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Flowchart design. Flowchart symbols, shapes, stencils and icons

A flowchart is a type of diagram that represents an algorithm, workflow or process, showing the steps as boxes of various kinds - flowchart symbols, and their order by connecting them with arrows.
Mavericks have always desired to stand apart and gorgeous design is the recipe for that. Any business graphic document will be more understandable if will use an expository color scheme for their parts. Flowchart design makes versatile presenting and explaining of the process and gives a fresh view that distinguishes it from black and white flowcharts on a paper. Workflow diagram or process flow diagrams become more understandable to ordinary people when it use minimum symbols and special signs.
The best design can be accomplished by starting from any of the suitable Conceptdraw examples. Pick one of them and begin to input proper text into each Flowchart symbols and shapes. Apply less colors in the document and don't turn into rainbow your diagram, three or four will be enough, also note that business process flowchart may not contain bright color hues. The next clue is to use identical colors for same flowchart shape types.
Business Process Modeling with ConceptDraw
Business Process Modeling with ConceptDraw "Business Process Diagrams" Solution

Chart Examples

Easy charting software comes with beautiful chart templates and examples. This makes it easy to create professional charts without prior experience.

ERD Symbols and Meanings

Crow's foot notation is used in Barker's Notation, Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM) and information engineering. Crow's foot diagrams represent entities as boxes, and relationships as lines between the boxes. Different shapes at the ends of these lines represent the cardinality of the relationship.
The Chen's ERD notation is still used and is considered to present a more detailed way of representing entities and relationships.
To create an ERD, software engineers mainly turn to dedicated drawing software, which contain the full notation resources for their specific database design - ERD symbols and meanings. CS Odessa has released an all-inclusive Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) solution for their powerful drawing program, ConceptDraw PRO.
How to Build an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
How to Build an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

Business Process Flowchart Symbols

The business process flowchart symbols used for business process mapping are predefined by Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and actually have their roots in the data processing diagrams and programming flow charts. Business Process flowchart symbols provide drawing business process flowcharts, diagrams and maps of any complexity.

Basic Flowchart Symbols and Meaning

Flowchart Symbols and Meaning - Provides a visual representation of basic flowchart symbols and their proposed use in professional workflow diagram, standard process flow diagram and communicating the structure of a well-developed web site, as well as their correlation in developing on-line instructional projects. See flowchart's symbols by specifics of process flow diagram symbols and workflow diagram symbols.
How to Build a Flowchart
How to Build a Flowchart

Chart Templates

Easy charting software comes with beautiful chart templates and examples. This makes it easy to create professional charts without prior experience.

Ice Hockey Rink Dimensions

Meeting ice hockey rules one should learn ice hockey rink terms, lines, zones etc. ConceptDraw PRO is an advanced drawing software that allows you produce ice hockey rink depiction of any complexity, from simple sketch drawing to detailed one as on example below.

Flow Chart Symbols

Flowcharts are used in designing and documenting simple processes or programs. Like other types of diagrams, they help visualize what is going on and thereby help understand a process, and perhaps also find flaws, bottlenecks, and other less-obvious features within it. There are many different types of flowcharts, and each type has its own repertoire of boxes and notational conventions.
Flowchart diagrams consists of symbols of process, decision, data and document, data base, termination or initiation processes, processing loops and conditions. To create an drawn flowchart use professional flowchart maker of ConceptDraw PRO.

Gane Sarson Diagram

The vector stencils library Gane-Sarson Notation from the solution Data Flow Diagrams contains specific symbols of the Gane-Sarson notation such as process symbol, connector symbol, jump symbol for ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software. The Data Flow Diagrams solution is contained in the Software Development area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
The vector stencils library "Mac OS X Lion user interface" contains 52 UI design elements.
Use it for designing Mac OS X Lion graphic user interface (GUI) of software for Apple computers in the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Graphic User Interface solution from the Software Development area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Title Bar
Title Bar, title bar,
Title Bar Inactive
Title Bar Inactive, title bar,
Window
Window, window,
Window Inactive
Window Inactive, window,
Window Title Bar
Window Title Bar, window,
Window Title Bar (Inactive)
Window Title Bar (Inactive), window,
Full Screen Button
Full Screen Button, full screen button,
Exit Full Screen Button
Exit Full Screen Button, exit full screen button,
Window without Bar
Window without Bar, window,
Window (Narrow Toolbar)
Window (Narrow Toolbar), window,
Window Inactive (Narrow Toolbar)
Window Inactive (Narrow Toolbar), window,
Panel (Hud Window)
Panel (Hud Window), panel,
Panel (Hud Window) (Inactive)
Panel (Hud Window) (Inactive), panel,
Box 1
Box 1, box,
Box 2
Box 2, box,
Field
Field, field,
List View 1
List View 1, list view,
List View 2
List View 2, list view,
Scroll Bar Vertical
Scroll Bar Vertical, scroll bar,
Scroll Bar Horizontal
Scroll Bar Horizontal, scroll bar,
Main Menu
Main Menu, main menu,
Menu Bar
Menu Bar, menu bar,
Menu
Menu, menu,
Vertical Line
Vertical Line,
Horizontal Line
Horizontal Line,
Apple Menu
Apple Menu, Apple menu,
Arrow mark
Arrow mark, arrow,
Combo Box
Combo Box, combo box,
Pop Up Menu
Pop Up Menu, pop up menu,
Text Field
Text Field, text input field,
Count Button
Count Button, count button,
Search Field
Search Field, search field,
Check Box
Check Box, check box,
Check Box
Check Box, check box,
Group of Check Boxes
Group of Check Boxes, group of check boxes,
Radio Button
Radio Button, radio button,
Radio Button
Radio Button, radio button,
Group of Radio Buttons
Group of Radio Buttons, group of radio buttons,
Linear Slider (round thumb)
Linear Slider (round thumb), linear slider,
Linear Slider (directional thumb)
Linear Slider (directional thumb), linear slider,
Circular Slider
Circular Slider, circular slider,
Color Well
Color Well, color well,
Relevance Indicator
Relevance Indicator, relevance indicator,
Rating Indicator
Rating Indicator, rating indicator,
Indeterminate Progress Bar
Indeterminate Progress Bar, progress bar,
Determinate Progress Bar
Determinate Progress Bar, progress bar,
Continuous Capacity Indicator
Continuous Capacity Indicator, capacity indicator,
Discrete Capacity Indicator
Discrete Capacity Indicator, capacity indicator,
Discrete Capacity Indicator (yellow)
Discrete Capacity Indicator (yellow), capacity indicator,
Discrete Capacity Indicator (red)
Discrete Capacity Indicator (red), capacity indicator,
Asynchronous Progress Indicator
Asynchronous Progress Indicator, progress indicator,
Circular Progress Indicator
Circular Progress Indicator, progress indicator,