Alright, I'll be the first to admit 'The Org Chart Tool of the Future' might be a little dramatic. It's definitely not 'The Org Chart Creation Tool of the present' quite yet...
Org Owl (https://www.orgowl.com/) is the newest 'up and comer' in the org chart space. After talking with a couple potential users, and getting a lot of good feedback, I've decided to start building it! It will do everything you expect from an org chart tool as well as a few key features setting it apart from the rest:
• Ever curious what the org looked like when it was just 3 people?
Org Owl will have historic org charts based on a requested date/number of employees!
• Don't want your org chart to be public, but want employees to be able to view it live?
Org Owl will give users access to the chart based solely off a whitelisted domain in the email (me@mycompany.com would have access but tom@OtherCompany.com would not)!
• Things aren't always as simple as a 'Direct Report'? Excited to give the Party Planning Committee the credit they deserve?
Org Owl will allow a person to appear in multiple spots on any org chart!
I would love for feedback on the landing page, it could probably due to be a bit more verbose, but you can also check out the 'demo' / proof of concept here: https://www.orgowl.com/demo
Looking forward to hearing the communities thoughts!
Thanks,
Tom
Landing page looks pretty good.
I was having trouble scrolling (click drag) the org chart in the demo and the 90% - 110% zoom seemed off.
Would maybe be better if the demo chart auto-fit to the screen size.
Nice work.
Disclaimer,
I'm a dev, not a designer :)
Thanks for taking a look John. I can definitely see how the click & drag is frustrating (not the first person I've heard that from).
The 90% - 110% zoom is mostly just a work in progress, I need to work on rendering the cells differently once you get to too small of a size, but wanted to show that the zoom would be possible.
Autofitting the chart to the screen is a great idea, or at least centering the top cell and autofocusing to it.
Can't thank you enough for the feedback, hope to hear more from you soon!