About Bastian Schmitt

Bastian has an extensive Atlassian background and has worked for years in Atlassian license sales. Since 2019 he has been Product Marketing Manager of the draw.io Diagrams for Confluence / Jira apps. He is passionate about finding use cases to add value to the broad user base of draw.io.

Creating interactive big picture diagrams with draw.io

Visualization is most powerful when it helps us pack many words into fewer pictures in order to absorb information better, and to relate facts more efficiently. This is essential in the field of technical documentation and process flows. In spite of this, all too often the famous “big picture” becomes too big, and what [...]

By |2023-11-21T14:20:16+01:00November 23rd, 2023|draw.io|

Signifying associative entities in draw.io

Connections hold together what belongs together. Connections show sequences, or draw your attention to essential steps in a given process. But even more importantly, they can also save you time. For example: "You meet the person of your dreams. You gather all your courage and want to talk to them. At the last moment, [...]

By |2023-09-28T10:19:50+02:00September 28th, 2023|customization, draw.io, feature, learning|

My house is your house: invite guests to use draw.io with you in Confluence Cloud

Hospitality works globally. My house is your house, mi casa es su casa, ma maison est ta maison... you could go on forever. In a business environment, hospitality can mean collaborating effectively with external stakeholders. You want everyone to participate easily, and feel their voices are heard. Atlassian has listened and acted on this [...]

By |2023-09-21T10:43:01+02:00September 21st, 2023|Atlassian, Business, draw.io, integration, productivity|

Let’s bring it to the table – the draw.io Table feature for Confluence and Jira

Why should you stop to read a blog post about tables in draw.io? After all, Confluence has its own table functionality, right? You're probably more excited about creating stunning diagrams and energizing whiteboards! And we get it! That being said, while you might not purchase draw.io for its table features, there are some compelling [...]

By |2023-07-12T10:10:29+02:00June 1st, 2023|customization, draw.io, feature|

A draw.io customer use-case – Use connectors on an advanced level

To me, the most beautiful blog posts start from conversations with you - our users. Today, we're talking about customizing connection points, inspired by a question we received from a customer in a recent web demo: Dealing with standardized connection points In draw.io, I always use floating connectors (https://youtu.be/xM04I-WVXlE), if possible, as they allow me the [...]

By |2023-07-04T15:07:21+02:00April 6th, 2023|draw.io, use cases|

I 🧡 UX Diagrams – Create user flow diagrams in Confluence

This blog is part of our I 🧡 draw.io series, which highlights our users' stories about why they love draw.io. Follow us on social media where we are sharing more tips, tricks, and best practices from the draw.io community. Helping designers visualize draw.io's versatile diagramming helps many software teams working [...]

By |2023-04-26T21:42:01+02:00October 13th, 2022|draw.io, learning, productivity|

Strategic communications in Confluence and how diagramming can help

Born out of crisis situations like the Three Mile Island incident, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was created to coordinate disaster response across the USA. FEMA is charged with protecting the country when disaster strikes, but how does FEMA communicate? FEMA uses draw.io For example, suppose there is a [...]

By |2022-10-20T08:54:37+02:00August 25th, 2022|Atlassian, draw.io, productivity|

Webinar: Flowchart Best Practices and Q&A Session

You won’t want to be left out of our very first, informative, and action-packed draw.io webinar, where we’ll spill a big box-full of pro tips for faster creation of flowcharts and building more impactful diagrams of all kinds. And we’ll explain how it’s all seamlessly integrated with Confluence Cloud so you can safely, securely, [...]

By |2021-07-14T15:22:09+02:00June 28th, 2021|draw.io, learning, use cases|