visio

Our hard-coded (Names, user profile pictures) visio-based floor-plans are constantly out of date as users leave, move desks, join etc.

Being a fulltime Linux user, finding a Visio like diagramming tool is hard to find.

A surprising number of people also use Project, Visio and OneNote and there's not really a good portable solution for those cases.

Musing: Visio is unpleasant to draw diagrams with but the results are good.

I threw together a Visio of the process and walked him through the blocks one by one.

The ability to make dimensioned drawings with Visio doesn't make you an engineer.

I find whiteboard and or Visio diagramming pretty useful (both high level, and more fine grain).

I'm a long time user of Visio but lately I've been using online diagram tools like Gliffy, especially for some UML.

In fact, I'd argue we should teach people visio instead of excel if the only thing we're shooting for is mental modeling.

Microsoft Office, the Adobe suite, Visio (bought out by Microsoft), desktop databases, etc.

Being able to sketch on paper and have the sketch turned into a visio diagram would be cool - rough circles turned into neat ones, rough lines into neat connections, this symbol into a server, that one into a building.

You could then link the SQL database to the live Visio floorplans and then move the users around as needed on the page, making them up to date for the whole office as soon as one person updates it, rather than having to email the whole office with the updated document, wasting time and effort, as as soon as any personnel changes are made, the document has to be manually re-edited with names and whatnot from scratch.

Some shoddy ones like "AOC" or even Visio may use different (whatevers cheaper) panels over time and sell them as the same model number.

I don't want "tries to explore the network and draw a diagram for me", or "draw on the web and export in visio format", but I do want "get the same or similar results with less hassle".

Being able to sketch on paper and have the sketch turned into a visio diagram would be cool - rough circles turned into neat ones, rough lines into neat connections, this symbol into a server, that one into a building." In fact, I was working on this exact same idea for a while some time ago and shelved it when I found it to be difficult:) Do you think that this is something people would pay for?

Whatever you do, go for a drawing tool (Visio, Omnigraffle) and not a UML tool (Visual paradigm, Enterprise architect).

Visio, Magnavox, and even Samsung's low end TVs dont have Smart features.

The only issue was the lack of Visio, which I replaced with Omnigraffle.