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

Hello.

Why aren't these templates available for regular (non-365) version of Visio 2016 Pro?

Answer 2

Many new features are Office 365 only features. You can see more information about what is included in Office 2016 stand alone vs Office 365 on the page here.