Archives / Year: 2017
UX/UI Links, December 2017
Our December selection of UX/UI Links featuring articles about User Experience, User Interface Design, Product Management and more.
Landing Page Design Resources From Your Friends at Balsamiq
Three useful resources to help you get your head around the process of creating a landing page, from the first notes to the final visual design.
Instructional Design Wireframing
Read how an eLearning development team uses Balsamiq as a team collaboration and wireframe demonstration tool to develop online learning for medical residents.
UX/UI Links, November 2017
Our November selection of UX/UI Links featuring articles about User Experience, User Interface Design, Product Management and more.
How We Stay Flat at 30 Employees
We haven't given up the dream of staying flat, even at 30 employees. Here is the route we are exploring, still without managers.
Teaching Customer Discovery and Rapid Iteration
Read how students learn not to focus on building something they want to use, but seek what customers want and will actually pay for.
UX/UI Links, October 2017
Our October selection of UX/UI Links featuring articles about User Experience, User Interface Design, Product Management and more.
Using Balsamiq for Better Design Communication
Designer and UX writer Gregory Wolanski told us how he uses Balsamiq, what are his tips & tricks and favorite tools, and where does it look for inspiration.
A New Chapter: Balsamiq Cloud
Introducing Balsamiq Cloud, our brand new solution for fast, collaborative user interface wireframing. We’re really proud of it! ☺️
Welcome Ali Servet Donmez and Alasdair Manson!
We're excited to introduce to you the two newest members of the Balsamiq family, Ali Servet Donmez and Alasdair Manson!
Announcing: Wireframes to Go!
Announcing Wireframes To Go, a carefully curated free collection of user-contributed controls and templates to use with Balsamiq Wireframes.
UX/UI Links, September 2017
Our September selection of UX/UI Links featuring articles about User Experience, User Interface Design, Product Management and more.
Announcing Balsamiq Wireframes for Google Drive
With Balsamiq Wireframes for Google Drive you and your team can create and collaborate on low-fidelity wireframes, all from within Google Drive!
Spolsky's Four Pillars of Organic Growth
“Revenue, head count, PR, and quality--if one gets ahead of the others, you’re screwed.” An oldie, but goodie we have referred to since 2008!
Software Hustle for Entrepreneurs: Make Your Programming Inexperience a Non-Issue
"Balsamiq is a wire-framing software tool that allows you to clearly map your software design. Think Etch-a-Sketch for grown-ups. It can be that easy."
The Roadmap to Becoming a Web Developer (Updated)
Read this advice from Kamran, the author of the giant mind map / flow chart describing all the technologies used today to build the web.
13 Ways to Create a Prototype on a Limited Budget
“Balsamiq is an incredible app for you to create prototypes. It’s very inexpensive to get started — there’s even a free trial — and, importantly, even non-technical folks can...
6 Cloud-Based Tools That End Digital Disorganization
“If your company has design needs, Balsamiq will be hugely helpful.”
Balsamiq Wireframes for Confluence and JIRA Server
We’re starting to ship updated versions of all of our products that include our new, web-native Balsamiq Wireframes editor!
Coming Soon: Balsamiq Wireframes
Balsamiq Wireframes is our next generation low-fidelity, collaborative wireframing editor. It's better in every way, and about to be released.
UX/UI Links, August 2017
Our August selection of UX/UI Links featuring articles about User Experience, User Interface Design, Product Management and more.
Introducing: UI Design 101
Designing good UI is a craft. We've developed a new section on our website called UI Design 101 to help you create great interfaces, one element at a time.
How to Launch a Project in a Week: BuyMePizza.net
Read how BuyMePizza.net, founded by Brian Watson following the aloha mentality, is injecting happiness in people’s lives one pizza slice at a time.
Giving Back to Our Community by Sponsoring the Bologna Ultimate Frisbee Teams
To give back to our local community, we have decided to sponsor the CUSB Bologna Ultimate Frisbee organization for the next 3 years.
UX/UI Links, July 2017
Our July selection of UX/UI Links featuring articles about User Experience, User Interface Design, Product Management and more.
Welcome Luca, Alberto, Tommaso, and Angie!
It is with great pleasure that we introduce to you four new members of the Balsamiq family! We are also hiring 4 more people over the next few months!
Collaborating on Mobile Health Tools with Balsamiq
Wireframes are ideal for usability testing and participatory design with representative users before and after development.
What's Your Company's "Natural Size"?
Every company has a natural size. Answer this question and you’ll find out what kind of company you should build and how to grow it.
Planning a Company Retreat for a Growing Team
We keep on growing, and this brings new challenges for our company retreats, too. Read how we plan our retreats and what happened in April 2017!
UX/UI Links, June 2017
Our June selection of UX/UI Links featuring articles about User Experience, User Interface Design, Product Management and more.
Max Scheugl's Tips for Usability Testing
An experienced UX Professional's set of processes and techniques to help companies visualize and materialize their digital products ideas.
[Release] 3 New Mobile Controls, and More!
Today's release brings 3 new controls for wireframing mobile interfaces: an App Bar control, and Time and Date Pickers for Android.
Our Vacation Policy: Mandatory Minimum Days
Our vacation policy was: Take some. But we noticed that some employees weren’t taking enough. Now our policy is: Take at least 20 days off a year.
The 7 Best Wireframing and Prototyping Tools for App Makers
“If you're only interested in putting together a wireframe of your app idea, then Balsamiq is the tool for you.”
UX/UI Links, May 2017
Our May selection of UX/UI Links featuring articles about User Experience, User Interface Design, Product Management and more.
The Next Generation of "Coder Kidz"
The mission of the #1 not-for-profit tech camp in Australia is to provide the best individualized, hands-on technology education to young kids.
Learn Wireframing by Watching Videos
See UI Design experts while they wireframe new web pages or product ideas, in real time. Get better at wireframing just by watching them!
When and How I use Balsamiq
"I know designers who claim that friends don’t let friends use Balsamiq. I don’t agree with that. I use Balsamiq, I like it a lot, and I recommend it....
UX/UI Links, April 2017
Our April selection of UX/UI Links featuring articles about User Experience, User Interface Design, Product Management and more.
[Release] Stretchy Phones, New Icons, and More!
We keep improving Balsamiq Mockups 3, based on your requests. You can now stretch mobile controls vertically, use FontAwesome 4.7 icons, and more!
Becoming a One Person Software Business
If you want to run a successful software business, try to solve your own frustrations or problems - it brings passion to what you do!