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Our Spring 2010 Travel Plans
Hi everyone. We are all heads down making a TON of progress on all areas of our business: the website, the product, the web app, our internal processes...it's awesome. Now that Mike is on board we seem to have...
By Peldi
Install and Update Usability
One of the nice things about working in a small, flat organization is that you have to do support. With no levels of hierarchy and everyone monitoring support, communication is easy and fixes are fast. My experience today in...
By Mike
UX Design in the Open
Today marks a new chapter in the ongoing evolution of Balsamiq. In the spirit of openness and transparency that you've come to know from the crew at Balsamiq, Michae talks about how we're going to design in the open...
By Mike
Mike's 5 Jobs
Hi again. Thanks so much everyone for all the nice words following yesterday's announcement.... we're all super-excited as well! 🙂 In this post we'd like to give you a little glimpse of what Mike joining will mean for you,...
By Peldi
Michael Angeles Joins Balsamiq
I can barely contain my excitement as I type this, so I'll get right to it: Michael Angeles, the man behind Konigi and one of the people I look up to the most in our industry, has agreed to...
By Peldi
Help Us Design the “Components” Feature
This new feature, called "Symbols", has been released with Mockups 2.0 The ability to create components and re-use them across different mockups is one of our most highly requested features. Some people call this "master templates", others call it...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Updated Certificate, Bug Fixes
Hello friends. This week's release is pretty light-weight as we've been focusing on MyBalsamiq, our web app. Reactions to our first public screencast of the app were very kind, which is encouraging. I'm not yet totally in love with...
By Peldi
Happy Birthday, BalsamiqMarco!
I woke up to the news that today was Marco's birthday. He's already logged off for dinner, so we decided to throw him a little virtual surprise party, complete with decorations by Mariah and Guidio Jack, and a ukulele...
By Val
A Sneak Peek at myBalsamiq, Our Web App
Hi there! Just a quick post to let you know that I finally got around to recording a quick tour of myBalsamiq, the upcoming Balsamiq Mockups Web App. The tour is 13 minutes long and very "scruffy" as usual,...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Flash Player 10 and More
Hi all! Once again, not a huge release since we're working full-time on myBalsamiq, which is getting another beta refresh today. Still, we were able to fix some bugs and add a few little features here and there. Switching...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Fixed the "Jump" Bug, Improved Performance, Fancy Duplicate, 2 New Control Types
Hello friends! Once again we've been mostly focused on myBalsamiq this past week but we were able to fix a few bugs here and there, as well as sneaking in two new little features: Radio Button Group and CheckBox...
By Peldi
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits
“Mockups To Go is a user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns that were built using Balsamiq Mockups. You can download all of the components and design patterns to use in your mockups.”
By Peldi
At Balsamiq, Everyone Blogs. Join Us.
The Balsamiq Blog is my third blog. I started in 2003 with Peldi's Little Blog in which I shared sample applications and things that I learned at work about Flash Communication Server, and ran it for about 3 years....
By Peldi
Switch Story of Peldi Guilizzoni: From 0 To 15,000 Customers in 29 Months!
My interview for Switch Story.
By Peldi
New Release: a Mockups Viewer and Bug Fixes
Hello everyone! It's only been two weeks since our last little release, but it feels much longer for some reason. We've been really busy. How have you been? We missed you! 🙂 We have a nice little update for...
By Peldi
My Seat at the Chef's Table
Since college, my job title has gone from Administrative Assistant to Chief Operating Officer. I have seen and learned a great deal, and not just about technology. It's been a wild ride, through expansions and contractions, and I have been up...
By Val
Luis Arias Joins Balsamiq
It is my great pleasure to introduce to you the newest member of the Balsamiq team, monsieur Luis Arias, Web Programmer Extraordinaire. 🙂 If you've been following us for a while you'll know that Luis and I have been...
By Peldi
First Release of 2010: Draggable Tabs and Bug Fixes
Hello friends! Welcome to our first release of 2010. Let's get right to it! 🙂 New, Draggable Tabs! The ability to drag the mockup tabs at the bottom of Mockups for Desktop is something we've been wanting to do...
By Peldi
Balsamiq Roadmap for 2010
This is part two of a two-part post about what happened in 2009 and our plans for 2010. We did this last year as well, it's becoming somewhat of a tradition! 😉 By the way, thanks so much for...
By Peldi
A Look Back at 2009
Wow. Just wow. It's hard for me to believe how much has happened in Balsamiq-land in 2009. I feel like a completely different person than when I wrote the "A Look back at 2008" post, just 12 months ago. In...
By Peldi
Tracking Your Company's Mentions with Del.icio.us
Hello friends! Today I'd like to share a little Del.icio.us trick that might be useful for your company. It's something I saw used at Atlassian and that I've been using extensively ever since starting Balsamiq. An intro to del.icio.us...
By Peldi
Holiday Reading: Free eBooks and Good Blogs
Hello again! 'Tis the season of giving, and hopefully most of you will have a little more time to do some reading, so I thought this would be a good time to share the following links with you. Free...
By Peldi
An Apology
Hi friends. So I made a big mistake today. No, I made a few. I was so excited about the new pan feature that I decided to release it without testing it properly. Not only, I also ran out...
By Peldi
Mid-week Release: Finishing up Zoom
New Update (5:49pm CET): we have fixed the bug and issued an apology you might be interested in (there's a little surprise for you there) Update (5:16pm CET): the new build was seriously broken. We have posted the previous...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Zoom Zoom!
I forget who told me that you should always hire people who are smarter than you, but boy am I thankful for the advice! I knew Marco was smarter than me pretty soon after I met him. His work...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Big UI Library Improvements
Hello everyone! We finally had some time to tackle one of the big features that many of you have been asking for, the "UI Library Position" feature. As usual, it was a true group effort, just look at all...
By Peldi
Guest Post: The Product Group
Hi everyone! The following is a guest-post by Jeremy Horn, organizer of The Product Group, a meet-up for Product Managers based in New York City. The group is currently composed of 84 members who are devoted to excellence in...
By Peldi
The New Generation of Kick-Ass Web Apps
“The Balsamiq story is truly amazing. It's a simple little tool for creating mock-ups of websites.”
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Lots of Little Fixes
Hi all, sorry we got a bit off-schedule with our weekly releases, but we sure have been busy. Our company is growing and we're growing with it. Lots to share, in time. For now, enjoy this week's bag full...
By Peldi
Back from San Francisco
Hi all, this is Marco writing. I just got back from the Business of Software conference in San Francisco. This is my trip report. Valerie While Valerie and I have been colleagues for 8 months already, we had never...
By Marco
Mockups for JIRA 3.X, Now with User-Based Pricing!
Hi there. So when Atlassian changed the pricing structure for JIRA 4.0 last month we rushed to match it, and sales of the JIRA 4.0 version have been very good already. The demand for it has been so high...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Export to PDF, a Fresh Coat of Paint!
Hi everyone. Man am I ever excited about this week's release! A fresh coat of paint! First of all, we'd like to unveil...our new application icon! Isn't she gorgeous? Here it is again "in action" (click to enlarge): We...
By Peldi
Free Balsamiq Mockups for UX Training
Hello everyone! 🙂 Did you know that today is World Usability Day 2009? It's a global initiative now in its 4th year, aimed at raising the awareness of the importance of good usability in our daily lives. Head over...
By Peldi
YouTube-ing Up a Storm!
Hi all. So we've been travelling quite a bit in the last few months for conferences and such. Aside from learning a lot and sharing what we know, conferences turned out to be the perfect way to meet some...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: A Nice Basket of Low-Hanging Fruit
Hi everyone! I know I said we wouldn't have an update this week, but we ended up being able to carve out some time to dedicate to adding a few of those long-requested-but-not-so-high-priority features that have been sitting in...
By Peldi
Tools We Use for Running Our Startup
Hi there. I've been wanting to write this post for a long time, but things were still evolving too much for me to come up with a definite list. Now that we've been in business for a whole 15...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: OS X Extras and More!
Update: The Spotlight plugin for the Mac is no longer working and maintained. We plan to address this issue in the Mac version in the future. Hi there! I hope this finds you well. Things are crazy busy around...
By Peldi
Listen to This Blog
Hi there, just a quick post to let you know that you can now listen to the most popular posts on this blog via the new blog-to-podcast service from the guys at HearABlog. I like their idea because it's...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Custom Properties and Bug Fixes
Hi there, just a small release this week since we're focused on the web app. New "Custom Properties" feature This feature is especially useful if you're using one of the 3rd party tools that extend Mockups, such as Napkee...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Image Improvements, Bug Fixes...
Hi all. Another week, another release. 🙂 Here's what's new: all the good stuff we announced last week is now live in 1.6: account and project assets folders, pasting images directly to the Desktop, pasting text...good stuff. Thanks to...
By Peldi
[Pre-Release] Better Image Handling, Assets Folders...
Hi all. I hope this finds you well. We have decided to not do an official release this week because we made some pretty big changes we need your feedback on before releasing them. The changes have to do...
By Peldi
Mockups for JIRA: Now with User-Based Pricing!
So Atlassian released JIRA 4.0 today. It is HUGE: killer usability coupled with awesome powers, the way very few companies know how to do. Beyond the new features, we are excited about JIRA 4's new user-based licensing model. No...
By Peldi