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Introduction

Basic stencils to create quick GDS wireframes in Visio, PowerPoint etc. or print out to stick on the wall in a design workshop

Used to quickly throw together the flow of pages in a wireframe using patterns from the Government Digital Service (GDS)

The repo includes

  • a Visio template file ('GDS Stencils.vssx')
  • a PowerPoint deck with images of each stencil in you don't want to use Visio ('GDS Stencils.pptx')
  • a PowerPoint deck with the original drawings that can be amended as required ('PageIconDesigns.pptx')
  • a Word document of printable stencils for paper-based prototyping (coming later, for now use the stencils pptx)

Sample diagram

Stencils

  • Before you start/Static Text
  • Task list
  • Step-by-step navigation
  • Check your answers
  • Sign in/password page
  • File upload
  • Interruption card
  • Confirmation page
  • 9 * Question pages of various input types
  • 3 * Question pages with validation errors

Shout if any more would be useful! :)

References

GDS Design System

How to install custom Visio shapes