What software helps in application design?

Question

Programming

Hello!
We are refactoring a fairly large application.
Tired on paper to draw a diagram of the application. Are there any specialized applications?

Answer 1

It all depends on your specific needs.
Judging by the fact that you were provided only with paper, the management and customers are not particularly demanding. Therefore, you can use any editor that can draw diagrams. For example Visio. The same UML is supported there, plus you can deliver sets of shapes, for example, under the Archimate notation.
There are more professional tools. Sparx EnterpriseArchitect, for example.
Some development environments have extensions that allow you to reverse engineer your code. You can automatically build class diagrams of existing code, for example.

Answer 2

VisualParadigm

Answer 3

Enterprise Architect, but not free. Highly recommend to see and touch

Answer 4

An extremely simple draw.io tool - in the style of the Microsoft Office suite.
Not a panacea, but perhaps in your case just a low entry / mastering threshold will be more important than the "coolness" of the instrument.
Another cool thing is www.invisionapp.com - there you can poke at any point of the sketch / diagram and attach a comment, a note, a task ... But this is more for interface matters. Although I know that many of the schemes in it are slandered. Free for 1 project.

Answer 5

I don’t know specifically for design, but for communication and collaboration, many use the Slack + Trello bundle.

Answer 6

BPwin business logic - designing
Erwin building a database based on abstract entities,
everything is lituha
, but you can also look at the root tracker

Answer 7

Lucidchart - software.
Conceptually, I like the visual language "Dragon" the most.

Answer 8

eclipse.org/modeling
mysql.com/products/workbench/design
ps: stupid toaster cleans links and doesn't talk about it

Answer 9

What kind of design? Functionality, architecture or interface?
For feature design, there's nothing better than good old MS Word and a keyboard.
For architecture design, Visio + UML is suitable, for the interface I personally use the cacoo.com service