Archives / Year: 2009
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The New Generation of Kick-Ass Web Apps
โThe Balsamiq story is truly amazing. It's a simple little tool for creating mock-ups of websites.โ
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...
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...
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...
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?...
Free Balsamiq Mockups for UX Training
Hello everyone! ๐ 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Weekly Release: Image Improvements, Bug Fixes...
Hi all. Another week, another release. ๐ 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...
[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...
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...
Another Release! HUGE Performance Boost, Smart Lorem Ipsum, Z-Ordering Shortcuts...
I know, releasing three new versions in five days is a bit excessive, but we're so excited about this one that we didn't want to sit on it, so...
Mockups for FogBugz, Now Shipping!
Hi everyone, just a quick note to let you all know that Mockups for FogBugz is now officially out of beta and available for immediate purchase, both for your...
BAM! Geometric Shapes, Multi-Line Support, Oh My!
Hello friends! We've got a great show for you today! ๐ Let's get right to it. Multi-line Support in the Data Grid and iPhone Menu! You read it right:...
A Little Market-y Post
Hi there, a quick market-y post to let you know about a few things that happened today: We are sponsoring LessConference, a one-day conference happening in Jacksonville, Florida, on...
Weekly Release: Linking in Confluence, Gray Charts and More!
Hi everyone. Here we are again with our weekly update. This one is so big it took us 2 weeks to complete it! ๐ We're releasing it a day...
Letโs Meet in Person for a Change!
Hello friends! Some members of team Balsamiq are going to be attending the following conferences and events this fall: October 4th-7th: Valerie will be in Los Angeles for Adobe...
No Weekly Release This Week, but Weโve Been Busy!
Hi there, just a quick note to let you know that we're not going to do a weekly release this week. We've been working on some big features so...
"Weekly" Release: FogBugz Wiki Integration and More!
Hello everyone! We hope you're having a fantastic first week of September! ๐ We know, we just did a weekly release this past Sunday...so this is not really a...
Youโre a Little Company, Now Act like One
"Balsamiq Studios is doing it right. Read their company page. Itโs says โHello.โ It says โYes, a couple of guys in a studio.โ They donโt skirt the issues of...
Weekly Release: More OS-Native Menus!
Hi there. This week's release is a little early because I wanted to fix Snow Leopard compatibility ASAP. Here's what's new: Mockups for Desktop now sports some newly refactored,...
"Back from Summer Vacation" Release
Hi there, long time no see! ๐ The reason we haven't done a weekly release since last month is that, in typical european fashion, both Marco, Mariah and I...
Napkee Launches!
An Italian engineer living abroad, happily employed by a large tech company, spots a new revolutionary technology rapidly gaining traction and decides to drop everything in order to "get...
Hello World!
Hello world! As a member of Team Balsamiq for just about 3 months now, I have been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and welcoming good wishes from the Mockups community....
Weekly Release: 30-Day Trial for JIRA and More
Hello all. We've been very busy in the last couple of weeks, releasing our first public beta of Mockups for FogBugz and opening up the hosted app's private beta...
Convert Mockups to HTML+Image Maps Prototypes
Hi there. We at Balsamiq are terribly excited about the wonderful community-contributed tools and Mockups extensions that are being developed these days. To introduce the latest one we have...
A New Plugin: Mockups for FogBugz!
Synopsis: Balsamiq Mockups is now also a FogBugz 7 plugin public beta: not for sale but good enough to play with it will go on sale in a couple...
Weekly Release: New Font Sizes, Backgrounds and Bug Fixes
Hi there, this week's release is a small one but important nonetheless. Here's what's in it: Added 24 and 28 font sizes, thanks @Florian_ and @saraonstine for tweeting about...