The Balsamiq Blog

New to the UX world and wireframing? Learn how to start a wireframe by mapping ideas with low-fidelity tools—keeping the focus on usability, flow, and collaboration.

Once you’re done with your wireframes, you’ll need to present them to get someone’s approval. Learn 3 effective strategies to get buy-in and move forward.

Wireframe annotations make designs look clear and collaboration feel smooth. Learn what they are and why you don’t need designer-level skills to use them.

A guide for non-designers who want to learn the basics of wireframing—perfect for anyone looking to bring their digital projects to life.

Learn how to wireframe a mobile app in 8 clear steps. Plan faster, design smarter, and build apps that users love—with no design experience required.

We believe Product Managers can and should wireframe! All you need are some ground rules for doing it, and good communication with your teammates. Here's how.

Wireframing for clients is different than design done in-house. Follow these 7 tips to avoid friction and ensure a smooth development process for the team.

A set of simple ground rules for product designers and other stakeholders in software projects, for a long-lasting, smooth, and effective collaboration.

Learn what a wireflow is, how it compares to wireframes and user flow diagrams, and see real-life examples on creating user flows that actually make sense.

A software specification answers the what, why, and how. Here are 7 proven tips to create better specs and wireframes before moving to implementation.

Digital products go through cycles of expansion and simplification. Today we focus on the “adult life” phase, which is where Balsamiq Wireframes is right now.

Learn how to improve your website’s user experience! For each mistake you’ll learn what usually happens and why, what it looks like, and what to do about it.

Error management: help people avoid errors in the first place, see the error, and understand what's happened — and add instructions on how to recover from it.

Rigorous user research isn’t always possible. This talk for Smashing Meets explains how we adapted the theory to make it work in our particular world.

User Research and Development are team sports. We go over the organization and processes our remote-first teams have in place to build Balsamiq Wireframes.

Designing a Sign-Up flow for a web app is much harder than you’d think. It requires a balance between usability and security, with a sprinkle of marketing on top.

Launching a new brand, a new website, and a new UI for our wireframing tool! A design update that doesn’t change our focus: speed and clarity for product teams.

In 2024 we pruned to grow, we focused on clarity, and we adapted to embrace data analysis. Read about all the improvements and new features, too!

We have people in the USA (in California and Illinois), and Europe. This allows us to provide top-notch customer support and gives us a diverse and global culture.

A detailed recap of what we did in 2023 and a peek into our plans for 2024.

We wrote a book to help everyone participate in the design process! It’s about better ways to make wireframes and use them with your team. Order your copy now.

We've changed a lot in the last year! Here's our traditional recap of what we did in 2022 and our plans for 2023.

The Balsamiq team is growing! Join us in welcoming two new team members, JR and Arielle, in new roles.

Even if you tend to do marketing projects internally, sometimes you could consider hiring outside contractors. This is how we do it - and some lessons learned.