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December 23rd, 2015

A Season to Be Thankful

Another year has gone and here we are, looking back to what 2015 brought us. As usual, Peldi will publish a detailed “looking back” post soon. In short, we...

By Francesca
December 21st, 2015

Tips for Creating Great Screencast Recordings

Need to create a screencast? Here are our tips on the subject!

By Mike
December 9th, 2015

Danelle Bailey: Using myBalsamiq as a Project Hub

"Our team uses myBalsamiq a lot," writes Danelle Bailey in her blog post "How our Design Team uses Balsamiq as a Project Hub". But rather than showing off her...

By Leon
December 2nd, 2015

[Release] Mockups 3.3, Another Big Step Forward!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! We're very excited to share today's release with you. It's a big one, so we're switching the minor number from 3.2 to 3.3 for it....

By Peldi
November 24th, 2015

Free Course on Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups on Udemy

We now offer a free course on Udemy called Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups. It's designed to cover the basics of what Balsamiq Mockups is and how to get started...

By Leon
November 19th, 2015

Docs.balsamiq.com: Our New Static Documentation Site, Powered by Hugo

Last month we released a brand new web site for our documentation - docs.balsamiq.com. We also updated our support site with a new design and layout. This post describes...

By Leon
November 13th, 2015

Pajamas.io Interview with Leon Barnard

My interview with Pajamas.io.

By Leon
November 10th, 2015

Free Course on Rapid Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups on Skillshare

We published a free course for Balsamiq users on Skillshare. The course, Rapid Wireframing: Finding the Right Product Design, is designed for those new to Balsamiq Mockups, but also...

By Mike
Wireframing presentation tips
November 5th, 2015

Tips for Presenting Your Wireframes

Now that they're done, what do you do with them? I recently wrote an article for the Treehouse Blog called "3 Steps to Better UI Wireframes" that provides some...

By Leon
November 2nd, 2015

User Testing Your Balsamiq Prototypes with TryMyUI

The following is a guest post by Ritvij Gautam of TryMyUI. Every designer faces a dilemma: we become so familiar with what we have created that we can't see...

By Francesca
October 26th, 2015

Balsamiq, trasparenza totale, pubblicità gratuita e cultura aziendale

My interview for Italian Indie (in Italian).

By Peldi
October 22nd, 2015

[Release] A Bit of Bug-squashing

Hello friends of Balsamiq! Mockups 3 for Desktop is already super-solid, but we take great pride and joy in making it more and more reliable every day. Squashing software...

By Peldi
October 16th, 2015

David Heinemeier Hansson & Peldi Guilizzoni AMA | Rewrite!

My interview for Business of Software.

By Peldi
October 13th, 2015

[Release] A nice Little Bug Fix Release

Hello friends of Balsamiq! Our latest release had some exciting new stuff in it, so now it's time to do a little "let the dust settle" release to fix...

By Peldi
October 12th, 2015

Welcome Brendan, Virgin and Stefano!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! It is my great pleasure to introduce to you three new members of the Balsamiq family today. Brendan Saricks Brendan is the guy in your...

By Peldi
October 8th, 2015

Company Policies: Time Off to Exercise

Read all about our Time Off To Exercise Policy.

By Francesca
October 1st, 2015

[Release] Mockups 3.2: A Whole New Way to Wireframe!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! Today we have something so exciting to share that we're switching the version number from 3.1 to 3.2 for it. Check it out! Two new...

By Peldi
September 28th, 2015

Plantwise: Using Wireframes to Test Software for Farmers in Developing Countries

This is another great story of a Champion who blogged about a project we couldn't have imagined our software being used for. Abigail Rumsey wrote a blog post called...

By Leon
September 11th, 2015

Peldi's 15 Tips for Public Speaking

Want to give a great public talk? Here are my tips!

By Francesca
September 3rd, 2015

On Working from Home, Better

Balsamiq is a company optimized for working remotely. Of our ~20 employees, only nine live within commuting distance of our only office in Bologna, Italy, and even those employees...

By Leon
August 21st, 2015

[Release] FontAwesome in myBalsamiq, Drag+Drop of Symbols, and More!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! We hope you're having a great summer. We are too, and we're excited to share with you today's releases. FontAwesome everywhere! As you know, we...

By Peldi
August 6th, 2015

Recent and future development of Balsamiq Mockups

My interview for SEIBERTMEDIACorp.

By Leon
July 30th, 2015

[Release] Multiple Selection, 66 New Icons, Horizontal Site Map and Lots More!

Hello again friends of Balsamiq, I hope you're all having a great summer! 🙂 As always, we've been busy improving our little tool for you all, one step at...

By Peldi
July 8th, 2015

[Release] Non-Image Assets!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! We continue to crank out new features and fix bugs for your enjoyment. Today's little big feature is called... Non-Image Assets! Did you ever wish...

By Peldi
July 3rd, 2015

2015 Balsamiq Retreat in the Loire Valley

Since we are a remote, distributed team (9 from Italy, 5 from California, 1 from France, 1 from Germany, 1 from Netherlands, so far - and more are coming!),...

By Francesca
June 24th, 2015

Jay Bennett Uses myBalsamiq for Video Game Prototyping

One of the things we do for fun around here is keep an eye out for the Balsamiq wireframes that people share online in order to learn more about...

By Leon
June 23rd, 2015

[Release] New Calendar Control, Better Font Size Support and TONS of Bug Fixes!

Hello friends of Balsamiq, time for another nice little release! New Calendar Control We finally rebuilt the calendar control so that it stretches nicely and no longer says 2008!...

By Peldi
June 15th, 2015

Creating Polished Wireframes

Balsamiq is optimized for creating rough, "sketchy"-looking wireframes (read why here), but there are some situations where a cleaner, more polished look is more appropriate. These include client presentations,...

By Mike
May 20th, 2015

The Best Mockup Tool

"This is not a paid advertisement nor do I hand out the praise lightly."

By Peldi
May 19th, 2015

[Release] Resizeable Left Panel, New Export to PDF / Print Dialog, and More!

Hello friends! Today's release brings you a couple of often-requested features, and some bug fixes. Let's dive in! New Export to PDF / Print dialog! Mostly for technical reasons,...

By Peldi
May 13th, 2015

Volunteering at BOSS

As I wrote recently, some of us use part of our Professional Development Time at Balsamiq to do some volunteering. We also encourage each other to share our learning...

By Francesca
May 7th, 2015

The Most Important Skill of the Decade: Jeromy Wilson on Prototyping Techniques

"How do you know you're coding the right stuff?" That's the central question in Jeromy Wilson's recent blog post called "The Most Important Skill of the Decade". He believes...

By Leon
May 4th, 2015

Professional Development at Balsamiq

This post is part of a series about our VERY FEW company policies. Read this intro post for some context. We have become hesitant about sharing our company policies...

By Francesca
April 29th, 2015

[Release] Balsamiq Mockups 3.1! Alternates, New Google Drive Plugin, Background Music, and Much More!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! It's only been three weeks since the last release, but A LOT has happened since. In fact, this is such a big update that we're...

By Peldi
April 17th, 2015

How We Got Here: The Road to Balsamiq Mockups 3

The release of Balsamiq Mockups 3 was the biggest release in our history since the original product launch in 2008. For this release we took a leap of faith...

By Leon
April 9th, 2015

[Release] More Little Improvements!

Hello friends! The dust is definitely settling after the big 3.0 release. Bug reports are slowing down, and people are generally happy with v.3. Today's release squashes the following...

By Peldi
April 9th, 2015

Tips for Customer Support

Read the full article.

By Francesca
April 3rd, 2015

[Release] More Bug Fixes and Optimizations!

Another week, another release! As expected after the major update that was v.3, we're in the "let the dust settle" period, fixing bugs here and there as they come...

By Peldi
March 31st, 2015

Why We Switched to Font Awesome for Balsamiq Mockups 3

It was with mixed feelings that we switched to the Font Awesome icon set with Balsamiq Mockups 3. Our original icons were hand-drawn by Peldi's wife Mariah so they...

By Leon
March 27th, 2015

[Release] Second Batch of Balsamiq Mockups 3 Bug Fixes

Hello again friends! We're back with another round of bug fixes. Here's what's new in today's release: We did a major cleanup of the "Save" and "Save As" code....

By Peldi
March 24th, 2015

[Release] First Batch of Balsamiq Mockups 3 Bug Fixes

Hello friends of Balsamiq! We are happy to report that our big Balsamiq Mockups 3 release from two weeks ago has generally been very well received. As is to...

By Peldi
March 10th, 2015

[BIG Release] Balsamiq Mockups 3!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! 🙂 Today is a big day for us: after almost a year of heads-down work, we are releasing the biggest update in our little company's...

By Peldi
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