Dan Brown, a blog reader, writes for Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine for information architects. His articles focus on tools and best practices for preparing information architecture deliverables. Dan has written some interesting articles on Visio recently, namely creating an annotation widget for wireframes, creating a shape that you can toggle (what we call…
Year: 2005
Dev Luv: Are You A Visio Shape Developer?
Which option best describes how you use Visio shapes? (a) I only use the shapes that ship in the box or that I see in other peoples’ drawings; I don’t make any modification to the shapes when I use them. (b) I modify existing shapes with color or other formatting changes and reuse those shapes;…
Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 3)
Jeff, a blog reader, noticed a cool Web service shape in a .NET article posted on MSDN. Here’s what the diagram looks like. The Web services shape isn’t a Visio shape that I’ve seen before so I contacted the authors of the article here at Microsoft. After weaving through several orgs, I found Eugenio from…