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I often have to do architecture diagrams and this usually involves Visio. Visio has design stuck in the past. It’s so amazingly clunky to use and even simple things like arranging or sizing shapes on a grid can be incredibly frustrating.

There’s a ton of shapes, but they are all inconsistent visually that mixing metaphors becomes a real mess. Search is terrible. I often find myself spending more just screwing around trying to get things laid out how I want than actually designing.

Figma isn’t really designed for this kind of thing but I find that with FigJam I can throw together really great flowcharts and infrastructure diagrams with really little effort. UML state diagrams and other things of that ilk are too much effort though.

Ultimately I work at a Microsoft shop so whatever I do in Figma ultimately ends up in Visio anyway but I find it faster to prototype in Figma and then adapt to Visio. (As frustrating as it is.)