Balsamiq Mockups
Improve your Usability
Explore Different Designs in Minutes
Get to Agreement Early
with a tool everyone can use
Cut down spec-writing time
Spend your time coding, not churning
Use it with your clients
Let them help you bring their vision to life
Integrated in the way you work
Web, Desktop or Web Office
Buy it for your Desktop ($79), Confluence, JIRA ($799) or XWiki
Put that pencil down
Using Balsamiq Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it's digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting.
Get it done as a team
Product managers, designers, developers and even clients can now work together in the same tool to quickly iterate over software mockups, before writing code.
Powerful And Scalable
With 75 pre-built controls to choose from, you can design anything from a super-simple dialog box to a full-fledged application, from a simple website to a Rich Internet Application. See some sample mockups or try it out!
Focus on functionality
Balsamiq Mockups intentionally uses hand-drawn UI elements, so that people don't get attached to “that pretty color gradient” or think that your mockup has actual code behind it and is “practically done”.
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“I thought it was going to be slower than paper but it wasn't. It was better.”
Spice Up your wiki
Mockups is tightly integrated with Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA and XWiki. We even have a desktop version for when you are offline.
About Balsamiq
Balsamiq Studios LLC is a fresh little software company, focused on adding flavor to your Web Office suite. We use Mockups to design all of our software.
Sample Mockups
Designed for Collaboration
Mockups is designed to help you and your team or clients iterate on wireframes as early in the process as possible, when it's cheapest to do so. Here are some of the features that support this goal:
- extreme speed: you can create and tweak designs in real time during a design discussion meeting, whether you're all in the same room or sharing your screen in an online meeting.
- a look no-one is afraid to criticize: wireframes created with Mockups are intentionally rough and low-fidelity. The idea is to encourage as much feedback as possible...no-one will think you'll be offended by their input, they'll know immediately that you just 'threw it together' quickly.
- multiple ways to share and get feedback on your designs:
- Mockups exports to common PNG images which can be emailed as attachments, easily embedded in a website or saved in a shared folder.
- Mockups also exports to the clipboard, so that you can simply paste the snapshots to your Word or Powerpoint requirement documents and feature specifications.
- If you are using a plugin version of Mockups, you will be able to embed your Mockups in your wiki pages or bug reports, with access control, versioning and all the great Web Office features you've come to love.
- You can achieve near-real-time collaboration by coupling Mockups for Desktop with a "file sharing in the cloud" service like DropBox (learn more).
- If your colleagues haven't bought Mockups, they'll still be able to import your XML code in the free online demo version, tweak it, export it back and email it to you.
- We are currently developing an online version of Mockups (subscription-based), which will have commenting, versioning, access controls and all that good stuff. Let us know if you'd like to participate in the private beta program.
Backed by A Passionate Community of Users
Buying Balsamiq Mockups means joining a growing community of programmers, designers, product managers and usability experts who are passionate about Mockups and creating excellent software and web sites. Questions on the Balsamiq GetSatisfaction forums always get answered quickly and respectfully, new features are designed collaboratively and in the open (here's a sample, and another) and bugs get prioritized based on customer votes there.
You will also be able to take advantage of MockupsToGo, a user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups. We hope you'll want to contribute as well! :)
If you’d like to see what some of these passionate users are saying you can read these testimonials or simply search "balsamiq" on Twitter. You can even put some faces to the names by becoming a fan of Balsamiq Mockups on Facebook.
We hope you'll join us and help us make Mockups even better! :)
Questions?
If you have any questions about Mockups try the F.A.Q.s on the Mockups Help/FAQs Page or the community-driven forums. You can always shoot us an email and we'll get back to you within a few hours.
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