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Andrea Serra Joins Balsamiq!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It is my great pleasure to introduce to you Andrea Serra, the latest member of the Balsamiq family. Andrea is a client-side developer who will be focussing on our myBalsamiq wireframe editor, at least at...
By Peldi
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 introduced. In addition to answering community questions, he has suggested...
By Leon
New Release: File Browser Position, Fixed Printing, Fixed Copy/Paste on Windows 7, and Lots More!
Hi there! Time for another great little release! Let's dive right in. New in Mockups for Desktop: File Browser Position! Working on large projects in Mockups for Desktop? Tired of those tiny file tabs at the bottom? We have...
By Peldi
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 at Rev.com and would like to be able to tell...
By Leon
Meet Michele and Ben!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another week, another piece of good news. No, two! đ We hired a new team member to speed up our software development, and we partnered with a long term friend's company to improve our software...
By Peldi
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 share his story of using Balsamiq Mockups to help focus...
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 inspired by this video about how everybodyâincluding kids-- should learn to code, I...
By Val
Meet UX Apprentice
Hello friends of Balsamiq, we have a very exciting new resource to announce today! Balsamiq Mockups has helped democratize interface design in the communities who use it. A broad range of people coming from different roles and fields have...
By Mike
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 is an acclaimed education movement where young people in schools...
By Leon
Balsamiq Partners with Aramis B.V.
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that Balsamiq has entered a long-term partnership with Aramis B.V., a Dutch software development company owned by my long-time friend Stefano Masini. Aramis is going...
By Peldi
A Quick Little Bug-fix Release
Hi everyone! We just did a little release to fix a few bugs uncovered by last week's release. Here's what's new: All versions: fixed issues with selecting Arrow controls when zoomed and when inside groups. All versions: fixed alt+drag...
By Peldi
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 how he was able to break conventions in a traditionally...
By Leon
Release: Collapsable Property Inspector, Better Arrows, All New Mockups for Confluence, and Much More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another exciting release! Let's get right to it. Collapsable Property Inspector! We have heard complaints about the property inspector getting in the way almost since the very first version of Mockups. Over the...
By Peldi
Anna Mariotti Joins Balsamiq!
It is my great pleasure to introduce to you Anna Mariotti, the latest addition to the Balsamiq family. Anna's main job is to ensure that our growing Italian company runs smoothly. She's going to work on purchasing, managing bills...
By Peldi
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 Marketing industry. In his article, Puya describes how he used...
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 2008 targeted at independent musicians called "1,000 True Fans." Seth Godin then...
By Leon
Using Wireframes in Your Agile User Stories
The Lean/Agile philosophy of "failing fast," continually testing and validating ideas, and working in incremental steps pairs well with the quick, iterative style of wireframing with Balsamiq. Rather than taking weeks to build a fully-interactive prototype, Balsamiq lets you...
By Leon
10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualizations
"This is another nice wireframing tool good for creating simple diagrams of web and mobile interfaces. It's $79 for the desktop version, but there's also a free web demo which is sufficient for simple diagramming."
By Peldi
New Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
Click here for updated Keyboard Shortcut Docs and downloadable PDF. We've updated the Mockups Keyboard Shortcuts cheat sheet to reflect new shortcuts in 2.2. You can view the HTML table and download the printable PDF here.
By Mike
A GREAT Little Release
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Today's release is both great and little. The great part is that we moved to a more modern version of the Flex framework, which allows us to support features we couldn't have supported before (see...
By Peldi
Go from Mockup to Code with Reify
The following is a guest blog post by Raymond Ha of Isomorphic Software. Enjoy! Hi, Everyone, Iâm Ray from Isomorphic Software, the creators of SmartClient and Smart GWT. If you haven't heard of our technology before, SmartClient and Smart...
By Leon
Build a Project Mockup Using Balsamiq
"Balsamiq Mockups is a tool that helps developers to create wireframes and communicate with clients and coworkers with visual representations of their design plans."
By Peldi
[Pre-Release] Performance Improvements, Font Kerning, Links to URLs, Right-To-Left Language Support!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We've been really busy here in Balsamiq-land. The next release of Mockups will include a lot of new stuff, so we'd like to invite you to try it out before we ship it officially (maybe...
By Peldi
Leon Barnard Joins Balsamiq
It's a great pleasure to introduce you all to Leon Barnard, the newest member of our team. We're excited to have Leon onboard to help move our UX and support teams forward. We've known Leon from the very beginning...
By Mike
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 project members. We also fixed some bugs and made some...
By Peldi
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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 wireframe controls. In preparing the skins to work well with...
By Mike
25+ of the Best Wireframing and Prototyping Tools, Ever
"Try it out, you wonât be sorry. Itâs probably not as an enterprise level tool as say, Omnigraffle or Axure RP, but ignoring it would be a mistake."
By Peldi
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 a new "wireframe" skin for you to use in your...
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, a new wireframe skin for you to use and a...
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 with the Balsamiq community about how Mockups can work with...
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 updates First of all, myBalsamiq. As you know, we've had...
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, to help people doing responsive layout wireframes. Toggling Markup visibility...
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 important considerations for any designer - especially if he/she is...
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 it here. Now that we're back, it's time for another...
By Peldi
2012 Balsamiq Company Retreat
My suitcases are not yet unpacked because I have Balsamiq Jetlag Syndrome (BJS). Luis defines that as "A complication of ordinary jetlag, where the subject is kept awake by the steady stream of inspiration resulting from the intense interaction...
By Peldi
9 Excellent Tools for Design Mockups
âPerhaps one of the more well-known and popular mockup tools, Balsamiq Mockups is a cloud-based mockup service (with accompanying desktop application) that enables you to quickly and easily create fun and interactive website mockups.â
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 it at a fixed size, or the content of the...
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 are now available on Atlassian Marketplace! We won't blame you...
By Peldi
The Ins and Outs of Incubators and Apps
âFirst, build a mock-up of the software in a prototyping program, such as Balsamiq.com, which allows you to sketch out a rough version of what the app will look like.â
By Peldi