Archives / Year: 2012
[Pre-Release] Performance Improvements, Font Kerning, Links to URLs, Right-To-Left Language Support!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We've been really busy here in Balsamiq-land. The next release of Mockups will include a lot of new stuff, so we'd like to invite you...
Leon Barnard Joins Balsamiq
It's a great pleasure to introduce you all to Leon Barnard, the newest member of our team. We're excited to have Leon onboard to help move our UX and...
Improving People Management in myBalsamiq, Image Support in Mockups for Google Drive, Link Support in Mockups for JIRA, and More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We just updated myBalsamiq with a new release, focussed on smoothing over one of the roughest edges of the application, the managing of staff and...
Refining the Roughness of 2.2 Controls
If you've been following along with updates to Mockups, with 2.2 out we now have a UI Skin switcher that allows you to use either sketchy controls or straighter...
25+ of the Best Wireframing and Prototyping Tools, Ever
"Try it out, you won’t be sorry. It’s probably not as an enterprise level tool as say, Omnigraffle or Axure RP, but ignoring it would be a mistake."
Balsamiq 2.2 Is Here!
It is with great excitement and pride that I present to you our biggest release yet: Balsamiq Mockups 2.2! The new release sports an updated look and feel, and...
The Last 2.1 Release
Hello friends! We hope you're having a great summer. We've been very busy working on the 2.2 release of Mockups, which will include a new awesome look and feel,...
Wireframing Responsive Designs with Mockups
Responsive layouts using media queries and CSS on the web are exciting. Many Mockups users are doing responsive layouts on their projects or are planning to. We've been talking...
myBalsamiq Updates and Mockups 2.2 Pre-release
Hello friends! We've been heads down for months, but it looks like things are finally coming together and we can start sharing some exciting new stuff with you. myBalsamiq...
Bootstrap Grid Layout Symbol Library
This is a Symbol library with a set of grid layouts using the Bootstrap framework. The different layouts correspond to min-width and max-width media queries for different viewport dimensions,...
User Testing your myBalsamiq Prototypes with UserZoom
The following is a guest post by UserZoom. Testing prototypes and wireframes with unmoderated remote usability testing tools is not only cost-effective, but timesaving as well. These are very...
A Nice Little Bug-fix Release
Hello friends! Hopefully none of you noticed, but two weeks ago Balsamiq took a week off to get together at our 3rd annual company retreat! Val wrote all about...
2012 Balsamiq Company Retreat
My suitcases are not yet unpacked because I have Balsamiq Jetlag Syndrome (BJS). Luis defines that as "A complication of ordinary jetlag, where the subject is kept awake by...
9 Excellent Tools for Design Mockups
“Perhaps 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...
Ideas for Indicating Content Outside of Viewports (Browser Windows, iPhone Screens, Etc.)
UPDATE: Mockups now supports several controls with a breakline. You can learn more about breaklines in this release announcement. Sometimes you want to mock up a box, but show...
Release: Hello Atlassian Marketplace!
Hello friends! My, we've been busy. Lots and lots of cool stuff cooking. The big announcement of today is that our Mockups for Confluence and Mockups for JIRA plugins...
The Ins and Outs of Incubators and Apps
“First, 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...
Peldi interviews John Nese of Soda Pop Stop
My interview with John Nese at Business of Software 2011.
A Bug Fix Update
Hello friends! Today's little update fixes a number of little bugs here and there. As you may notice, some are injections, meaning fixes for code that used to work...
Balsamiq Mockups Now Integrates with Google Drive!
Sep 2017 UPDATE: We have released a new version of Balsamiq for Google Drive. It includes our Balsamiq Wireframes editor, and can be installed from here. I have updated...
myBalsamiq Updated
Hello friends! We just updated myBalsamiq. The process was still rougher than what we'd like, but it definitely went much better than last time. Doing the update on a...
Preview the Mockups Application Chrome Redesign
Hi, everyone. This year we're working on some projects to polish Mockups, and we want to give you a preview of one of them—the redesign of the application interface...
User-Testing your myBalsamiq Prototypes with Kupima
The following is a guest post by John Clark of Kupima. We also interviewed John in our free eBook! 🙂 I'm a big fan of using Balsamiq Mockups to...
WHAT a Release!
Hello again friends! After this morning's total myBalsamiq update disaster, we get back to our regularly scheduled programming... It's been a little over a month since our last release,...
A myBalsamiq Morning to Forget: An Apology
Hello friends. For the second time in the history of Balsamiq, I write you today to apologize for our mistakes. This morning we started what was supposed to be...
Florian Brauer Joins Balsamiq
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It is my great pleasure to introduce to you the newest member of the Balsamiq family: Florian Brauer! We first met Florian in July last...
How to Test Your myBalsamiq Prototypes with Loop11
The following is a guest blog post by Toby Biddle of Loop11. Enjoy! Usability testing for a website in the early stages of development, before design and functionality has...
User-testing Your myBalsamiq Wireframes with Usabilla
The following is a guest blog post by Jurian Baas of Usabilla. Enjoy! When Mike asked me to tell a bit about how Usabilla and myBalsamiq can be used...
MockGen: From Web Site to BMML in One Click
UPDATE: The MockGen service appears to be discontinued as of July 2014. Hello Balsamiq friends! Today I have asked Tim Shnaider to write up a blog post introducing his...
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."
Balsamiq ❤ UX.StackExchange.com
Hello friends! As you should know by now, our main goal as a company is to help rid the world of bad software, one user interface screen at the...
Mocking Up Physical Objects
Update: Help Gabriel and Gabriela create a kit to produce your own tennis chair. Help Kickstart the project here. Who says Mockups is only made for interface design? Tennis...
Release: Crop Images and Groups, and Lots More!
Hello friends! My do we have a lot of awesome stuff cooking up for you. To start, as pre-announced a couple of weeks ago, we are bringing you Image...
Balsamiq Interview on IATV
We took some time out to talk to Jan Jursa on the IATV podcast. Peldi, Jan, and I discussed Mockups and myBalsamiq, wireframes and prototyping, and what's happening right...
Free eBook: Balsamiq Interviews
Hello friends! We have teamed up with Bob Walsh, author of the MicroISV books which have been so useful to me in the past, and asked him to interview...
Italy's Balsamiq Pours Up New Wireframing Tools
“After 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...
We’re Thinking of Making Geometric Shapes Non-markup. What Do You Think?
UPDATE: We've implemented this change. Thanks to everyone for the feedback! We're thinking of making a potentially big change to the Geometric Shape controls to make them not markup...