While some of our recent posts walked you through the art of wireframing and its benefits, have you ever wondered why we’re going on and on about wireframes? Well the reason is rather simple. Wireframing is a valuable stage of any web design project, and now let’s take a step forward to understand why it is so important. Wireframes are blue prints that illustrate the elements of a web site. Creating a wireframe gives the [...]

From flowcharts to UML diagrams, we’ve offered quite a bit of important reading material for you out there. Our last post focused on wireframes and this present one also revolves around this really useful tool. To start things off we thought we’d focus a bit on the uses and benefits of wireframes. You see, for the layman, the topic of wireframes may relate to just web designers and software developers. However, the fact of the [...]

There’s a reason why we’ve implied (above) that both wireframes and mockups share a close relationship. But before (we explain, and) you get your brain all jittery with definitions, remember that figuring out what a wireframe and a mockup is a simple deal. The former is basically a skeleton of an interface minus the aesthetic details. The latter, on the other hand, is a model of the web site in real life complete with fonts, [...]

While the Dev team’s been busy on the next major release in a week’s time (which will include brand new collaboration features), I’ve compiled a massive set of easy-start templates that you can dig into right now. We know you love Creately’s easy-start templates, so the whole team got together a fortnight ago for Creately Diagram Day and came up with tons of new diagrams. Everyone worked all day to create great looking and useful templates especially [...]

Its been a year since we came out of Beta and launched Creately to the world. I know its not a long time, but for the team here at Creately, its a moment to be proud of as we pause to think about how far we’ve come since the early days pitching the Creately idea to investors and potential customers almost 3 years ago. To celebrate, today we’re announcing the biggest, baddest release of the Creately [...]