Archives / Year: 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...
Tips for Creating Great Screencast Recordings
Need to create a screencast? Here are our tips on the subject!
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...
[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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Balsamiq, trasparenza totale, pubblicità gratuita e cultura aziendale
My interview for Italian Indie (in Italian).
[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...
David Heinemeier Hansson & Peldi Guilizzoni AMA | Rewrite!
My interview for Business of Software.
[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...
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...
Company Policies: Time Off to Exercise
Read all about our Time Off To Exercise Policy.
[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...
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...
Peldi's 15 Tips for Public Speaking
Want to give a great public talk? Here are my tips!
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...
[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...
Recent and future development of Balsamiq Mockups
My interview for SEIBERTMEDIACorp.
[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...
[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...
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!),...
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...
[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!...
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,...
The Best Mockup Tool
"This is not a paid advertisement nor do I hand out the praise lightly."
[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,...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
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...
[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...
[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...
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...
[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....
[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...
[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...