I downloaded and opened the Design Stencils for Visio. In Visio 2003, they don't actually open as stencils but rather as Visio docs. I tried using the Document Stencil feature to turn them into stencils, but this didn't work. Any suggestions?

Good catch, thanks! Yes, when we made the 1.0 version of this set we didn't have a copy of Visio installed so we knew we were issuing "beta" versions of the images that weren't true stencils or library items.

We have received some help from the community and I believe we'll be able to make an updated (version 1.1) of the kit available in a short while.

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I downloaded and opened the Design Stencils for Visio. In Visio 2003, they don't actually open as stencils but rather as Visio docs. I tried using the Document Stencil feature to turn them into stencils, but this didn't work. Any suggestions?

great stencil set although there appears to be a problem with the third carousel stencil in the left column. When attempting to drag it to the canvas, the individual elements are selected rather than the whole grouped carousel. This is in the Omnigraffle version. Have not tried the others.

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neil

Hello,

I apologize if I overlooked this in a previous post, or if I am just ignorant on the subject: We use Adobe InDesign CS2 for wireframing. Can these stencils be imported? Thanks in advance.

-Brian

What formats can InDesign import? Perhaps the PDF or PNG versions of the stencils will work? Please try and let us know. We are interested in supporting as many plausible platforms as possible.

Hi

There are PDF and SVG version of the wireframes at http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes/

These can be opened as vectors in Adobe Illustrator. The OmniGraffle version is vector too, if you happen to own it.

Not sure which formats Fireworks supports though...

HTH,

Isao

Does anyone have experience bringing this pattern library into InDesign as library elements?
When I try to open the SVA files in InDesign or Illustrator I get uneditable versions of the components.

I've used these stencils extensively in Omnigraffle and find them so helpful!
I'd LOVE to also be able to use them from within InDesign.

Thank you for any advice!

Amy

Er, rather SVG, not SVA.

[...] we'd like to work with people who are more expert in creating stencils or library items for those other apps to figure out how to adapt them more usefully.

Speaking of other apps, some of my colleagues used PowerPoint to quickly mock a UI up. It’s quick, dirty, and it can be opened by client’s computer. The PNG widgets are useful in this regard, but, due to screen resolution, they need to be resized down every single time the image is imported.

To work around this, I created some widgets using PowerPoint’s drawing tool. It’s not the most fluid to draw with, but the end products are scalable, does the job well and can be skinned to look and feel like Yahoo’s pattern collection easily. I’d be delighted to work with you in adapting the design stencil kit into PPT.

These are great. I know in our Asia region most of our interaction designers and producers use Powerpoint for wireframes, so I'd love to fully adapt our stencil kit to this approach as well.