Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

So, if anyone wants to make diagramming software and is looking for a niche, there's something used in quality improvement called a "driver diagram".

These are very simple.

https://qi.elft.nhs.uk/resource/driver-diagrams/

http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Tools/Driver-Diagram.aspx

The problem is that you want something that a small team can collaborate on; that allows them to control where it's stored and viewable; that works with baffling NHS bureaucracy; and is very easy to use. You want something that allows actions to be attached and completed. And you might want to allow it to link to other documents. (For example, "we tried change idea 1, and we didn't see any improvement, here's the data").

The other problem is that most software will apply colour vertically to a column, but you probably don't want that. You want something that allows horizontal stripes.

Vertical: https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.hhpwTzkH7yvSFeBY61hM7wHaF...

Horizontal: https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.i9BwtTbgKV-UGlO5675QtgHaF...

Horizontal: https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.4oy4eY78Ik4sl5r2ygFpvgHaE...

There's something called LifeQI which is good but a bit spendy and it covers a lot more detail than just driver diagrams.

Oh man, someone showed me this site a few years ago and I never could find it again. Glad it popped back up

Thanks for sharing! Sequence diagrams are awesome.

I've used websequencediagrams.com and PlantUML to create them before, and honestly I much prefer using an open source CLI tool for this than a closed source service, even if it's free to use. The day the site goes offline all my Git versioned diagrams would be useless.

If the authors are reading: have you considered releasing a standalone CLI tool? It could even be open sourcing the site itself and packaging it as a Docker image. If not, exposing an API like wsd.com has would be very useful.

Cool!

Sequence diagrams are by far the most effective way to communicate system behavior.

These, and boxes-and-lines diagrams to communicate component relationships, are all that's necessary to document a system of arbitrary complexity.

There is a desktop version that works off-line: https://www.ilograph.com/desktop/index.html