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Weekly Release: Little Improvements All Over

Hi there. Hard to give a good title to this blog post since the improvements and bug fixes we did this week really span the breadth of the application....

Weekly Release: Performance, Bug Fixes and More...

Hi there. Sorry we skipped the last two weeks but things have been really busy here at Balsamiq central - we are days away from starting up the private...

Balsamiq Studios

My interview on the techZING! podcast.

Weekly Release: WebORB Integration and More

Hi there. The main feature of this week's release is the previously announced WebORB integration. The nice folks at MidnightCoders (the creators of the WebORB application server for RIAs)...

Atlassian Summit Trip Report

Last week we participated in the Atlassian Summit, Atlassian's first worldwide conference and Balsamiq's first foray in being a conference sponsor. Below is an account on what happened and...

Mockups for Confluence: New Small and Personal Licenses!

Hello everyone! It is my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of two new Mockups for Confluence licensing options: the new Small license level:  10 mockup editors for just...

Weekly Release: New Default Font (On OS X) And More

Hi everyone! We have a fresh new update for you to download. Here's what's in it: If you are on a mac, the default font for Mockups is now...

Matilde's Mockup of Her Ideal Computer

My friend Nazim just sent me this photo of a paper wireframe designed by his friend's daughter Matilde, who is six years old: Aside from the awesome alphabetical keyboard...

Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups

“Building a wireframe with Balsamiq Mockup is as simple as dragging UI widgets from the gallery onto your canvas.”

Interview with CEO Peldi Guilizzoni about the growth of Balsamiq

My interview with Signal Vs Noise.

Weekly Release: Improved Presentation Mode

Hi everyone. Apologies for not doing a release last week, but we're really busy with lots of very exciting projects and we grew as a company! So in a...

Swt->Bmml: An Interesting New Mockups Extension

Hi there. I wanted to share with you an interesting new little project by Max Rydahl Andersen, a core developer at JBoss (@maxandersen on Twittter). In short, it's a...

Please Welcome Valerie Liberty to the Balsamiq Family

Hi everyone. It is with immense pleasure that I get to introduce to you Ms. Valerie Liberty, Balsamiq's #2 employee and "Chief Operating Officer, Wow! Division." I've known Valerie...

Why I Haven’t Been Blogging as Much

Hi there. If you've been following this blog for a while you already know that lately I haven't been sharing as much as I used to. It's true and...

Weekly Release: "Failed to Save" Alert and Other Little Things

Hi everyone. This week's release is a small one since we're still mainly focused on the Mockups web application and on lots of other behind-the-scenes changes we hope to...

Dire la vérité - Balsamiq, société italienne

My interview for Newzy Magazine (print edition).

Weekly Release: Bug Fixes and Better Scaling

Hi there, apologies for not posting about the weekly release last week. We actually did do a bug-fix release but didn't have time to post about it. So here's...

Interview with App The Rent

My interview with Simon Graham of App the Rent.

Show Me Your Wireframes! (My Response to Andy Budd)

Hi there. I'm not sure if my comment over at Andy Budd's blog got trapped in a spam filter or what, but since it was pretty long and had...

Gary Vaynerchuk on Passion

Be humble, work HARD, hussle, be patient and passionate about what you do. Be so good they can't ignore you, actually genuinely CARE about your customers, be transparent, take...

Mockups 1.6 Release: Linking Mockups, and More!

Lots to share, but here's the main announcement: You can now link Mockups together! Simple as that. 🙂 At the moment the feature only works in Mockups for Desktop,...

Like a Kid in a Candy Store

Startup Interviews: Balsamiq Studio LLC

My interview with Antonio Cangiano of Programming Zen.

My First Month at Balsamiq Studios

Hi everyone, I'd like to share with all of you my impressions of the first month as Balsamiq employee. It was an exciting, productive, revolutionary, life-changing month. In one...

Weekly Release: Tricky Bugs and CTRL+R

Hi there. This week we've been focusing on the hosted version of Mockups (it's coming along really nicely!), but we found some time to fix some long-standing tricky bugs...

Interview with Peldi Guilizzoni about Balsamiq Mockups

My interview with Peter Elst.

Weekly Release: “Snap on Center” and Other Little Things

Hello everyone, we hope you're having a great day! We've been busy this week with one big feature and lots of little improvements and bug fixes. Snap on Center...

Weekly Release: A Proper Certificate!

Hi all, this week's free update comes with a new digital certificate and a host of bug fixes and performance improvements. The dialog above is what you will see...

Weekly Release: Open Recent

Hi all, Marco here with my first ever blog post as a Balsamiq employee! 🙂 This week's update, as Peldi anticipated, adds "Open Recent >" to Mockups for Desktop....

Moving the Weekly Release Day to a Week-Day

Hi there, just a quick note to let everyone know that I have decided to move the release day to Mondays or Tuesdays instead of Sundays. I want Marco...

999 Followers, or How My Twittering Has Changed

Hi there, I thought I'd celebrate my 999th Twitter follower with a little blog post I've wanted to write for a while. Back when I first started using Twitter,...

Atlassian Webinar Video and Slides

Hi there. For those of you who came to the Atlassian Plugin of the Month webinar today, thanks so much for attending! Huge thanks to Oren Teich of Replicate...

Introducing Marco Botton, Balsamiq's 1st Employee

Feeling a great mixture of excitement, pride and trepidation, it is my pleasure to introduce to you Marco Botton, Balsamiq's first full time employee. How did this happen? A...

iPhone Controls, New Icons and Much More!

Hello everyone! This week's free upgrade is a big one. So big, in fact, that it took two weeks to finish. 😉 Here's what's new: A New Background! The...

Killer Mockups Webinar: Feb 25th, 10:00AM PST

Hi there. I am SO excited I can barely type. The news: I am co-hosting a "Plugin of the Month" Webinar for Atlassian next Wednesday (Feb 25th, 10:00am PST)....

No Update This Sunday

Hi there, just a quick note to let everyone know that I won't be publishing an updated build this Sunday. I am in the middle of too many interrelated...

Weekly Release: Lots of Little Things

Hi there. This week's release brings about a bunch of bug fixes and little improvements here and there. I still have lots to do so I'm releasing this one...

Meet Riley - 8 Year Old, Application Designer

I just received the following email, which I am publishing with permission: Daugher using Mockups I absolutely love Mockups. I run a software practice and we have about 40...

Weekly Release: Bug Squashing Time

I have added a lot of new code in the last few weeks, so it makes sense to focus on quality for a little while. Here's the full list...

2000 Customers

Hi there, just a quick post to record the fact that today marked the 2000th customer of Balsamiq Mockups. That's 2000 monetary transactions, the number of Mockups users could...

My Bookshelf

Hi there, a couple of people have asked me for this so I quickly put together this collage of my home office's bookshelf, as well as my e-books folder....