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By Francesca
15 Tech Tools Startups Can't Do Without in 2016
“A beautiful and easy to implement wire framing tool.”
By Peldi
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 public releases in 2014 while we re-wrote our product from...
By Leon
The Balsamiq Marketing Checklist
We do marketing pretty differently at Balsamiq. Read all about it!
By Peldi
[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. 🙂 Let's see what's in today's release. Easier Access to Alternates! Many of you asked for this,...
By Peldi
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 success for female founders." In it she teaches topics relevant...
By Leon
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, location and -maybe- luck. My love for Italy and my...
By Jessica
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."
By Peldi
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 pain. As we grow, many ask us how we did...
By Jessica
The Balsamiq Mantras
To help us do our best work consistently, we use a list of Balsamiq Mantras.
By Peldi
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 but to struggle with what to learn next. Fortunately, our...
By Jessica
[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 Desktop and later to our Google Drive plugin. Well, today...
By Peldi
[Release] Another Nice Little Release
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another nice little release to make you even more awesome at wireframing! 🙂 Let's dive right in. Automatic Repositioning of Aligned Labels This little and nearly invisible feature will save you loads of...
By Peldi
Not Selling Out | BoS AMA with Peldi Guilizzoni
My interview for Business of Software.
By Peldi
By Peldi
By Leon
Ankit Bhangar: Wireframe Specialist
We were flattered to receive an email recently from Ankit Bhangar praising our little tool. Ankit is a UI/UX specialist currently working for inoltrotech.com. He is a long-time Mockups user and has used it for over 40 projects large...
By Leon
[Release] Full Screen Project Centering Rules, Read-Only Mode, and More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We never get tired of making our product better so that you can be even more awesome using it. 🙂 Let's see what's in today's release. Full Screen Project Centering Rules! This is one of...
By Peldi
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, this is going to be a very long post. Summary...
By Peldi
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 ability for each employee to split up their donation between...
By Natalie
Review of Balsamiq Wireframing Software
"It’s a fantastic tool that is indeed “rapid,” “effective,” and “fun”! On top of that, the price tag is quite reasonable."
By Peldi
[Release] myBalsamiq Annual Plans!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! In December we released a new version of myBalsamiq that offers annual plans and billing improvements. You may not have noticed it while creating mockups over the past month, but we hope December's release will...
By Natalie
[Release] "Resize To...", New Combo Box, Arrows Improvements, Easier Project Maps, and More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We hope you all took a refreshing break during the holidays, and wish you all a fantastically creative and productive 2016! We have a small release for you today, and we hope you'll like it!...
By Peldi
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 “looking back” post soon. In short, we have grown, released our biggest update ever, learned a lot...
By Francesca
Tips for Creating Great Screencast Recordings
Need to create a screencast? Here are our tips on the subject!
By Mike
Danelle Bailey: Using myBalsamiq as a Project Hub
"Our team uses myBalsamiq a lot," writes Danelle Bailey in her blog post "How our Design Team uses Balsamiq as a Project Hub". But rather than showing off her team's design work, she describes how myBalsamiq has become a...
By Leon
[Release] Mockups 3.3, Another Big Step Forward!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We're very excited to share today's release with you. It's a big one, so we're switching the minor number from 3.2 to 3.3 for it. Make yourself comfortable and let's dive in! 🙂 A New...
By Peldi
Free Course on Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups on Udemy
We now offer a free course on Udemy called Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups. It's designed to cover the basics of what Balsamiq Mockups is and how to get started with it. It will walk you through the primary features...
By Leon
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 what we did and why we did it. The new...
By Leon
By Leon
Free Course on Rapid Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups on Skillshare
We published a free course for Balsamiq users on Skillshare. The course, Rapid Wireframing: Finding the Right Product Design, is designed for those new to Balsamiq Mockups, but also features some demonstration of new features like Quick Draw and...
By Mike
Tips for Presenting Your Wireframes
Now that they're done, what do you do with them? I recently wrote an article for the Treehouse Blog called "3 Steps to Better UI Wireframes" that provides some wireframing tricks that I've learned in my career as a...
By Leon
User Testing Your Balsamiq Prototypes with TryMyUI
The following is a guest post by Ritvij Gautam of TryMyUI. Every designer faces a dilemma: we become so familiar with what we have created that we can't see aspects of the flow or copy that might be confusing...
By Francesca
Balsamiq, trasparenza totale, pubblicità gratuita e cultura aziendale
My interview for Italian Indie (in Italian).
By Peldi
[Release] A Bit of Bug-squashing
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Mockups 3 for Desktop is already super-solid, but we take great pride and joy in making it more and more reliable every day. Squashing software bugs is fun! 🙂 Here's what we've fixed in this...
By Peldi
David Heinemeier Hansson & Peldi Guilizzoni AMA | Rewrite!
My interview for Business of Software.
By Peldi
[Release] A nice Little Bug Fix Release
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Our latest release had some exciting new stuff in it, so now it's time to do a little "let the dust settle" release to fix some bugs here and there. We were able to squeeze...
By Peldi
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 family that everyone calls when their computer doesn't work. He...
By Peldi
Company Policies: Time Off to Exercise
Read all about our Time Off To Exercise Policy.
By Francesca
[Release] Mockups 3.2: A Whole New Way to Wireframe!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Today we have something so exciting to share that we're switching the version number from 3.1 to 3.2 for it. Check it out! Two new control types: Block and Line of Text Our sweet spot...
By Peldi
Plantwise: Using Wireframes to Test Software for Farmers in Developing Countries
This is another great story of a Champion who blogged about a project we couldn't have imagined our software being used for. Abigail Rumsey wrote a blog post called "Mocking up the Plantwise Knowledge Bank" that described the process...
By Leon
Peldi's 15 Tips for Public Speaking
Want to give a great public talk? Here are my tips!
By Francesca