Case Studies
Jon Matthews on Using Wireframes to Clarify Your Ideas
Our latest Champion, Jon Matthews, recently tweeted about how well Balsamiq works for drawing decision trees, like the one below. He has used it for a long time to...
By Leon
Wayne Chen on Avoiding Common Mobile Product Mistakes
Our latest Champion is Wayne Chen. He wrote an article recently that caught my eye called "Top 10 Mobile Product Management Mistakes And How To Avoid Them (Part 1)"....
By Leon
Glenn Murray on Using Wireframes for Copywriting
Our latest Champion, Glenn Murray, is not a prototypical Balsamiq user. He's a copywriter (although perhaps not a typical copywriter either). He recently wrote an article that opened my...
By Leon
Yarone Goren on Validating Product Ideas with Mockups
Yarone Goren is the founder and CEO of Iteration Group, a product firm that relies heavily on Balsamiq Mockups for its projects. Yarone told me that of the 10...
By Leon
JR Harrell Gets Deep on Flat Design
A few weeks ago I posted an interview with JR Harrell on our Balsamiq Champions blog. He is a UI/UX Designer who shared some great tips about how he...
By Leon
JR Harrell on the State of Design in 2013
JR Harrell is a Denver‐based UI/UX designer. He regularly uses Balsamiq Mockups in his design workflow. He contacted us by email and wrote: As a UI/UX designer, I have...
By Leon
From Product Trainer to Product Owner: Craig J Willis's Story
Our latest Champion is Craig J Willis. Craig is a long-time Mockups user who has used it in both enterprise and, now, startup environments. He wrote to us to...
By Leon
Apps for Good in the Media
Our friend Mark Littlewood just wrote a great article on his Business Leaders Network blog about his visit to the Apps for Good awards presentation evening. In the article,...
By Leon
Ubuntu Uses myBalsamiq for Community Designed Mobile Apps
I recently came across a blog post by Jono Bacon of Ubuntu called "Community Driven Ubuntu Phone Core Apps". It describes the Ubuntu for phones project, which, in the...
By Leon
Jenni Merrifield, Our Community Superstar
I'm happy to introduce our latest Champion, Jenni Merrifield. Jenni is another long-time user and regular contributor to our community forums. She frequently appears in the release notes on...
By Leon
Michael Bourque on Using Wireframes to Tell Stories and Sell Your Ideas
I'm very excited to highlight one of our original Champions, Michael Bourque. Michael began contributing to our community forums in August 2008, just two months after Balsamiq Mockups was...
By Leon
Rev.com Uses Mockups to Help Its Translation Services Stand Out from the Crowd
This week's Champion is Mark Chen from Rev.com. Mark wrote us one of those emails that we absolutely love to get that started with this: "We love using Balsamiq...
By Leon
How GoodApril Used Balsamiq to Save Hundreds of Hours in Building Its MVP
Our newest Champion is Mitch Fox. He is the co-founder of GoodApril, a tax planning software startup. Mitch emailed us after being inspired by reading about Balsamiq Champions to...
By Leon
App Design with 8th Graders
Note: If you are an instructor interested in using Mockups for free, read more here. And go here to apply. On the same day my 14-year old son was...
By Val
Apps for Good
Today's Champion is Satwant Kenth. Satwant is a Course Specialist for Apps for Good, an educational program in the United Kingdom. What is Apps for Good? Apps for Good...
By Leon
Using Balsamiq in the Enterprise
Today's champion is Floyd Price. He is one of the founders of a company called Code Spaces. He wrote an article called "Using Balsamiq Mockups in the Enterprise" about...
By Leon
Using Balsamiq for Information Architecture and Wireframing
Today's champion is Puya Turkiyan. He recently wrote an article on his blog called "Using Balsamiq For Information Architecture & Wireframing". He is an SEO Specialist in the Internet...
By Leon
About Balsamiq Champions
Balsamiq Champions is a blog dedicated to the users and fans of Balsamiq. The idea came from a few different sources. The first was a blog post by Kevin Kelly in...
By Leon
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...
By Mike
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...
By Peldi
Guest Post: The Product Group
Hi everyone! The following is a guest-post by Jeremy Horn, organizer of The Product Group, a meet-up for Product Managers based in New York City. The group is currently...
By Peldi
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...
By Peldi
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...
By Peldi