UML stands for Unified Modeling Language which is used in object oriented software engineering. Although typically used in software engineering it is a rich language that can be used to model an application structures, behavior and even business processes. There are 14 UML diagram types to help you model these behavior. They can be divided into two main categories structure diagrams and behavioral diagrams. All 14 UML diagram types are listed below with examples, brief introduction to [...]

This is the only Flowchart guide you will ever need. Creately blog and the website has some really awesome articles covering various things related to flowcharts like Meanings of flowchart symbols, how to use swim lanes in flowcharts, flowchart best practices , case studies and many more. This blog post will simply gather all that information and present them in a logical way . Since this will be a somewhat long post I added sections to [...]

The diagramming community is gaining steam and we are fine tuning the features to make it more awesome. If you’re creating public diagrams make sure to rate them as well as diagrams submitted by other users. The objective is to filter out the best diagrams so other users can benefit from them. It sure is much easier to come up with this post now since diagrams are automatically selected for me . So below are [...]

I hope you had fun using our simple Gantt chart drawing tools and your Creately experience is going to get even better with the launch of Creately Diagramming Community this week. While we are working on those things Creately users have created some awesome diagrams and now is the time to highlight the best of them. Below are our top five community diagrams of the week. 5. Event Planning Website Flowchart First up is a [...]

Last Friday was community day at Creately and we took some time to go through thousands of diagrams created by our users. We came across some great diagrams and promoted them via rating them and sharing them in various social networks. Creativity shown by some of the users were pretty amazing. Below are the top five diagrams of the week and you can view them easily using the Creately diagram viewer. 5. Gaming Community Use [...]