When creating a technical architecture diagram, your goal is to give understanding to your audience. You want to honestly inform viewers about your system rather than merely make an impression. Mistakes made when creating diagrams can undermine this goal, however. Here are seven common mistakes to avoid when making …

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A lot of key features are planned for Ilograph in 2020: diagram history, collaboration tools and team workspaces are just a few that can be named. To kick off 2020, the Ilograph home page got a much-needed refresh. It uses iframes to embed the actual Ilograph app to render all the demos. Check it out!

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Hi everyone, Here’s what’s new this Fall for Ilograph. I’d like to start by again thanking everyone for their amazing feedback and suggestions; your feedback helps me know exactly what features to prioritize. In fact, all of the improvements mentioned below were explicitly recommended by you! Here is …

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August was a busy month for Ilograph. Closed beta is nearing completion and adoption has been strong. The direct feedback you have given has been extremely valuable. Thank you to everyone who has been in touch! Additionally, the amazing diagrams you all have created have helped highlight strengths and expose bugs and …

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Good diagrams facilitate understanding. That’s their primary purpose. Information about a system can be conveyed in many ways, but the goal of a diagram is to help others understand a system. In order to facilitate this understanding, Ilograph diagrams now support guided walkthroughs. Using Ilograph’s walkthroughs, …

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This is part 5 of a series of posts on the Ilograph diagramming language (IDL). In part 3, we looked at the Ilograph resource tree. The resource tree defines your organization’s resources, and these resources are then used in perspectives. In this post, we’ll explore the intermediate topic of resource …

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Big news: the Ilograph private beta begins soon! Sign up at the bottom the homepage if you haven’t already. It’s been a lot of work to get here, but I’m excited to get Ilograph into your hands. Ilograph gives you the power to create diagrams unlike any before, and I eagerly look forward to seeing what everyone …

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This is part 4 of a series of posts on the Ilograph diagramming language (IDL). In part 3, we looked at the Ilograph resource tree. As discussed there, the resource tree not only helps organize resources, but it enables context nodes in perspectives.

There are multiple perspectives in an Ilograph, but only one …

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This is part 3 of a series of posts on the Ilograph diagramming language (IDL). If you haven’t already, please see the introduction to the IDL in part 1 and the IDL spec in part 2. This post covers Ilograph resources in more depth. Resources are the building blocks of an Ilograph; they define the …

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This is part 2 of a series of posts on the Ilograph diagramming language (IDL). If you haven’t already, please see the introduction to the IDL in part 1. This post contains the current specification for the IDL; in part 3, we’ll look at some more advanced features. Note: this spec was last updated on …

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