Future Consideration

Create animated flow in Lucidchart

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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
February 14, 2024
31 replies
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shirad

Hello,

I am trying to find a way to create animated flows like it appears here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mendix_aws-cloudcomputing-mendix-activity-7107695715962740736-vkX_/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

So far, I couldn’t do it in Lucid or find any online tutorial to replicate the same. Draw.io seems able to do so using the ‘Flow animation’ property.

Thanks.

kellsworth

Thanks everyone for the thoughts here. This is an interesting area to us and something we could consider, but from a technical standpoint there are a few different ways we might want to go about it if we did. I’m curious from this group is anyone has thoughts on how animated flows would be most helpful?

When you are walking someone through a flow live (do you want to see step by step, or everything animating at once and you just talk over it in steps?)
When someone is going to review a doc on their own (does this help them to be able to interpret what is happening without someone walking them through it?)

@shirad - I appreciate your detailed description above. I’m trying to make sure I understand exactly what aspects of the animation allow for “Ensure different personas can view the big picture of complex architecture, easily”. Said differently - what is it about the way the animation works (or that you want it to work) that helps make things easier to understand.

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Kelsey Gaag
Lucidite
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
October 21, 2024

@James D Thank you for the additional feedback!

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jamielaird
Forum|Forum|10 months ago
March 20, 2025

I would also find this functionality very useful. Simple animations on connector lines are a very effective way of showing data movement. Here’s an example I recently saw posted on LinkedIn:

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CarlosPrado
Forum|Forum|10 months ago
March 20, 2025

@Kelsey Gaag Do you know if there is a possible date for this animation creation feature to be available in Lucidchart?

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Ambar D
Lucid community team
Forum|Forum|10 months ago
March 24, 2025

Hi @jamielaird, thank you for your feedback and for showing a great example!

Thank you @CarlosPrado for your comment here as well. While we don’t have a date or time frame to offer, I would like to shed some light on the “future consideration” status of this feature request.

This status means that while the product development team isn’t currently working on this, they’re still interested in hearing about what you’d like to see implemented and they may revisit this in the future. Upvoting this post, and if you’re willing, adding detailed feedback are great methods of showing that this feature is important to you!

We encourage everyone to continue voicing their ideas in this community. If you’d like to learn more, I recommend checking out this post: