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Free UX Templates

Posted: November 21st, 2008 | Author: Zef | Filed under: Information Architecture, User Experience, Websites | 30 Comments »

Just over a year ago I took part in an amazing team competition called FullCodePress to build a website from the ground-up in 24hrs.

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Read all about it

Since then I’ve had numerous requests from User Experience professionals around the world for copies of my information architecture templates and artefacts.

Here they are for the taking…

The templates are derived from the User Experience toolkit I designed for the DUX team at Provoke. So we’ve given you the basic tools – it’s now up to you to do the magic with the actual user experience.

And here’s what some of these look like…

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30 Comments on “Free UX Templates”

  1. 1 Eoghan Murray said at 11:22 AM on November 21st, 2008:

    Hi Zef,

    Looking at the Personas document, I know this is going to be immediately and permanently useful to me.

    Would it be possible for you to export SVG versions of the Visio documents for those of us who shun Microsoft?

    With thx!

  2. 2 Zef said at 9:05 PM on November 23rd, 2008:

    SVG, RTF and CSV package added for those rebels without MS Office!

  3. 3 Jason Robb said at 9:00 PM on November 25th, 2008:

    Hey, maybe it’s just me, but I’m getting an error when opening those SVG’s in a browser. (Should I be opening them in something else?)

    Thanks,
    Jason

  4. 4 Zef said at 9:22 PM on November 25th, 2008:

    Hi Jason – sorry to hear you’re having problems. I’m not too familiar with SVGs so hopefully another reader can advise us? I can also make PDF versions available on request.

  5. 5 Zef said at 2:48 AM on November 26th, 2008:

    To view the SVGs I think you need an SVG plug-in for your browser. Best to get the Visio versions as these are multipage and have all the template functionality.

  6. 6 Eoghan Murray said at 9:38 AM on November 26th, 2008:

    http://www.inkscape.org/ is a good open source tool for viewing and editing SVG files, but as these are Visio exports, you’ll have the best results with Visio!

  7. 7 whatever said at 11:23 PM on November 26th, 2008:

    the SVGs get all screwed up in inkscape .. lines of text all on top of each other etc.

  8. 8 Cesar Torres said at 8:33 PM on December 2nd, 2008:

    These are elegant, clean and SUPER useful. I know how much work goes into creating these. Thanks so much for sharing!

  9. 9 Jeff said at 10:28 PM on December 2nd, 2008:

    A PDF version would be very much appreciated.

    Thanks!

  10. 10 Brian said at 12:35 AM on December 3rd, 2008:

    Would love to see the PDF versions of the Visio Docs… Saw your post to the adaptive path UX mailing list. Thanks so much for posting these!

    Brian

  11. 11 Zef said at 4:35 AM on December 3rd, 2008:

    PDF package now available. They don’t look so pretty but readable!

  12. 12 Alicia said at 7:38 PM on December 3rd, 2008:

    Any chance of getting the Visio docs converted to OmniGraffle for the Mac-users in the house?

  13. 13 Zef said at 12:37 AM on December 4th, 2008:

    Sorry Alicia – I don’t have OmniGraffle – but I heard it might let you import the Visio format? Alternatively if someone out there would like to convert them and send them through to me that would be greatly appreciated. Email to zef [at] zefamedia.co.nz

  14. 14 Judy said at 9:12 PM on December 4th, 2008:

    Zef,
    I am very interested in seeing your visio templates – unfortunately, the version of viso we have in my company is Viso 2002. Any chance of sending me the templates saved as a lower version of visio that you normally use?

  15. 15 template said at 10:07 AM on December 7th, 2008:

    well there is hidden joy in virtual reality. It is so cool indeed.

  16. 16 Zef said at 11:29 PM on December 7th, 2008:

    Judy – current versions are 2003 – I’ll contact you directly.

  17. 17 xurizaemon said at 7:28 PM on February 12th, 2009:

    dear zef,

    this looks great! unfortunately the links to “Free UX Templates PDF.zip” and “SVG RTF.zip” are 404 at the moment. would love to take a look at these if you (or another reader) finds the files

    cheerio!

  18. 18 xurizaemon said at 7:32 PM on February 12th, 2009:

    dear dear zef

    the dread wordpress has a hand in this game i sense, it has been “helpful” with your filenames ;)

    here are the culprits:

    * http://www.zefamedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/svg-rtf.zip

    * http://www.zefamedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/free-ux-templates-pdf.zip

    thanks a bomb

  19. 19 admin said at 2:53 PM on February 16th, 2009:

    Sorry about the broken links – havevn’t found time to fix these yet. Until the end of February 2009 you can still find them at http://www.zefamedia.co.nz/blog/2008/11/21/free-ux-templates.html

  20. 20 admin said at 2:13 PM on March 6th, 2009:

    Links now fixed. Sorry this has taken so long. Still haven’t gotten around to mowing the lawns so consider yourselves lucky.

  21. 21 peter g said at 2:27 PM on March 6th, 2009:

    Awesome set of templates Zef..Thanks for fixing the links. They look effective and great. Cheers

  22. 22 Jakub Uradnik said at 11:42 PM on April 8th, 2009:

    I have never seen more useful free UX templates. Thanks ever so much, sir!
    Jakub

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  24. 24 J. Charles Ogwyn said at 12:18 PM on June 4th, 2009:

    Thanks for sharing such useful (and free) UX templates. Definitely an asset to any web team’s toolbox.

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  26. 26 Abdel Olakara said at 5:10 PM on June 9th, 2009:

    Thanks for sharing the UX templates. This is really good work and helps me a lot. Keep up the good work. :)

  27. 27 William Notowidagdo said at 11:06 PM on June 15th, 2009:

    Thank you for sharing!

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  29. 29 aarondus said at 7:40 AM on July 18th, 2009:

    Hi Zef, I really appreciate your efforts to share in your ux platforms, thank you! Some time early last year (april 2008 I think) you talked about blobbing users, is there any chance you have anymore info or a template you’d be willing to share how to create those amazing visuals (for a mac user)? I’m an ethnographer and I often struggle with communicating lots of data and think this would help tremendously! Thank you for considering, best aaron

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