Feature Request: Add Shapes Chevron Arrows

Hi @jmabrams, thanks for your feedback on this process and for taking the time to comment here - I’m glad that you found this post! We do receive a high volume of product feedback in this space, and our community team works to merge duplicate requests and capture popularity not only by upvotes but also by pageviews and activity within the thread. Then, the most popular requests are shared with our product development team regularly for their consideration - more details on that here. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us, but we’re not able to implement every single idea and submitting an idea does not guarantee that our development team will implement it. We commit to keeping you in the loop where we can, and in turn we ask for understanding that we see and hear you, even if we’re not able to implement every request.

However, as our community manager, I’m completely committed to making this a system that you feel confident in and will continue to use. It sounds like improved visibility and discoverability of existing requests would be useful here. Are there other changes on your mind that would make this more effective for you?

Its ridiculous to spend so much time to find a Chevron shape. Your executive should take a look at this thread. It takes years to add a simple request. Pathetic!

Hi @athandapani, 

Thank you for your reply. I apologize for the inconvenience that this has caused you. User feedback is very important to our product teams and the development of Lucid. The most popular requests are directly sent to our product development team every month, but, these ideas are still helpful to our team even if they are not top voted requests. Our product team has to prioritize various requests internally and externally, so it may take time for this one to be addressed -- more details on that here.

As a workaround, you can import a chevron shape into your library by following the directions in this Help Center article, or you can import a chevron image/png by following the instructions in this community post.
Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns.

Hi all!

Thanks for surfacing this request for chevron shapes. Lucid has recently put together a team dedicated to shape libraries and this improvement has been added to our backlog. I will follow up with this thread as I have updates. Looking forward to sharing some good news soon!

Morgan

Just came here after searching myself for most of the morning and giving up and going back to Powerpoint. Would expect them in Lucidchart and Lucidspark. 

Hi ​@jshearer, thank you for sharing your experience in this thread and I apologize for the inconvenience that this caused you. As a workaround, you can import a custom chevron shape into your library by following the directions in this Help Center article.

I also hope to emphasize that your feedback is incredibly important to us! This is the perfect place to share what you’d like to see in this experience and get your ideas in front of our product and development teams. I would also encourage you to upvote this post, as it helps to showcase which ideas are the most popular. 

For information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

Unfortunately this is what Lucidchart is lacking. There is a boring list of shapes. Sorry for using “boring” but I can’t find any other way to describe it because we can’t be creative when drawing our diagrams, see below screenshot from draw.io and you can see how we can create shapes that are completely non-standard. 

I would say not only these chevron arrows need to be added but also they should have the ability to be customised. Most diagram tools like draw.io have this yellow-coloured anchor points with which you can customise the shape further. I also think curved chevron arrows are just as important as straight ones. 

See this example from draw.io, notice how one shape can be customised to make completely new shapes using those yellow anchors: you can try it here: https://app.diagrams.net/

Hi ​@mohammad.norouzi, thank you for leaving your feedback on this topic! Your details about what you are hoping to see in this experience are incredibly helpful for our product team as they consider improvements and further developments to our products. 

How does this only have 12 upvotes?