About Emily Williams

With a background in languages and education technology, Emily is passionate about the user being at the heart of written content and empowering people to find the info they need to learn and succeed. She is now the Technical Writer for draw.io.

Create UML deployment diagrams in draw.io

UML deployment diagrams show the architecture of a particular system. They serve to highlight the relationships between the system’s software and hardware components. You can build UML deployment diagrams quickly and easily in draw.io. We’ll take a look at how below: Try it free Why build your deployment diagrams in [...]

By |2024-01-17T11:42:09+01:00January 18th, 2024|draw.io, feature, learning|

Add draw.io diagrams into Confluence page templates

This blogpost is a follow-on from Leverage your draw.io user experience with custom templates - please read this first before diving into this blogpost, as you will need to create your custom draw.io templates in Confluence before you create a Confluence page template! Your one-stop shop for templates You should [...]

By |2024-01-08T17:50:51+01:00January 11th, 2024|Atlassian, customization, draw.io, learning, productivity, use cases|

Game Design’s Chaos Compass: draw.io

Andy has been taking us through his initial process of idea and character creation for game design. To get up to speed, you can read his previous blogposts here: From Chaos to Clarity: Conceptualizing Your Short Game Crafting Memorable Characters: From Chaos to Clarity Refining Story Plots and Mechanics for Your Short Game [...]

By |2023-12-14T15:41:44+01:00December 21st, 2023|customization, draw.io, learning, use cases|

Refining Story Plots and Mechanics for Your Short Game

Andy has been taking us through his initial process of idea and character creation for game design. To get up to speed, you can read his previous blogposts here: From Chaos to Clarity: Conceptualizing Your Short Game Crafting Memorable Characters: From Chaos to Clarity Introduction The game concept has evolved [...]

By |2024-02-27T14:56:23+01:00December 14th, 2023|customization, draw.io, learning, use cases|

Crafting Memorable Characters: From Chaos to Clarity

In his last blogpost, Andy took us through the initial stage of gathering rough ideas, and starting to organize these into a comprehensive brainstorm. In the second blogpost of the series, he will show us character creation and development; giving your player character and ancillary/secondary characters background and context, to bring them to life. [...]

By |2024-02-27T14:56:01+01:00December 7th, 2023|customization, draw.io, learning, use cases|

From Chaos to Clarity: Conceptualizing Your Short Game

Andrew Phillip Gonzalez is Co-Founder of Confused Wizards and a dedicated game designer, with a distinctive flair for storytelling. Specializing in narrative and level design, he crafts immersive narratives to captivate players. Beyond his passion for game design, Andrew is an avid film enthusiast, weaving cinematic elements into his innovative projects. In this blogpost [...]

By |2024-02-27T14:55:18+01:00November 30th, 2023|customization, draw.io, learning, use cases|

Navigating the maze: how diagrams guide new hospital staff

Upside down, round and round… When you’re a seasoned member of staff sauntering (or more likely speed-walking) through the endless corridors and departments, and hopping between floors, it’s easy to forget where you once started: trying to find a particular ward, or the right floor - hospitals are a complex maze when you’re just [...]

By |2024-03-04T11:46:04+01:00November 2nd, 2023|Business, customization, learning, onboarding|

How draw.io and SoftComply help Confluence teams build an ISO-compliant QMS

The gold standard The world of medical device compliance is a tricky one to navigate. At the top level, you have regulations from the FDA in the US, and the MDR/IVDR in Europe. Broken down, you’re then looking at sector-specific requirements like 21 CFR Part 820 in the US, and ISO 13485 + ISO [...]

By |2023-12-04T13:02:06+01:00October 26th, 2023|Atlassian, Business, draw.io, learning, security|

3 tips to improve patient workflows with draw.io

Optimizing your patient workflows If you’ve been working with the same patient workflows for a while, consider: when was the last time you reflected on them? Are they still meeting your teams' needs, as well as those of your patients? As a healthcare provider, it’s important to re-evaluate your patient workflows regularly, and to [...]

By |2023-11-20T13:01:20+01:00October 19th, 2023|Atlassian, productivity|