Visual Workflow

Total, invisible control with visual workflow software

At its best, visual workflow is a type of workflow management application that is both visual and invisible. Although that seems like a paradox, it isn't: a visual workflow manager shows you the anatomy of a project in a visual, graphical display, while working invisibly behind the scene to track all the details of project management. For creative professionals especially — visually oriented people — visual workflow makes sense, providing a graphical, mapped view of a project's connections and relationships, and at the same time transparently keeping track of files, applications, time, and cost. Unlike most workflow management systems, a true visual workflow manager emphasizes pictorial presentation for clear, intuitive understanding of project files and their relationships and potential hazards. For a true visual workflow suite, serious design professionals are finding the answer to their project management challenges in one unique, simple, elegant interface from GridIron software.

Visual workflow software from GridIron for professional designers

GridIron Flow, the world's first visual workflow suite, gives professional design individuals and teams a clear visual understanding of the project, as well as immediate easy access to every piece of the project. For these designers using GridIron software, the headaches of a design project — overwritten files, disappearing assets, version nightmares — are things of the past. Instead, designers are finding that GridIron has built controls for all these potential pitfalls into the visual workflow manager — for instance, Flow warns you if you try to delete a file accidentally, manages assets so that you don't have to, and saves every change to a file automatically and invisibly in case you need to revert to it later. With GridIron's visual workflow manager, you have easy control over the project without having to put time and effort into the administrative details.

Visual workflow features are paramount in GridIron software

In GridIron's visual workflow manager, Flow, the goal is to keep designers and design teams informed — visually, intuitively, and effortlessly. This objective is achieved with the most innovative features in the business, such as workflow maps, which display the 30,000-foot view of the project. Another GridIron feature is visual versioning, a complete graphical history of your file in thumbnails that show each exact change you made. Visual searching is GridIron's way of searching the project, portraying search results in a context map that displays how the file you found is related to other files and how it fits into the big picture. In GridIron's visual workflow manager, visual keys are everywhere — in workflow and share mapping, in searching and versioning, in asset tracking — and even in the Flow flash panel that you can install in Adobe CS4 as your creative hub for access anywhere in a snap. With features like these, you can see how GridIron's visual workflow software is transforming designers' lives.

Learn more about GridIron's transformative visual workflow software here.