Five Rules for Better UML Diagrams

21 February 2012 No Comment

Geert Bellekens proposes five rules to draw better Unified Modeling Language diagrams. The best practices discussed in this blog post are

to avoid large diagrams with too many items
avoid any two lines in your diagram crossing each other
lines in a diagram should go only horizontal or vertical with only right angles
parent elements are higher then the child elements in generalization or realization hierarchies
diagrams should be nice and clean