Press Mentions
Mandatory time off: When taking holiday is part of the job
"Balsamiq, a software firm with employees in Italy, France, Germany and the US, also switched to mandatory time off when managers realised workers, especially in the US, werenât taking...
The 7 wonders of wireframes
âWe have settled on a tool called Balsamiq for producing finished wireframes. The reason we like Balsamiq is that it is amazingly quick to produce a wireframe, but also...
Donât Build It, Fake It First â Prototyping for Mobile Apps
âThe basic premise behind this wireframing tool is to keep the mock-ups 'intentionally rough and low fidelity', to encourage as much feedback as possible.â
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 âpencil-and-paperâ feel, allowing you to quickly sketch a design and receive feedback...
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...
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...
Save $$ on Your App Development Through Balsamiq
"Balsamiq helps you to quickly create interactive wireframes with various shapes, boxes and texts. With over 500 icons from the Font Awesome Icon Set, Balsamiq could help you easily...
Software Hustle for Entrepreneurs: Make Your Programming Inexperience a Non-Issue
"Balsamiq is a wire-framing software tool that allows you to clearly map your software design. Think Etch-a-Sketch for grown-ups. It can be that easy."
13 Ways to Create a Prototype on a Limited Budget
âBalsamiq is an incredible app for you to create prototypes. Itâs very inexpensive to get started â thereâs even a free trial â and, importantly, even non-technical folks can...
6 Cloud-Based Tools That End Digital Disorganization
âIf your company has design needs, Balsamiq will be hugely helpful.â
The 7 Best Wireframing and Prototyping Tools for App Makers
âIf you're only interested in putting together a wireframe of your app idea, then Balsamiq is the tool for you.â
When and How I use Balsamiq
"I know designers who claim that friends donât let friends use Balsamiq. I donât agree with that. I use Balsamiq, I like it a lot, and I recommend it....
Thank You Balsamiq
"I am most appreciative for the software and for the path it has revealed. Thank you Balsamiq for providing me with my palette."
15 Tech Tools Startups Can't Do Without in 2016
âA beautiful and easy to implement wire framing tool.â
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."
Review of Balsamiq Wireframing Software
"Itâs a fantastic tool that is indeed ârapid,â âeffective,â and âfunâ! On top of that, the price tag is quite reasonable."
The Best Mockup Tool
"This is not a paid advertisement nor do I hand out the praise lightly."
Balsamiq Mockups 3 on Product Hunt
âBalsamiq is by far the best wireframing tool I've ever used. It's a tool that does what it does simply and well. Love it.â
30 Terrific Tools for Small Businesses
âFor your next business presentation, Balsamiq allows you to mockup and design your ideas on a virtual whiteboard so theyâre easier to share, modify, and get feedback on.â
10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualizations
"This is another nice wireframing tool good for creating simple diagrams of web and mobile interfaces. It's $79 for the desktop version, but there's also a free web demo...
Build a Project Mockup Using Balsamiq
"Balsamiq Mockups is a tool that helps developers to create wireframes and communicate with clients and coworkers with visual representations of their design plans."
25+ of the Best Wireframing and Prototyping Tools, Ever
"Try it out, you wonât be sorry. Itâs probably not as an enterprise level tool as say, Omnigraffle or Axure RP, but ignoring it would be a mistake."
9 Excellent Tools for Design Mockups
âPerhaps one of the more well-known and popular mockup tools, Balsamiq Mockups is a cloud-based mockup service (with accompanying desktop application) that enables you to quickly and easily create...
The Ins and Outs of Incubators and Apps
âFirst, build a mock-up of the software in a prototyping program, such as Balsamiq.com, which allows you to sketch out a rough version of what the app will look...
Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop Review
"Balsamiq Mockups is a rapid wireframing tool that lets designers, developers, and other stakeholders all take part in the design process of a new application or website."
Italy's Balsamiq Pours Up New Wireframing Tools
âAfter a little more than two years in business, 75,000+ customers, more than $5 M in sales in 2011, 47% profit margins and 10 full time employees, Balsamiq routinely...
How to Build Your Startup without Learning Code
âI recommend investing in a mockup tool (my personal favorite is Balsamiq), which is very user-friendly given its drag-drop functions.â
If You Build It, They Wonât Come (UnlessâŚ)
âBalsamiq Mockups is a ludicrously popular wire-framing tool. The software is good â donât get me wrong â but what sets Peldi (the founder) apart isnât prescient feature selection...
Lo-Fi Design Is Conquering the World of Tech
âA lesser-known firm thatâs tapped into the lo-fi aesthetic is Balsamiq, whose Mockups software allows designers to create their own user interface as if they are sketching it on...
10 Excellent Tools For Creating Web Design Wireframes
"Using Balsamiq Mockups feels like you are drawing, but itâs digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. With 75 pre-built...
12 Free Or Cheap Web Apps Your Startup Needs Now
âBalsamiq is a very popular app for making mockups of various apps, and rightfully so. It's fun and easy to use, and saves a lot of time.â
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits
âMockups 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...
The New Generation of Kick-Ass Web Apps
âThe Balsamiq story is truly amazing. It's a simple little tool for creating mock-ups of websites.â
Youâre a Little Company, Now Act like One
"Balsamiq Studios is doing it right. Read their company page. Itâs says âHello.â It says âYes, a couple of guys in a studio.â They donât skirt the issues of...
Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups
âBuilding a wireframe with Balsamiq Mockup is as simple as dragging UI widgets from the gallery onto your canvas.â
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Cool Tool for Screen Layout Mockups
"It only took me a few minutes to mock up a pretty reasonable approximation of a SharePoint page layout with no training or documentation â which means this product...
Man Writes Software, Blogs About it, Makes $100k in 5 Months
âWe 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...
Balsamiq Mockups: Deliberately Not Slick
"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...
10 Inspirational âHow I Did Itâ Stories
"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."
Balsamiq Mockups Makes Big Impression on Hacker Community
âSince 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...
Balsamiq, a Mockup Creator in Air, Is on Fire
âItâs a great story of a creative entrepreneur using new technology to address a key market need and finding a healthy number of customers willing to pay for software....