I felt it was a good ROI. The reality is that it saved me a lot of time and I'm pretty busy, so that was very important.

As some of the charts that I was using had a couple of hundred elements, I needed to use a paid version of Lucidspark. The pricing is very reasonable. It is more expensive than some of the free options out there but much cheaper than Visio, and it works much better.

My advice for anybody who is considering this solution is to just give it a try. It has basically the same interface as Draw.io, which I know a lot of people are using, so they may already be familiar with it. The difference is that some of the annoying factors of working in that system were eliminated.

For example, with Draw.io, you really have to manage what's in front of what. Whereas in Lucidchart and Lucidspark, it was much easier to keep people organized, especially as an interactive task when collaborating.

One of the features available is the Collaborator Colors, where users can be assigned certain colors for their notes and other contributions. We did not use this feature extensively. Rather, we all got our thoughts out, transferred the dot points, and kept track of who is assigned tasks by using the collaborator colors. Essentially, it was our tracking mechanism.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

I am a consultant to the financial services industry. I use Lucidspark for process development for the different contracts that I've got.

I run it on all of my devices including my desktop, iPhone, and iPad.

In terms of intuitiveness, the web-based interface is great. For iOS, I do not find it as easy to use. Trying to update documents on my phone, the screen is very small and that presents a problem. I've used it a couple of times on the iPad and I've accomplished what I wanted to accomplish, but it's taken longer than if I were to do it on the computer.

Lucidspark allows me to prioritize ideas, which is important to me. It is my main charting and documenting tool that I'm using for ideas that I have. 

The product allows me to spend more time discussing and revising ideas and next steps, rather than organizing them. This is something that is very important because I'm using documentation to help clients visualize the process that they have to go through.

Although I have only been using Lucidspark for a short time, I believe it's enhanced my brainstorming sessions and made them more productive. 

The most valuable feature is the different ways that you can build out the charting and the mind maps. There are various different templates that are included in the program.

It's nice to have the ability to go cross-platform. I use both iOS devices and PC devices, so that's really important to me. It's nice that I can do stuff from a mobile perspective because when I'm out of the office, I can still work on it. I'm not always working in my office location, so it's a nice function.

It takes me longer to complete the same task on mobile devices than it does on the desktop. It's not as big as a computer screen but it isn't just related to the screen size. It could be the operating system, which is the interface between the program and iOS. The computer I'm using is a PC-based computer, and it is seamless and efficient.

I woke up in the middle of the night a couple of nights ago and I wanted to do something. Using my iPad, it seems clunky and isn't as responsive as my PC. It was between 2 am and 3 am, and I was thinking about something that was noteworthy. I went to Lucid on my iOS device, the iPad, and I tried to put the information in. I couldn't get it in the way I wanted it to, and so I flipped over to another application and wrote the information down and then went back later in the day and got on the PC and put it back into Lucid that way. So, I did get some of the stuff into Lucid on the iPad in the middle of the night, but not a lot. Ultimately, I got frustrated and I thought that it was taking far too long. That is why I switched to the other application.

It would be nice if you could import things into Lucid and then manipulate them from there. For example, when I did work in the middle of the night, it was a text-based application. I had to re-type the stuff in the morning into Lucid. It would have been nice to be able to import it and then use the Lucid functions to manipulate the data.

One thing that might be beneficial to future potential users is for the vendor to extend the trial to like a two-week period instead of a one-week period. I started creating documents immediately because I had an immediate need, but if you don't have an immediate need, you might not be able to use it within that week. So, I would say extend the trial for two weeks to give the user a greater opportunity to test it.

I have been using Lucidspark for approximately two weeks.

On the PC, it works wonderfully. On the iOS piece, not so much. I don't use an Apple computer, so it might integrate better in that case, but it seems clunky. It's hard to manipulate on my iPhone, and it's easier, but not as easy on an iPad.

I've started using the scalability features, meaning my documents are getting much larger than they could ever get in the previous applications I was using. Now I've got documents with multiple pages and multiple processes on multiple pages. From that standpoint, it's fantastic because now the client can start by looking at the overview from a high level, then drill down into a particular section of the process, then down into the different steps involved in the process.

From this standpoint, scalability is great.

At this point, I'm the only person in the company using it. Within the next month, I'm probably going to introduce it to one of the organizations that I deal with.

I have not had a need to contact technical support.

I have tried four different solutions for this type of work, including Mind Map, Draw.io, and Visio. Of the few that I have gone through, Lucid is the one I'm using right now the most. The other ones didn't provide what I was looking for, just from a functionality standpoint and a documentation standpoint.

Visio is one that I used years ago and I just wasn't satisfied with the process to get things accomplished. It seemed that you had to read a manual and get training in order to effectively use it.

I have also used iOS-based applications including SimpleMind and Simple.io. These were iOS applications that could not work across different platforms and because I've got a PC desktop, I couldn't go back and forth between it and my mobile devices. These products were easy to use but I couldn't cross the interfaces.

Essentially, I've got four other programs out there that are becoming obsolete because of Lucid.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I've been using these types of products for probably six or seven years, or maybe more than that. From an intuitive standpoint, I knew what I was looking for and what I was going to do. It was fairly easy to set up the documents I wanted to set up, and then it was an intuitive process to go through and manipulate them the way I needed them to.

There's no special training and there's no need to read a manual before you use it. From that standpoint, it was nice.

From a communications standpoint, and from an ease of communicating with clients standpoint, I'd say that I have seen a return on my investment.

The pricing is in line with everything else out there, and you get what you pay for. I haven't looked at the enterprise-level pricing, as I'm subscribed with the individual or the small team pricing. That's comparable to what I've seen elsewhere.

It'd be great to have it cheaper, but once again, if you lose some of the functionality, it's not really worth being cheaper for that.

There was a list of perhaps 10 products that I evaluated. I printed them out, went to the websites, and looked at them. These were all of the big products and one of them that I recall is either Edraw or Draw.io. That is the one that I came closest to, but I chose Lucid over it.

I needed a robust charting, process, documenting program and that's why I chose Lucid. I looked online, I did a bunch of different comparisons of the stuff out there in the marketplace. When I looked at Lucidspark I thought that it looked to be the most robust for what I want to do.

The feature set that was documented on the Lucid website was what prompted me to start a trial. I didn't go into the trial of the Draw.io product. When I compared the features that were explained on the websites between Lucid versus Draw.io, it really motivated me to do the trial and then to become a subscriber.

I am using this product for high-level ideas right now but I haven't yet turned on the virtual whiteboard features. I've only been using it for a couple of weeks and I'm still getting comfortable with it. I can envision virtual whiteboards, which would be fantastic because right now I'm using Google Meetings and their virtual whiteboard while I'm in meetings.

I haven't yet looked at the virtual whiteboard, but I am hoping that there is a drawing feature embedded into Lucid. That would be fantastic.

I use it for brainstorming but not over the PC. I've basically done mind mapping and brainstorming for myself but I haven't used it in a collaborative environment yet.

I know that there is integration with Google available because it has come up on my screen, although I haven't used it yet.

My advice for anybody who is considering Lucidspark is to definitely give it a try and do the analysis. Overall, I think that this is a good product and my biggest complaint is because of the iOS interface.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I've been mainly using it to make flow charts and kind of brainstorm ideas for my business. I have not used it for anything else yet. I'm going to expand later into more collaborative forms of using Lucidspark.

I've installed it on my computer.

Something that has helped me a lot is definitely organization and having a visual map of where I've decided to go with everything. It has helped me become more engaged with my colleagues and with my ideas. It is easier to bring something to fruition once I've had everything laid out in front of me. There is such a high level of engagement with the data that we've been using. It is easier to get everything done in a smooth manner during Zoom calls or even in-person sessions.

Its virtual whiteboard is very functional for brainstorming high-level ideas and concepts, and you can use it for this. It creates an easily accessible area where I can just put my ideas. I don't have to worry about having one person to do the job of writing everything down. It saves a lot of time when working collaboratively. I'm not sure how much time I'm saving exactly, but it has definitely been saving a lot of filler time. Probably, it has saved six hours just on working through. You don't have to assign people certain tasks. Everyone can work on the same thing at the same time.

Its Collaborator Colors feature helps in keeping a track of who's doing what and how different ideas are meshing together. It isn't the most important feature of Lucidspark for us. I am in a small business, and I don't necessarily need to scroll on some sort of infinite whiteboard to see everything, but it is very important from the visual aspect of knowing how everything has been organized. You can see a visual thought process on the screen.

One of my favorite things about Lucidspark is that it is very easy to use. It is very intuitive for all users. There is not much time lost in setting up or doing anything else, which makes it different from in-person sessions. In in-person sessions, you have to set up everything on a real whiteboard and spend time erasing it, whereas, in Lucidspark, you can just click, drag, and delete all of your ideas.

It is helpful for prioritizing ideas. I've been using Lucidspark to brainstorm ideas. Anything that I've used on Lucidspark is going to be one of my more prominent ideas. It makes it easy to bring them to fruition. It turns the ideas into more accessible thoughts that can be added and edited by me and my work colleagues.

It helps you see the way everyone is thinking and the way everyone is coming up with these ideas because it is so visual. Everything is in front of you, and you don't have to worry about the organization as much because it is helping you intuitively do that.

The ease of using Lucidspark is definitely my favorite. It has been very intuitive, and it is easy for me to drag and drop my ideas to be able to be viewed by my colleagues. It is easily accessible for everyone with whom I'm working.

Sometimes, editing text can be confusing. Changing different fonts and subtitles and the shapes that you're trying to use can be confusing. There isn't that much that I would improve other than just nitpicky user differences.

I have been using this solution for about three or four months.

It is very stable, and I have never run into any issues where I have to talk to a customer service team. It has been very reliable for me and everyone I've been working with. I wouldn't say that I've had any trouble with it.

I haven't necessarily been in a place where I've needed to use the scalability aspect of Lucidspark, but in the future, I can see that being something that I would look into. Knowing how Lucidspark has been easy to use for me, I'm sure it would be easy for me to scale in the future.

Currently, I'm the main user of Lucidspark, and then I have people who come on to my charts and help me with them. There are probably around 10 or 15 people on it at one time, but I'm the main editor.

It has become my main form of brainstorming and creating ideas before I bring them out into my company. It is just a way to visually see everything before it becomes palatable within the company. In the future, I would end up using it more collaboratively with my colleagues, but for now, it is the personal and visual way of thinking about things.

I have never interacted with their technical support.

I used Jamboard in the past. I switched because Lucidspark was easier in my experience. It was easier for it to become a part of upfront work instead of making it difficult for everyone to be on one document at the same time. Lucidspark doesn't necessarily have the same glitches that the Google Suite apps have. It has this seamless, user-friendly format that does not get in the way of the actual creative process, whereas Jamboard kind of got in the way. It was more focused on setting it up than actually creating the idea.

It is very straightforward. Learning how to set it up is very easy, and it doesn't take away from the process at all. It is easy to navigate, and it has images. Combined with this kind of modern setup, it is very easy for anyone to use. It took about half an hour.

Definitely, just the time saved has been a huge game-changer with everything that I've been doing. There is no time that I have to spend getting everyone into one document or into one file to try and create an idea. It is always there, and everyone is on the same thing contributing at the same time. As an administrator, it is easier to be straightforward and have everything planned out in one space rather than flipping back and forth between different files.

I don't think that the cost is ever something that I considered. It has always been worth it to pay a small payment and help everyone with their tasks. It has definitely helped me become more organized. I don't think that the cost has been a barrier at all, and it is worth it to be able to pay for it.

I didn't evaluate other solutions. I just kind of went with it.

It is completely worth it, especially during the time where half of the workers are online. It makes things much more seamless, and it gives us a more collaborative and engaging aspect of working where you feel like everyone is together, especially on the same file. Not overthinking the whole online aspect of Lucidspark would be my advice.

I have not yet used its integration with other products. I have also not used any other product from their suite. I have only used Lucidspark so far.

I would rate Lucidspark a 10 out of 10. I haven't had any issues.

My primary use case is for documenting processes. 

The Whiteboard session feature could be the most helpful feature. It can help my organization through brainstorming and design sessions for technical tools, systems, and solutions. It's hard to brainstorm remotely and this tool will help to facilitate that.

Lucidspark enables us to spend more time discussing and revising ideas and next steps and less time organizing them. We're spending the same amount of time working through all those items. It takes the same amount of time for us to use Lucidchart as it is to use Lucidspark.

The suite is really helpful at helping us to visualize each step of the process from brainstorming additional ideas to turning those ideas into reality. I'm speaking more to Lucidchart, but also Lucidspark. I use Lucidchart and Spark pretty often. The products in the suite easily convey processes to people. They're really helpful. I think they're great workflow tools.

It is pretty easy to move our ideas from the idea stage to execution using the vendor's suite of products. We use it pretty often too. We use it to convey how the technical solutions will actually impact a stakeholder. It makes it really easy for us to give our stakeholders something visual before we've actually built something.

The sharing feature is the most valuable feature. It's been really easy to share Lucidspark boards and documents with other people.

The Lucidspark app creates a web link and you can just copy-paste and give that to anyone, for anyone to view a flow chart or document you've created, it's just like a Google doc.

The user interface is pretty straightforward. I have no real complaints. It's pretty clear what I need to do and how to do it.

So far, Lucidspark and Lucidchart have been comparable products. Lucidspark has been helpful, but it feels like there are products that can replace it and that I could use that work just as well.

The tool felt pretty similar to Lucidchart and I wasn't a super avid user of it. A lot of the features were pretty similar. I feel like they were pretty straightforward. I didn't run into any issues. And even in terms of non-issues, like enhancements, I feel like there wasn't anything I could really think of that would be helpful to improve the tool.

Creating the documents was pretty straightforward. Lucidchart has templates. I didn't use the template feature, but that was something that I wanted with Lucidchart that I saw that they had in Lucidspark, but I didn't use.

I have been using Lucidspark for two months.

It is very stable.

It is pretty scalable. It felt like it matched a lot of the same structure as Lucidchart in terms of how they organize their documents. 

One of the other team members who uses it is a software developer. He helps to build and design technical shelves for submissions. I use it in my role as a manager of the business systems team. I help with the use case that I use it for which is for business analyst work that is documenting requirements and sharing process flows for the business.

It does not require any maintenance. 

We did not use it that extensively and currently have no plans to buy a license. It looks like a helpful tool for the Whiteboarding component, which I'd love to use in future meetings, but I think they have a free version that I'm looking at now. 

I have also used Google Sheets. I chose Lucidspark because of the free trial.

The initial setup was straightforward. I just got a license and then logged in and it was an easily true SaaS product. The moment I had the license and was able to log in, I was able to access the product and immediately start doing stuff.

If we were paying for the solution, I would definitely expect to see some return and the return would be in terms of efficiency gains. The main reason I'd want to use it is to make it easier for my online team to communicate, discuss, and brainstorm with each other. If it's subjectively easier to do that, then that feels like a return to me. It would be around 5% to 10% of a return. 

There are licensing fees for some of us to use it, but I'm not sure what they are and I don't remember encountering it during the trial.

It has not affected the productivity of our working and brainstorming sessions too much. We recently did a big overhaul on our Salesforce system for some of our logic and one of our offshore developers used Lucidspark to explain how he designed the solution that just made it really easy for us to understand. He used documentation as the technical design.

My advice would be to use it more. Use it more than I did specifically for the Whiteboarding design and scrum rituals that happen. Utilize more of the features. 

I would rate it a six out of ten. It's a good product. I just don't know if it's valuable. It just seems like I could use it in Lucidchart or with other products in their suite to replace it.

I am making use of Lucidspark as an architectural design tool for my final year project. 

While I have tried other solutions, I have found Lucidspark to be very helpful with my use case. 

The solution offers many features that I find to be beneficial with my architectural design.  

The user interface is pretty easy for me to use... and I haven't faced any kind of issues with it.

The virtual whiteboard for brainstorming high-level ideas and concepts... is good.

The solution enables me to prioritize ideas. This is basically why I use Lucidspark. When I started out on my project I had planned to design my final architecture with the help of some online tool from a white sheet on which I had drawn. When I found out about Lucidspark I realized that it helps me with the design.

The solution has features to tag and automatically group ideas to help organize and synthesize them after a brainstorming session. This ability helps me to find patterns and things among the ideas. It really helps me to share ideas with my friends.

The solution allows me to automatically group ideas so that I can take action and move them forward. It allows me to repeatedly download my ideas, share them with my friends and get their feedback.

The solution allows me to spend more time discussing and revising ideas and next steps and less time organizing them. It really helps me to decrease the need for manual effort. I feel very positive about this feature. It is good enough to help me.

The copying and pasting features need to be improved as they gave me trouble when I tried to copy and paste from one end to the other. This proved especially problematic for students who are working on disparate projects. 

It would be really helpful if more features and templates would be added to the product. This would also result in a decrease of manual effort. 

I have been using Lucidspark for the past month. 

The solution is quite effective and insures against any problem or challenge one may encounter. 

We have not made use of the solution's technical support. 

While I cannot recall their exact names, I do know that I tried several online whiteboard tools but found their use to be difficult. Lucidspark, by contrast, turned out to be straightforward.

The initial setup took several minutes. I do not have any specific implementation strategy of which to speak. 

We did not use an integrator, reseller or consultant for the deployment.

I have not seen a return on my investment.

One must pay extra if he wishes to have a higher level product. Most students such as myself will opt for a paid version. 

In my experience I have found the solution to be quite easy to use. 

I rate Lucidspark as a 7.5 out of ten. 

Our primary use case was to put together a presentation for spelling and demonstrating our product and process charts for processes in the insurance industry.

Everyone was involved in doing a remote brainstorming session. Everyone felt like they needed to be involved. We have a great team. Everyone was involved and had ideas. Instead of everyone drawing everyone said, "Hey, we could do this." And the reason why is because of the nature of who the boss is. She wants to have more control. If we have a different organizational structure, then it would have been easier for everyone to say, "Hey, here's my idea." But you have to throw it out there and see if the boss likes it first. If the boss likes it then we draw it so everybody can see what it is. So it wasn't a true brainstorming session.

Lucidspark has made us very productive. If we didn't have Lucidspark and I had to use Visio, I really wouldn't have used Visio. I would've used another tool like Adobe publisher or something like that. I wouldn't have used process charts. My boss really wasn't asking for that to begin with but once she saw it, she loved it. And so we went that way, but some of the illustrations that we were preparing for the presentation did not lend themselves well at all to process charts. So I used Adobe products to put those together, but once we started using the process charts, that's what she was excited about. And that's what we went with. 

It made us very productive because it was very easy to make the changes once we had our brainstorming session. We were able to scale quickly to make those changes.

We're a startup company and so our goal with Lucidspark is to get more people aware of it. And so the presentation at this point is just for an outside consultant so that they can tell us how we can fine-tune it so that we can actually go to larger people in the insurance industry and get more buy-in. It's too early to tell how successful that will be or how we haven't had the big presentation yet. That will be coming soon. That feedback and input will be coming soon. If it's successful, then Lucidspark will make us look good. It's worth a lot of money to us.

Some of the basic process features like the circles and squares for texts and the arrows are the most valuable features. One of the most important features that we used was inserting images and resizing them. I don't think we could have used it if we didn't have the smart snapping system for snapping the lines to objects.

We use basic features like object fill and line color. 

It's very intuitive. There were other features that another team member described as the go-to standard for the industry for making process charts. And so they recommended it. They developed a template with it and shared the template with me. It was very easy for me to just create the same thing. 

The user interface is easy to use. There were other things that I was expected to make work like other people had done and they were expected to make things like I had done. Even though we had a template, there were times when we couldn't access each other's template and it was very easy to just go ahead and make it just like they had it. It's very intuitive. It's very easy to figure out where things are and how to use things.

We used the virtual whiteboard for brainstorming high-level ideas a couple of times. There were a couple of meetings where it was really hard to describe on the phone what we wanted to do. So there are times when we circle things and say, "Okay, we need to move this over, put this over there." 

It's not really better than some of the other things out there, but it worked. It was entertaining for the guy that had to draw with it, but there are several things about whiteboards that I just don't like. But it's really not worse than anything else out there, it's just not better.

They have a nice color palette and the color palette is intuitive. What I mean by intuitive is that the colors chosen work really well with the text. If you put text over an object with color behind it, then the text is very visible. So that's very nice. But we worked with the owner of the company to make presentations and she wanted colors that did not make sense but we went ahead and used those anyway. It might be nice to have just a few more default colors set up even if they were the colors that you would have to reverse the text out. Maybe if they were dark and you'd have to use white text on them.

It would be nice to have some of those because everything that we started out with, the boss said, "All of those are pastel colors. So I don't like those. We need something bolder and brighter." That's what we had to go find. If there were some default colors that were bolder and brighter, even though they don't work with texts so well, then we could reverse out the text and make it whiter or something like that. 

They have a grid system for snapping too, and they've done a lot to try to line things up so that the lines don't squiggle when you draw a line between one item and another. Everything has to be lined up. Everything has to be 90 degrees exact. But a lot of other people on the team just throw something together really quickly and the lines are not straight. And so it would be nice to have some feature that eliminates that problem.

I write software, so I know that's probably a very complex issue and they look like they spent a lot of time working on it that still doesn't quite work. That's the only thing that I can think of that might make it better.

I have been using Lucidspark for three weeks.

It's very available. It's very easy to get started and very easy to use. We didn't have to wait on it to update and didn't have to wait on the server or anything. It was very available and very easy to use. There were no problems at all using it.

There were only three of us using it and so I don't know how big it can scale. I'm sure it is scalable.

We don't have plans to increase usage in the future. Since we've used it in the past and it worked well, I'm sure we'll use it again. But I really don't know how much longer or more we will use it.

I have used Visio and I like Visio. I know how to use it. When you're asked to do something quickly and you already know a tool that you can use well, the tendency is to use the tool that you already know. Someone else convinced the boss that this was the best tool. I jumped into this which is a plus for the intuitiveness of their user interface. We were able to get going quickly. It's just as easy, if not easier to use than Visio.

Visio is not really software as a service. It's more of something you install on your system. And so if you're getting started and you have to use it, you would have to install it. Compared with Lucidspark and what we were doing, there are more tools and templates. There is more of an opportunity to get confused and lost. It's a little bit less intuitive. What we were doing with Lucidspark was truly easy and fast and it's online. So you really don't have to do anything to get started or get it going. I really liked that it was very frictionless.

The initial setup was very easy. It was frictionless. Nobody was setting this up for us. And so once the decision was made to go to Lucidspark, we all went out, created accounts, and got started. It was very easy to use.

It's too early to see ROI but the boss was very happy with what we produced and I get paid for that. So I have certainly experienced a return on investment from using it. It's $9.99 a month and I get paid well for that. So I've gotten paid for my investment in it.

They have a good pricing model. I'm an independent contractor and so I don't mind paying $9.99 a month for that when I'm getting paid well to use it and get results with it. So I think that's a good model. If it was $39.99 a month, I certainly wouldn't have chosen to use it.

There are no additional costs to the standard licensing. 

It's the easiest flowcharting process software out there. I would have chosen Visio but since somebody suggested Lucidspark, I decided to try it and it was in fact much easier than Visio to use if you're making process charts or diagrams. I'm thinking about using it for planning and creating process charts of my own, not just for my work. I would recommend it.

I would rate Lucidspark an eight out of ten. I like to give room for improvement to things. The snap and grid system still needs to be fixed so that people are less careful about how they make things look.