Is anybody doing more designerly diagrams in Lucidchart?

Hi ​@Zoe H102, thank you for posting in the Lucid Community! 

There are a few resources that I believe would be helpful: 

• Regarding diagrams on complex topics, I highly recommend our Visualizing Complex Diagrams course in our Trainings Labs. Through this course, you will be able to bring clarity to your diagrams no matter the subject.
• Additionally, Lucid offers a wide Salesforce shape library and templates. This blog article gives more context behind those.
• Finally, here are our Salesforce architecture diagram templates. 

I hope these are helpful! Please let us know if you have any additional questions or thoughts to share.

Cheers!

Hi ​@Zuzia S – thanks for your response. I’m not looking for assistance in designing diagrams (and I actually have been part of the teams designing those Salesforce shapes – and all of those Salesforce data model templates in your system were designed by me!) – however I was hoping to start a thread here to talk about the graphic design and visual aesthetics angle of diagram design… using branding and shapes/colors to create beautiful easy-to-read diagrams. I know Lucidchart excels at the concept of diagram creation in general – but the defaults are often more utilitarian, and I’m curious about others who like me, in the course of our work, go the extra mile to brand our diagrams visually and give them a designerly touch.  😊 More of a community graphic design thread than a how-to-make-diagrams thread.

Love these thanks for sharing your work. I’ve also used Lucidchart extensively for diagrams focused on flow and circulation, especially when trying to simplify complex systems into something clean and readable.

I’ve found the grid structure, alignment tools, and ability to maintain consistent styling really helpful for communicating process logic without overwhelming the viewer. It’s great to see others pushing Lucidchart beyond basic diagrams and treating it more like an information design tool.

Would definitely be interested in seeing more examples or learning where others are sharing Lucidchart design inspiration.

​@Zoe H102 Wow great work! I LOVE branding my designs in Lucid. Visual language is a huge aspect of diagrams that are easily readable & digest-able at first glance. One thing that may be of interest to you if you do not do this already is to have your design scanned for color contrast accessibility - this helps make it readable for more people 😌 Another thing I often do is to use hover text from the conditional formatting panel to make it even more readable for people with color blindness rather than relying just on color coding. 

I really love creating & important custom shapes/icons into my custom shape library and then dragging and dropping the library onto the canvas so I can easily pull out those elements as reusable shapes (also very helpful to do this to make a starting point for other diagram designers in your org that could benefit from using the same color scheme/iconography!) Oh and the Brandfetch integration is also helpful for this to easily pull in branded colors & company logos!!