Inspiration

Adding interactivity to your diagrams is a great way to engage your viewers, add depth and context to your documentation, and supplement your visuals with actionable next steps. Lucidchart makes this easy with several different tools—want to know which option is best for you? Read on to learn the differences between Hotspots, Actions, and Link Previews how they behave and how to use them effectively.  ActionsWith Actions, you can link to an external website or email, a page within the current Lucidchart document, or a different Lucidchart document. You can also use Actions to toggle layers and add conditional formatting rules. For a complete description of each of these options, please refer to the Add an Action or link to a shape in Lucidchart article from the Lucidchart Help Ce

Visualization is often most effective when it is simple and clean but sometimes elements of your diagrams might need a bit of extra detail or context. By creating a button in your diagram you and other viewers can easily click it to reveal that additional information then quickly hide it again to keep the diagram clear and easy to understand. For example I’ve used Lucidchart to create an office floor plan in which there is additional employee information corresponding to each seat assignment. This diagram can then serve as a resource for others in the office to understand more information about your workplace and the people who work there. Below I’ve created a seating area of an office floor plan including desks chairs and computer setups. Now I want to turn each chair object into a button which upon clicking will reveal additional information about the employee who sits there.