First Impressions: Inspiration & Digital Diagrams

1) What went well or not well?
Coming up with content for my Inspiration diagram was easy, and I enjoyed parts of the layout process. I did, however, find some parts of the process more tedious than expected. I also found it frustrating that some parts of the design process were not intuitive; because of this, I spent more time than I wished having to ask questions or poking around on different menus to find what was needed. More explicit written directions would have been helpful for tasks like saving/exporting the file as a .jpg and how to upload it to our personal websites since it was the first time we had done that.

2) How will you use this tool in your professional practice and/or instruction with students?
While this tool can create fun and appealing diagrams, I don't expect that I would use it often to create diagrams that I would distribute to students. Instead, I would be more likely to use it as an assignment in which students would be asked to create their own diagrams or webs to organize content for a project or paper.

3) What will you do differently next time?
I would come prepared with the exact content I wanted to input into the diagram/web, and I would have my links ready before starting. This would make the process go more quickly, instead of creating and editing the content at the same time as I was designing it.