Gliffy: share those boxes and arrows

September 5th, 2007 • Best sites, Internet

Now this is cool. Just spent the day brain-souping a new site with a few colleagues, and reached the point where we needed to work on individual sections. Problem is, we also needed to see what each of us were up to.

A quick Google, and up pops Gliffy. For years, I’ve been an OmniGraffle addict - for a Mac user, it’s the easiest way to rapidly map an idea or a web page. While Gliffy may not be quite a razor refined as ‘Graffle, it’s frighteningly easy to use, and comes with the not inconsiderable benefit of being sharable.

Sign up for a free account, log in, and you can create a new page in seconds. Boxes are all drag and drop, everything’s re-sizable, and nothing appears to glitch out. You can save your doodles into folders, or export stuff to jpeg for later digestion.

The $20 a year paid account may not bring major benefits for the casual user, but is laughably cheap if you’re a serious wireframer: paying the cash removes the limit of image uploads, and gets rid of the subscription nag-ad at the top of the frame.

Too many online collaboration tools are willfully obstructive: Gliffy seems to be a genuine peach.

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