Swimlanes are a way for users to visually represent activities and the roles that play them. Essentially they define the participants of a process as well as the activities that will be undertaken by each of those participants in the course of the entire process flow.
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After launching your Workflow Designer, you will see that, by default, Participant 1 has already been created for you. Double-click on the Participant 1 label and in the resulting dialog box, ; type "Requestor" in place of "Participant 1" in the Name field. Once done, click on the OK button.
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To create a new swimlane, click on the Participant element icon on the element menu found on your left toolbar; your the left side of the design pane. Your mouse cursor should change to the Participant element icon now. Click twice on the workspace to add two more swimlanes.
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