Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010

Site Architecture Stencil for OmniGraffle

Methods and Practice, Publications by Austin Govella

Improved site map stencil for OmniGraffle users that's based on EightShapes's Unify deliverable system. You can download it.

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I’ve used EightShapes’s brilliant Unify deliverable system for about four years. It’s excellent.

Out of the box, Unify is designed for use with Adobe InDesign. Lately, however, I’ve been site mapping in sweet, luscious OmniGraffle, and I created a Unify-inspired OmniGraffle stencil for making site maps.

But, there’s one problem with lots of site maps.

In your typical site map, you show the page’s title adjacent to the little box for that page. Unfortunately, clients and developers and designers don’t always what kind of page the page will be. In other words, if you have a page titled, “Orders”, it’s not clear if that’s a dashboard, a list of orders, or even a form form for adding an order.

So I added a line for every page on the site map where you can offer a very brief description of the page.

If you’d like, feel free to download and use the site map stencil.

File Name	Version	Platform	Size	Download
Site Architecture.gstencil	0.6	OmniGraffle	138kb	Download

And if you have any ideas for making it better, please comment below, or —better yet—email me: austin.govella@gmail.com.

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