New Visio Wireframes: Bring your products to life!

Question

Update 11/13: This feature is now available to current channel worldwide audience under Visio Online Plan 2 in the Desktop client with build 8625.2000 or later. 

Update 8/30: Good news! This feature is now available for Insider Slow audience. Please try it out and let us know what you think.

Hello Insiders,

My name is Shakun Grover and I am a Program Manager on the Microsoft Visio team. 

We are excited to announce the availability of brand new Website and Mobile App Wireframe Templates in Visio! Now you can bring any project or product idea to life using the modern Visio wireframes, which can help you quickly visualize your website’s or app’s functionality and content.

What can you do?

• Sleek low fidelity mockups: Create quick mockups for your product or feature with ease using the new Website and Mobile App wireframe templates. There are pre-packaged containers, UI controls, media, navigation shapes, and more for you to use!

• Smart Shapes: Smart controls, like range slider and progress bar, let you customize values. Right-click Menu Actions give you options to change states, visual styles, and more.

Availability

If you are an Office 365 subscriber with Visio Pro for O365, you’ll start seeing the new wireframe templates depending on your Insider level:

Insider Fast: The new wireframe templates are now available in Insider Fast Version 1708 (Build 8424.1000) or later. 

Insider Slow: The new wireframe templates are now available in Version 1708 (Build 8431.2046) or later!

Current Channel: The new wireframe templates are now available to current channel worldwide audience under Visio Online Plan 2 in the Desktop client with build 8625.2000 or later. 

These new templates are available in all languages supported in Visio.

Get started

You can find wireframe templates by navigating as below: 

File > New > Templates > Software and Database (category) > Wireframe - Mobile App

File > New > Templates > Software and Database (category) > Wireframe - Website

Scenarios to Try

1. Use Mobile App wireframe starter diagrams - Add, delete, update shapes

2. Use Website wireframe starter diagrams - Add, delete, update shapes

3. Start with a blank drawing in mobile app or website wireframe template. Navigate to the stencil for containers and drag a mobile frame/internet browser container to the canvas. Further add controls and other shapes from stencils to the wireframe. Use control points and right-click menu actions to modify state or visual style of the shapes.

Known Issues

Below are some of the known localization issues in some languages other than English and we are in the process of fixing them:

1. Text in some shapes might overlap or overflow. Quick workaround: Change font size of text or increase size of shapes.
2. Layout for some starter diagrams might not look aligned. Quick workaround: Change font size of text, increase size of shapes or rearrange shapes.
3. Some strings might not show localized in some languages.

Feedback

Did you hit any rough spots or have suggestions for improvement? We'd love to hear from you! Feel free to respond to this post with your comments and questions or email us at tellvisio\[at\]microsoft\[dot\]com and let us know what you think.

Thank You!

Shakun Grover and Team

Answer 1

HI,

May I know where to find the two new templates?

My Visio build version:

Viso pro 2016 version 1709 (Build: 8528.2139)

Answer 2

Hi,

I am Office 365 subscriber but i cannot see this template in my Visio 2016 with version 1708 (Build 8431.2107).

What could be the issue? Or is it not available for my version now?

Regards

Naqash

Answer 3

or email us at *** Email address is removed for privacy *** and let us know what you think.

Hi Shakun:

Since you are a visio PM maybe you can answer a question.

Since Visio sold out to MS and became a MS product it has been called part of Office.  So why is the 2016 version so hard to install along with other Office products? 

Why is visio NOT inlcuded in even a single Office bundle offer?

PS: they automagically strip out email addresses (for your protection), you have to break them up with spaces to slip through, ie a space before and after the @ char.

Answer 4

I have the same issue. I am not an Insider Fast or Slow subscriber but I own the offline version of Visio Professional 2016. I am on build 9001 but I still don't have access to the new Wireframes Mobile and Web. Please can you provide instructions on how to download or add these?

Answer 5

Hi Shakun,

I have the same problem as Naqash Ahmed, who replied on November 8, 2017.

These new Visio wireframes are not visible in my version of Visio 2016 which is 1708 (Build 8431.2107).

I hope you can help me solve this problem.

Thank you very much in advance.

Best regards.

Filip