Archives / Year: 2016
UX Apprentice in Multiple Languages
Part of our mission at Balsamiq is to spread the knowledge of User Experience. We have been tweeting more about it (both at our @balsamiq and @uxapprentice accounts), sharing...
Nathanael Coyne on Getting UX the Respect it Deserves
You may know our latest Champion, Nathanael Coyne, from his top-notch UX blog purecaffeine.com. In it, he chimes in on many of the hot topics in UX discussions today,...
Balsamiq Raffles: Free Tickets to Great UX Events
We are always exploring new ways to connect with our community and reciprocate their love and support. We give free licenses to educators and do-gooders, we open-source part of...
Remote Work: What's Hard, What's Great, and How to Stay Connected
More and more companies are embracing remote working. For those who are considering it or have just made the leap, there are a lot of resources to learn from,...
Join Bridget Harris, (YouCanBookMe) and Peldi (Balsamiq) to discuss remote working and more...
My interview for Business of Software.
Simprints - Simple Fingerprint Identification for the Developing World
Tristram Norman is CTO of Simprints, a nonprofit that has created a simple, secure fingerprint identification system for a range of projects in developing countries. Tristram calls it "a...
Gret Glyer of DonorSee
Gret Glyer is the founder of DonorSee, an app that greatly simplifies and personalizes charitable giving. He used Balsamiq Mockups for the first draft of his app and agreed...
[Release] A Small Bug Fix Release
Hi friends of Balsamiq! Have we mentioned how much we love our community lately? You all are awesome, we appreciate your feedback and bug reports so much. You're truly...
How and Why We Give Away Swag
Giving gifts is a win-win situation. You make customers happy, cultivate loyalty, and get good marketing results simply by being generous and grateful. Today we want to share our...
[Release] Mockups 3.5! Improved Material Design Support, iPhone 7, macOS Sierra Compatibility, and More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another exciting release! Improved Material Design Support! We have added some controls and properties to make it easier to create designs inspired by...
[Release] A Nice Little Summer Release
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We hope you've all had a great summer and are energized for a productive autumn and winter! ๐ Some of us took some time off,...
Jane Portman Cooks Up UI Breakfast
Jane Portman is the creator and author of UI Breakfast, a practical resource full of UX design and business lessons based on her extensive experience with both. It also...
Welcome Drew Lafferty and Lizelotte Green!
Hello, friends of Balsamiq! Our not-so-little-anymore team keeps on growing! Today I would like to introduce to you our two new team members: Drew Lafferty and Liz Green! Drew...
Edit the Balsamiq Docs!
We've made it easy for anyone with a Github account to submit edits to our documentation. As we've written about before, improving our documentation has been a focus of...
Scott Gallant on Adapting to Succeed
Not long ago we received an email from Scott Gallant in response to our blog post about our new Hugo-powered documentation site. He said he was building a Content...
Volunteer Opportunities for UX Designers or Developers
Photo Credits: Code for America We spend years developing skills and craft to further our careers. That experience becomes a valuable resource that may be put to good work...
Balsamiq Summer Camp: How We Planned Our 2016 Retreat
Annual retreats have become an essential part of working together at Balsamiq. From our first gathering as an entire company in 2010, we realized seeing each other face to...
[Release] A Nice Little Bug-Fix Release
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another release! This one is pretty small, it just fixes some bugs and adds a new little feature in Mockups 3 for Confluence...
Wireframes: A New Tool for Marketers and Content Writers
Let's imagine. The Marketing Department just created the ultimate inbound strategy; the plan has been handed off, and now it's the copywriter's, designer's, and developer's turn to make their...
Thank You Balsamiq
"I am most appreciative for the software and for the path it has revealed. Thank you Balsamiq for providing me with my palette."
[Release] Balsamiq Mockups 3 for Confluence Cloud!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! A couple of months after releasing Mockups 3 for JIRA Cloud, we're happy to announce that Balsamiq Mockups 3 has come to Confluence Cloud as...
Kate Toon Uses Balsamiq to Transform The Copywriting Process
I recently returned from the Write the Docs 2016 conference in Portland, where people who write documentation, marketing copy, and more gather to talk about the state of all...
Tools We Use for Social Scheduling
Need to schedule posts on social media? Here are some useful ways to do it!
[Release] Mockups 3.4!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Today's release is bigger than our usual ones, so we're switching the version number from 3.3 to 3.4 for it. Let's see what's new and...
How We Do Content Discovery
How do you know what content will resonate with your audience? Here are some ways to find out!
Tools We Use for Brand Monitoring
How do you know what people are saying about your brand online? Find out here!
15 Tech Tools Startups Can't Do Without in 2016
โA beautiful and easy to implement wire framing tool.โ
In Case You Missed It: New Hidden Powers in Balsamiq Mockups 3
Finally getting to work on features that have been on the back-burner forever is a great way to rejuvenate developers and reward long-time customers. After a slow year of...
The Balsamiq Marketing Checklist
We do marketing pretty differently at Balsamiq. Read all about it!
[Release] Easier Access to Alternates, More Android-y Controls and Lots of Little Bug Fixes!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! As you know, we never get tired of making our little tool better and better for you all. ๐ Let's see what's in today's release....
Danielle Tate: The "Elegant Entrepreneur"
Danielle Tate is the author of "Elegant Entrepreneur: The Female Founders Guide to Starting & Growing Your First Company", which she wrote "to lower the barriers to entry and...
Jessica Orellanes Joins Balsamiq!
Hello, friends! I am Jessica, and I've just become the 21st member of the Balsamiq team as a Community Manager. How I landed here is a mix of timing,...
Best Wireframe Tools To Make Your Design A Success
"Balsamiq is the right software to splurge your creativity. The raid wireframing tool gives you an awesome artwork experience."
Peldi's Talk About Balsamiq's Journey So Far
Balsamiq's story is a compelling one: one man creates a product, builds a company and stays fiercely independent. It sounds good, but as you can imagine it's not without...
The Balsamiq Mantras
To help us do our best work consistently, we use a list of Balsamiq Mantras.
Staying Fresh with Good Old HTML and CSS
As the internet keeps evolving at staggering speed, new tools are released constantly, and employers are always looking for the most experienced players. Designers seem to have no choice...
[Release] Balsamiq Mockups 3 for JIRA Cloud!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We're happy to announce that Balsamiq Mockups 3 has come to JIRA Cloud! In March of last year we introduced version 3 to Mockups for...
[Release] Another Nice Little Release
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another nice little release to make you even more awesome at wireframing! ๐ Let's dive right in. Automatic Repositioning of Aligned Labels This...
Not Selling Out | BoS AMA with Peldi Guilizzoni
My interview for Business of Software.