A couple of little treats

Built-in background music

For years we've been suggesting people use headphones when working on wireframes, to help get in the creative zone. So we asked ourselves: why not give our awesome users a built-in, get-in-the-zone-inducing track to listen to? And so we did!

Just click the Background Music button on the bottom-right toolbar and get to work!

Screenshot of the Balsamiq interface with the background music button highlighted on the left toolbar.

You can also toggle the Background Music on and off using the Play Background Music item in the View Menu.

The track is called Ascension, by Dr. Christopher Lloyd Clarke B.Sc, Msc.D. Meditation music composer and founder of Royalty Free Meditation Music.com.

We cut the track down to 25 minutes, added a Zen bell, then added 5 minutes of nature sounds recorded by Michael Angeles in his hikes around Marin County, CA. We then made the resulting 30-minute track loop.

Why the (25 + 5), you ask? Because this way you can use the music to time your Pomodoros, of course!


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