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Do You Know Your Elements? A Visio Periodic Table

Dan Gilleland posted on March 31, 2008 08:38

OK, these Visio templates are just too cool! Not only are the Periodic Table shapes cool, but there are a lot of others too:

Bingo shapes
Smart-Fading Tree
USB Stick shape
Multi-Earth shape
and many more that I won't list here but that you can find at http://www.visguy.com/shapes/

I ran across these when I was doing a quick search for Visio templates that I could use for quickly mocking up web page and web control elements. I also ran across this template from the Interaction Designer's Coffee Break blog.

Lastly, I have to make note of how the Visio Guy actually takes time to explain how his templates work and are designed. For example, take a look at his description of how to make a glass cover effect - wow! And, he has references to other good resources for those interested in creating their own Visio graphics.

Of course, seeing is believing, and it behoves me (I love to use rarely-used words) to show you some screen-shots.