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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,...
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...
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...
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...
Tools We Use for Social Scheduling
Need to schedule posts on social media? Here are some useful ways to do it!
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!
The Balsamiq Marketing Checklist
We do marketing pretty differently at Balsamiq. Read all about it!
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,...
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.
Looking Back at 2015
Hello again friends of Balsamiq! Peldi here with our traditional "state of the union" end-of-year report. You can find previous editions here: 2008, 2009, 2013, and 2014. As usual,...
A New Year's Toast to Some Awesome Non-profits
Four years ago we added a company donation policy. Over the years we increased the amount we donate from 2% to 3% of our profits and we've added the...
A Season to Be Thankful
Another year has gone and here we are, looking back to what 2015 brought us. As usual, Peldi will publish a detailed ālooking backā post soon. In short, we...
Tips for Creating Great Screencast Recordings
Need to create a screencast? Here are our tips on the subject!
Docs.balsamiq.com: Our New Static Documentation Site, Powered by Hugo
Last month we released a brand new web site for our documentation - docs.balsamiq.com. We also updated our support site with a new design and layout. This post describes...
Welcome Brendan, Virgin and Stefano!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It is my great pleasure to introduce to you three new members of the Balsamiq family today. Brendan Saricks Brendan is the guy in your...
Company Policies: Time Off to Exercise
Read all about our Time Off To Exercise Policy.
Peldi's 15 Tips for Public Speaking
Want to give a great public talk? Here are my tips!
On Working from Home, Better
Balsamiq is a company optimized for working remotely. Of our ~20 employees, only nine live within commuting distance of our only office in Bologna, Italy, and even those employees...
2015 Balsamiq Retreat in the Loire Valley
Since we are a remote, distributed team (9 from Italy, 5 from California, 1 from France, 1 from Germany, 1 from Netherlands, so far - and more are coming!),...
Volunteering at BOSS
As I wrote recently, some of us use part of our Professional Development Time at Balsamiq to do some volunteering. We also encourage each other to share our learning...
Professional Development at Balsamiq
This post is part of a series about our VERY FEW company policies. Read this intro post for some context. We have become hesitant about sharing our company policies...
Looking Back at 2014
Hello again friends of Balsamiq! Peldi here with our traditional "state of the union" end-of-year report. You can find previous editions here: 2008, 2009 and 2013. As usual, this...
Balsamiq, the Secret Sauce
It's not hard to guess that our company has always had a strong affinity with food. Especially good, earthy, artisanal, unpretentious food. We even added a menu item in...
Even Santa Uses Balsamiq?
As you know, our little company is spread out around the world. We have a Hipchat room we use to share day-to-day stories, which helps us bond. Today Stefano...
Santa Visited Balsamiq Today!
As Santa gets ready forĀ his annual trip around the world, heĀ came by for a visit to our different locations this morning. We all were ready for him, bouncing off...
Francesca Fabbri Joins Balsamiq!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! I'm Francesca, the seventeenth member of the Balsamiq family. What can we expect from you? My primary role at Balsamiq is to be the Community...
2014 Retreat: Learning From and About
Ride pride Friends, I can't believe it's October. Before summer becomes a distant memory, I want to tell some stories from this year's Retreat. If you've been following our...
Transformative Living @ Balsamiq
I believe it all started in San Francisco. In 2013, our yearly retreat took place in a big house on the pan handle and one of the many highlights...
Happy to Learn Something New!
WeĀ encourage each other to be lifelong learners at Balsamiq, and I decided to take a class.Ā Opportunities for online education are abundant, but don't overlook the benefits of an in-person...
Admin Engineers
About a year and a half ago, we started experimenting with a company structured around project-based work. I remember Peldi asking me what I thought we should name the...
Behind the Scenes of Our Documentation Process
We are always committed to improving our support website experience. Read this blog post for the most recent changes to the Documentation site. We recently wrote about some of...
Looking Back at 2013
Hello friends of Balsamiq! As 2013 comes to an end, it's time to revive an old tradition (2008, 2009) and look back at all that we have achieved this...
Sketching the 2013 Retreat
Our home for the week Hi all! Ben here again. As Val already posted, last summer we had our annual company retreat. This was my first opportunity to attend,...
Ben on the Balsamiq Customer Experience
Supporting customers is such a huge part of what we do as company. Everyone contributes to customer support in one way or another, and our awesome team keep working...
An Office with a View
It's been a wild 3 years since my last blog post about our office in Bologna. Since then, we've grown to 16 friendly faces, a whopping 8 in Bologna...
Sketchnotes from Mobile UX Summit 2013
Hi, all. Ben here again with more sketchnotes! (Here is a link to the first set of sketchnotes I posted.) Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in...
Happy 5th Birthday, Dear Balsamiq!
With the SuperMoon shining upon us, the friends who make up Balsamiq met in San Francisco to celebrate our company's 5th birthday. Our team is scattered around Europe and...