What do you like best about Venngage?
I find Venngage an incredible resource to organize my mind, to see patterns, to identify new relationships in my data or ideas, and then to present them in a simple way. I really appreciate the huge array of options for shaping ideas -- I often start to understand my own thinking better just by choosing which template to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Venngage?
There are a lot of small things from a basic formatting perspective that would make venngage a lot easier to use -- e.g, it's extremely difficult to re-align a shape if you've rotated it (why won't it snap to a straight edge!); it would be helpful to be able to put an outline around a text box; the bullet/indent function is primitive; some fonts won't enable italics or bold or some variation. It would also be really helpful if there were existing different colour palettes to just click on with each template. And to be able to bend text into a curve.
I would also like to be able to treat the pages within one design as a "document" -- set a consistent formatting, add page numbers, etc.
I would also like to be able to edit photos a little bit -- like make fuzzy edges etc.
From a more "global" perspective, on one hand, venngage is far and above programs like the smart art within powerpoint from a complexity perspective -- e..,g it's pretty easy in venngage to enabled two way arrows, etc. -- but there are some "missing," non linear shapes -- as in, I find it hard to find a not rigid template for multiple inputs going into one sort of shared pot (like a funnel); and I often find myself looking for a way to present a more integrated model that isn't a venn intersection -- like a care model with multiple interconnected rings.
It would also be pretty cool if some of the functions within a design could be semi-automated -- like, if there were a mind map, to be able to click "add level" without having to add a new bubble manually.
I also very much appreciate the export options -- powerpoint and pdfs -- but the ppt is still a bit rusty and images sometimes export into a kind of ratty version of what they looked like in venngage.
But overall, I really value VG and use it every day, and it's significantly enabled my work to move to a new dimension. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.