Overview
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 saves time and confusion by visualizing complicated processes
Amazing and versatile product
Awesome tool for remote teams and workflow optimization
Less swirl / more collaboration
Collaboration and ideation done right
Whimsical delivers for UX professionals.
An amazing playground for ideas
Whimsical is Wonderful
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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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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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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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(1-9 of 9)My go-to mind mapping tool
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.
Can't think of any scenario where it is less appropriate, except for maybe, a larger enterprise where data confidentiality may be an issue.
Whimsical saves time and confusion by visualizing complicated processes
- 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
Amazing and versatile product
- 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
- 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
It's very easy to use and has a great set of tools even on the free plan.
Less swirl / more 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
Collaboration and ideation done right
- White-boarding.
- Mind mapping.
- Journey mapping.
- Retros.
- Technical mapping.
- User flows.
- Wire framing.
- Ideation sessions.
- Export.
- Sharing with stakeholders.
- Temporary collaboration permissions.
Whimsical delivers for UX professionals.
- 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.
An amazing playground for ideas
- 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.
Whimsical is Wonderful
- Simple low fidelity wireframing
- Site mapping
- User flow mapping
- Limited design capabilities for more detailed wireframing