yEd Graph Editor

What do you like best?

Simple and easy to use, The design is straight forward for anyone who is new to the application to quickly get app to speed. It also generated great quality images. Its offer multiple layout options that cater for most needs for designs of technical documents like Swim lanes and flow chats and tree maps. The options to export to multiple formats also make this a great tool as you can export to a pdf for easy printing of png and other image formats that can be easily embedded into different document formats. The pallet for yEd comes with most images required for designed including servers , representations for databased and standard representations used for designing flow chats.

What do you dislike?

I do not have major issues that i can note of that i may dislike about the application, on the minor issues , i believe the colour pallets for changing colours for object can be improved to make it more usable. The can also introduce previews to changes made in the preferences editor to make it faster when making changes to your personal preferences. Introduction of standard option for dark mode will be a great addition to the application.Making background changes to colour to get dark mode effect is not user friendly to most users as it takes time.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you are into technology services this is a great tool for providing quality design diagrams as part of your documentation for your clients. You will get high quality diagrams and get to deliver the documentation faster due to the ease of use of the software.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We use yEd for designing application design diagrams and flow diagrams for technical solutions that we will be working with.Examples are System architecture designs , database designs and process flow diagrams