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This is part one of a two-part post about what happened in 2008 and my plans for 2009. First, a few numbers about 2008: days in business: 196 - that's 6 months and 13 days, or 28 weeks. See...
By Peldi
I am starting to batch updates and releasing once a week (Sunday morning, Italian time). I used to "fix it an release it" but now that the product is more mature I feel that "slowing down" to a weekly...
By Peldi
I am extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of Balsamiq Mockups version 1.5. This is a FREE upgrade for all Mockups versions. Download links: Mockups for Desktop, for Confluence, for JIRA and for XWiki. You can also try...
By Peldi
Hi there, just a quick update. I have been heads down coding and bug-fixing in order to get Mockups 1.5 out the door. I feel extremely close, hopefully I'll be able to launch by the end of the week....
By Peldi
Hi there. Atlassian once again manages to impress me and make me proud to be affiliated with them. This is one of the best recruiting tools I have ever seen. This totally fired me up, I truly hope to...
By Peldi
I constantly get asked if I know any good Flex developers, and I am tired of answering "I wish!" 🙂 So if you do Flex development, please fill in the form below so that I can send some work...
By Peldi
“We love this story. Back in July we wrote about the inspiring experience of Peldi Guilizzoni, a lone software developer who'd built a web design mock-up tool called Balsamiq and who was opening up his financial records on his...
By Peldi
I feel a bit sheepish posting this since I don't want to come across as bragging, but a promise is a promise, so here it goes... I just recently surpassed $100,000 of revenue. Balsamiq has been in business for...
By Peldi
Hi there. I am very pleased to introduce to you my wife and best friend Mariah. She has been the hand behind all of the UI controls in Balsamiq Mockups, not to mention an incredible "support group of one"...
By Peldi
Hi there. It was a long day yesterday, with Lufthansa reminding me about how bad airplane food can be. 🙁 It's good to be back in the Bay Area, even for just a few days. It's a strange feeling,...
By Peldi
Hi there. Just a quick note to tell you that I'll be at AtlasCamp, Atlassian's first developer conference, from tomorrow (thu Nov 6th) until Monday night (Nov 10th). I am pretty sure there'll be Internet access while I'm there,...
By Peldi
"The drawing style is deliberately sloppy: rough lines, semi-handwritten text, even the ability to add scratch-out lines over part of an interface that you want to cross out. This is actually just what I want for a prototyping tool"
By Peldi
"This is the story of how a young coder from Italy, who was until fairly recently working at Adobe, quit his job to launch Balsamiq."
By Peldi
Hi there, I am approaching release quality for Mockups 1.5, and am looking for volunteers to test the pre-release version. If you are interested, simply go to the Next Release Preview page and download the Desktop version or try...
By Peldi
A fellow software entrepreneur emailed me today with this question: My question is, as I am trying to get an application of mine built in AIR, and it is commercial software, with features disabled that I want enabled after...
By Peldi
This is so wild...watch the video below...I could have given the exact same talk! OK, probably a lot less eloquently, but I am amazed at how closely what Jason Fried says maps to my thoughts about software and Balsamiq....
By Peldi
Spurred by a customer's email, I have made the following enhancement to Mockups for Confluence today. The problem is that when people create and edit UI mockups in Confluence, they often make many small edits in rapid successions as...
By Peldi
Hi there, I have done this with a few people already and it's worked out so well that I have decided to make it a policy: starting today... If you are willing to demo Mockups to an audience of...
By Peldi
The following is a story that I told many people already, but didn't think was interesting enough to put on my blog until a certain Tamales Princess I know practically forced me to write to 😉 so here it...
By Peldi
Hi there, just a quick note to let you know that I just created a Balsamiq page on Facebook. Become a fan and meet other people who like Mockups as much as you do! 🙂
By Peldi
I know I know, it might not be the smartest thing to release a new product every day, but I'm too excited to sit on this one. The news: if you are running a free JIRA 3.13 Personal License,...
By Peldi
Hi there. Less than a month since shipping Mockups for JIRA, I have some more exciting news to share. In case you didn't know, XWiki (xwiki.org) is both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm...
By Peldi
Hey there. Just a quick post to show a new little enhancement I just added. You can now set the transparency level of the background color for the Tree, the TextArea and most importantly the Canvas/Rectangle control. This is...
By Peldi
I just sold a license to my 500th customer! That's a much bigger number that I expected to reach in such a short time (it's been less than 3 and 1/2 months since I launched), but so far I...
By Peldi
I should really be doing something else right now, but I wanted to get this out. I think it'd be fair to say that I use "the cloud" and web apps more than anyone I know. Still, there are...
By Peldi
Hi there, sorry for not blogging for a while (a whole 10 days!), but I've been pretty busy with both Balsamiq work and life in general: after 3 months "on vacation" traveling around Italy, real life is starting here...
By Peldi
I am thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Balsamiq Mockups for JIRA, the latest version of Balsamiq Mockups. You can download it, test it and if you wish, buy it for just $799. Quick and dirty Screencast I...
By Peldi
Hey there, the title pretty much says it all, but here's a picture too: 🙂 I also fixed a bug with Mockups not showing up on startup when you used it on a secondary monitor and don't have it...
By Peldi
After getting a nod from my superstar customers, I have changed the default file extension used by Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop from XML to BMML. It stands for Balsamiq Mockups Markup Language, and it's still the same human-readable XML...
By Peldi
You asked for them, you got them! Sorry this took a little while. We (i.e. my lovely wife, the hand behind all of Mockups' icons and UI controlsI) also re-drew some of the previous icons, which looked too jagged...
By Peldi
Hi there, I just added a new feature to Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop, which I hope will help you integrate it in your workflow even more. In short, you can export your UI mockups from the command line. Here's...
By Peldi
As you can see, Balsamiq Mockups for JIRA is pretty close to becoming a reality. The build is approaching beta-quality: if you'd like to help me test it, email me and I'll send you a link with instructions. On...
By Peldi
The faster you are able to create your UI mockups, the happier I am. In the last few days I made some improvements which should help you get your work done faster. Here's what you'll get if you upgrade...
By Peldi
Hi there. If you have been following Balsamiq Mockups, you'll know that a number of potential customers have been turned off by my choice of "Comic Sans MS" as the primary font in it. Not being "into fonts" myself,...
By Peldi
I am extremely excited to announce a new little feature of Balsamiq Mockups: Clicking on the menu will simply open a new browser page to www.inspireUX.com. If you don't know InspireUX, I cannot recommend it highly enough. Catriona Cornett...
By Peldi
I love Twitter and can't remember life before it. It's a whole new channel of communication, with its own dynamics and conventions. I like how it fits nicely between instant messaging and blogging, and I hope one day it...
By Peldi
Today I finally had some time to dedicate to bug fixing and performance tuning. Here's a summary, roughly in order of importance the big one: in some instances, Mockups for Desktop wasn't saving data to disk properly on "Close...
By Peldi
More than a new feature it's a change to the existing "Import Mockup" feature. Starting now, importing a mockup will no longer clear the current mockup. No UI changes, just use the Import Mockup feature as you did before....
By Peldi
“Since its launch a few short months ago Balsamiq mockups has taken the hacker community by storm. Why? This is one of those rags to riches stories that inspire us all.”
By Peldi
First off, the title of this post is a bit pretentious for my taste, but I wanted to pay homage to Mike Speiser's excellent post on A/B testing using AdWords, and take advantage of his $10.87 investment while I...
By Peldi
Ok so people hate Comic Sans MS, I get it now. So let's get rid of it. Adam Alexander was kind enough to provide me with a list of possible replacements, so I thought I'd run a survey here...
By Peldi
