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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...
By Peldi
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...
By Mike
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...
By Peldi
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,...
By Peldi
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...
By Mike
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...
By Peldi
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,...
By Mike
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...
By Mike
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...
By Peldi
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...
By Mike
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...
By Peldi
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...
By Peldi
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...
By Peldi
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...
By Peldi
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...
By Mike
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! π I'm a big fan of using Balsamiq Mockups to...
By Peldi
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,...
By Peldi
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...
By Peldi
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...
By Peldi
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...
By Peldi
Balsamiq β€ 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...
By Peldi
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...
By Peldi
Weβre 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...
By Mike
Crop Is Coming!
Hello friends. Check out this short video of our latest super-sweet feature that's coming soon to Balsamiq Mockups. Isn't it awesome? Go ahead and try it out on the...
By Peldi
Another Little Bug-fix Release
Hi friends, happy new year! While we work on a couple of BIG features (Cropping/masking for images, groups and Symbols, a new wireframing skin and Mockups for iPad), we...
By Peldi
A Nearly Invisible myBalsamiq Release
Hello friends. Today's release is full of improvements, but most of them are behind the scenes. We are still focussed on bug fixing and providing better stability for the...
By Peldi
Release: Helping the Dust Settle after the myBalsamiq Launch
Hello friends! Today's release is mostly myBalsamiq-centric. We launched less than a month ago, so today's update is focussed on making it smoother rather than adding new features. Here's...
By Peldi
Our first public Mockups + myBalsamiq combined release!
Hi friends! This release is particularly exciting to us because now that myBalsamiq is out we can finally post release notes publicly of all that we've been working on,...
By Peldi
myBalsamiq Launches!
Hello friends of Balsamiq. The news we've all been waiting for is finally here: myBalsamiq launches today. What is myBalsamiq? It's a web-based application, it runs in your browser...
By Peldi
Release: Custom Icons!
Hello friends! Today's big feature is the ability to extend our icon selection with your own icon image files. Custom Icons! Starting with today's version, you can now add...
By Peldi
Test the Custom Icons Feature
We've had a lot of people request a custom icons feature in the past. People want to add their own icons to the app and have them appear when...
By Mike
Release: A Grab Bag of Little Goodies!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Today's release brings about a grab bag of little new features and bug fixes. Nothing earth-shattering, but some welcome additions I'm sure. OK here we...
By Peldi
Release: Prettier Icons, Cyrillic Glyphs, Confluence 4.0!
Hello friends! Today's little release brings a few little goodies: Much prettier icons! The work we did to optimize our application's loading time had the unwanted side-effect of making...
By Peldi
New Release: Font Adjustments and More
Hello Balsamiq friends near and far! π We're back from summer vacation and eager to get back to work. We hope you all were able to take some time...
By Peldi
Mockups Font Takes it First Steps
The first version of the Mockups font is now out in 2.1, and I think we have a good start at eliminating the clipping issues we had using Comic...
By Mike
Mockups 2.1!
Hello friends, we hope you're having a great summer! Today's release marks the end of an era for us, as we introduce our very own font. It's a big...
By Peldi
Mockups 2.1 Is Coming Soon: A New Font, a new Era!
Hi all! Just a quick post to pre-announce that Mockups 2.1 is coming out in a week or two. The main change of 2.1 is that we're changing the...
By Peldi
Release: HUGE Loading Time Improvement!
Hi again friends! Today's release main feature is a major optimization to our skin assets and icons, which results in dramatic improvement in loading times for the web and...
By Peldi
Why We Aren't Doing Deep Interaction in Mockups
Opinions matter Every so often we'll get a request to add features that would change Mockups from a sketchy wireframing tool to a prototyping tool. When these requests bubble...
By Mike
New Release: Partial PNG Export and More!
Hello friends! We're back from our retreat and excited to be back at work. Today's release is a fairly small one, but it introduces a little feature that has...
By Peldi
Speed Wireframing a Click-Through Prototype Using Symbols
ββ There's so many ways to use Mockups. I rarely do click-through prototypes, but if I have to, then I count on Symbols and links to make it painless....
By Mike
New Tutorial on Specifying Interaction with Mockups
We've aded a new tutorial in the support section to suggest some best practices for specifying interaction using Mockups. Software designers and developers designing for the screen have an...
By Mike