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UX/UI Links of April 2020
Our favorite UX and UI links from April 2020, including articles about pragmatic design, designing for crisis, positive friction, and more.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of March 2020
Our favorite UX and UI links from March 2020, including articles about designer-developer collaboration, journey maps, seeking feedback, and more.
By Leon
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffles Update for March 2020
If you want a conference where entrepreneurs share the lessons they've learned and support growing businesses, we've got you covered.
By Amanda
Looking Back at 2019
The big rewrite is finally complete. Revenue grew over 11%. Read the recap of 2019, and take a quick look at what's to come in 2020!
By Peldi
UX/UI Links of February 2020
Our favorite UX and UI links from February 2020, including articles about mobile forms, UX research methodologies, UX debt, and more.
By Leon
Dev Update for February 12 2020
So much has happened in the last 6 months! Let's talk about it. :)
By Brendan
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffles Update for February 2020
This month we're excited to showcase an upcoming tech conference designed for black women founders.
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of January 2020
Our favorite UX and UI links from January 2020, including articles about form design, validating product ideas, and more.
By Jessica
BIG Release! Balsamiq Wireframes for Desktop
Native Wireframes for Desktop versions are live. A new beginning!
By Brendan
Balsamiq Sponsorships Update for January 2020
We start the new year by looking back on what our sponsorship program accomplished in 2019.
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of December 2019
Our favorite UX and UI links from December 2019, including articles about mental models, task analysis, settings screens, and more.
By Leon
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for December 2019
We wrap up the year reflecting on our progress, our future, and how we can make the tech community a more inclusive space for all people.
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of November 2019
Our favorite UX and UI links from November 2019, including articles about annotations, footer links, newspaper design, and more.
By Leon
CUSB Ultimate Sponsorship: Winter 2019 Update
More news from the ultimate frisbee teams we sponsor. Both men's and women's teams won the 2019 European Club title!
By Laura
Coming Soon: Balsamiq Wireframes for Desktop
Wireframes for Desktop is SO CLOSE to being release-quality. Come try it out, and help us get over the finish line!
By Peldi
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for November 2019
We're back to share our upcoming sponsored events, announce a new raffle for you to enter, and to talk about how much we love open source.
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of October 2019
Our favorite UX and UI links from October 2019, including articles about exit popups, obvious user interfaces, evolutionary design, and more.
By Leon
myBalsamiq End of Life Announcement
Announcing myBalsamiq's End Of Life date: 1 December 2020.
By Peldi
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for October 2019
Want to learn from expert founders how to get your startup going? Think about attending MicroConf Europe where Peldi will be guest speaking.
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of September 2019
Our favorite UX and UI links from September 2019, including articles about form buttons, social sharing, organizational improvements, and more.
By Leon
UX Expert Paul Boag Is Back With More Website UX Reviews
After recording expert reviews of eight websites, Paul Boag is back with more, the first of which you can watch today. Learn lessons that you can apply to your own site.
By Leon
The 14 Best Tools For Evaluating User Experience on Your Website
"To create a fast, hassle-free website mockup to gather pre-coding feedback, try Balsamiq. The software has a “pencil-and-paper” feel, allowing you to quickly sketch a design and receive feedback before you go through all the trouble of implementing your...
By Peldi
6 Prototyping Tools For Any UX Designer
"Balsamiq is intended to recreate the experience of using a whiteboard in order to create a rapid prototype or wireframe. Such a process typically allows you to come up with more ideas in a shorter amount of time."
By Peldi
Basic Design Principles for Non-Designers
Learn more about basic principles of visual hierarchy, alignment, designing for action, and forms in these articles aimed towards beginning and non-designers.
By Billy
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for September 2019
We have more events and raffles to share. And this month we are attending the Business of Software conference. We'd love to meet you there!
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of August 2019
Our favorite UX and UI links from August 2019, including articles about UX vs. business goals, writing scannable content, intuitive UX rules, and more.
By Leon
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for August 2019
We're back with more upcoming events and raffles. This month we take a look at how education plays a role at Balsamiq as well.
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of July 2019
Our favorite UX and UI links from July 2019, featuring articles about toggle buttons, sign-up pages, text fields, and more.
By Leon
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for July 2019
We're back again with four new raffles to enter. Enter today for a chance to meet with your industry peers!
By Amanda
New Guides on Designing Better Apps and Landing Pages, and Improving PM-Developer Relationships
Learn about three new articles on our education site that will help you in your design work, regardless of your role.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of June 2019
Our favorite UX and UI links from June 2019, featuring articles about making the case for UX, landing pages, sign up forms, and more.
By Leon
How to do Graphic Design for Balsamiq's Company Retreat
Learn all about the graphic design process behind our 2019 Company Retreat: some little details can make a big difference!
By Lei
Coming Home: 2019 Balsamiq Nest Retreat
Gathering together in May for our annual retreat in our new Bologna office, "The Nest," echoed the journey we've been on as a company over the past year.
By Natalie
The Balsamiq Office Hours
Have you ever wanted to talk to us in person? Would you like advice on your career, or software company? We are running a new program, which we're calling... the Balsamiq Office Hours!
By Peldi
Free Wireframes for Google Drive for Classrooms
Our Free program now includes Balsamiq Wireframes for Google Drive for schools.
By Val
Wireframe tools: the top 10 solutions
"Balsamiq Mockups includes several drag-and-drop elements, from buttons to lists, each styled as a hand-drawing. The basic premise behind this wireframing tool is to keep the mock-ups 'intentionally rough and low fidelity', to encourage as much feedback as possible."
By Peldi
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for June 2019
We find great purpose, joy, and satisfaction in giving. In fact, one of our few company policies is to donate a percentage of our profits each year.
By Amanda
CUSB Ultimate Sponsorship: Summer 2019 Update
This spring, the CUSB Ultimate Teams organized a workshop to talk about Gender Equity in Sports with high school students.
By Laura
UX/UI Links of May 2019
Our favorite UX and UI links from May 2019, featuring articles about designers and developers working together, UI states, growing a design team, and more.
By Leon
By Peldi
Dev Update for May 21 2019
We've implemented some of the biggest customer requests in Balsamiq Cloud this month, with the new desktop apps right around the corner.
By Brendan
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for May 2019
Supporting our community is fundamental to who we are, so this month we'd love to tell you about our Software Donation Policy.
By Amanda