A welcomed alternative to Visio

I’m a user experience designer with an engineering background who loves process. So this software holds the potential to resonate with me in multiple ways.

inShort is to be commended for many things: reinventing various flowcharting norms in useful ways, an extremely appealing visual aesthetic (its assets, not UI), and a super-handy in-context help system.

It does however come up short in several areas: non-standard UI with a bit of a learning curve, awkward UX splattered throughout, wonky undo functionality, limited object customization, no custom objects, limited import/export options, and seemingly non-native English support text.

In any case, the developers deserve high praise for their nonconventional thinking that could very well move flowcharting to its next generation. The more unpleasant bits and pieces mentioned above will hopefully be addressed in future releases, allowing me to completely forget about using Visio.

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