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Peldi interviews John Nese of Soda Pop Stop
My interview with John Nese at Business of Software 2011.
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 in the past and broke in the previous release. Clearly...
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 the post below with the new link. Hello friends! In...
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 Saturday lowered the stress level considerably. We'll continue working on...
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 or app chrome. Application chrome refers to the user 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! 🙂 I'm a big fan of using Balsamiq Mockups to help shape the design of a new website, or 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, but it sure feels like a lot longer: we've been...
By Peldi
A myBalsamiq Morning to Forget: An Apology
Hello friends. For the second time in the history of Balsamiq, I write you today to apologize for our mistakes. This morning we started what was supposed to be a routine myBalsamiq update. We couldn't do a zero-downtime update...
By Peldi
Florian Brauer Joins Balsamiq
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It is my great pleasure to introduce to you the newest member of the Balsamiq family: Florian Brauer! We first met Florian in July last year, when he posted quite a few detailed and accurate...
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 been implemented, is widely accepted as the most appropriate stage...
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 together I got really excited. We use Balsamiq at Usabilla...
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 new awesome Mockups extension. Enjoy! Peldi Generate mock-ups from web...
By Peldi
Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop Review
"Balsamiq Mockups is a rapid wireframing tool that lets designers, developers, and other stakeholders all take part in the design process of a new application or website."
By Peldi
Balsamiq ❤ 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 time. We try to do so by making and constantly...
By Peldi
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 player and Balsamiq friend, Gabriel Coch posted some great images...
By Mike
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 and Group Cropping / Masking today! We have improved the...
By Peldi
Balsamiq Interview on IATV
We took some time out to talk to Jan Jursa on the IATV podcast. Peldi, Jan, and I discussed Mockups and myBalsamiq, wireframes and prototyping, and what's happening right now with our little company. You can listen to the...
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 nine people with varying backgrounds and job titles to learn...
By Peldi
By Peldi
Italy's Balsamiq Pours Up New Wireframing Tools
“After a little more than two years in business, 75,000+ customers, more than $5 M in sales in 2011, 47% profit margins and 10 full time employees, Balsamiq routinely turns down VC and acquisition offers.”
By Peldi
We’re 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 items. We wanted to discuss the change and get your...
By Mike
By Peldi
How to Build Your Startup without Learning Code
“I recommend investing in a mockup tool (my personal favorite is Balsamiq), which is very user-friendly given its drag-drop functions.”
By Peldi
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 pre-release page, we'd love to hear what you think about...
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 are staying focussed on quality / bug fixes / test...
By Peldi
Our Donation Policy
We're proud to be able to donate to many non-profits each year. Read all about our Employe Donations Policy.
By Natalie
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 web app. Just like with any newborn, the first few...
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 what's changed: All versions: fixed Help and Support links, they...
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, all at once. There are a number of nice little...
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 and is accessible from any computer. It is designed for...
By Peldi
Kyle Dinh Joins Balsamiq
Hello friends of Balsamiq! I am thrilled today to announce that Kyle Dinh has joined the Balsamiq team as full-time employee #10 - double-digits baby! 🙂 Kyle, who's based in San Francisco, starts off with the following three jobs:...
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 your own icons to use in your wireframes. If you...
By Peldi
Creating eBooks with Pages.app
UPDATE: This article was written in 2011, with tools that were available to us then. We'd suggest searching for more modern tools for creating eBooks now. iBooks on left and Kindle on right. We sometimes get asked for downloadable...
By Mike
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 placing icons on the canvas. With Mims Wright stepping in...
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 go: New "Slanted Text" rotation option for Label control We...
By Peldi
Songs for Entrepreneurs
I've been meaning to write this little post for a long time. There are a few songs whose lyrics stuck with me and have helped me along my programmer-to-CEO journey. I want to share them with you in case...
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 our icons a lot uglier. 🙁 Sure Mockups is about...
By Peldi
Looking for an Outgoing DevOps in California
Nov 1st UPDATE: the position has been filled! Go Kyle! 🙂 Hi this is Peldi from Balsamiq. We are a three-year old, bootstrapped and very profitable little company. In order to help rid the world of bad software, we...
By Peldi
Devising a Profit Sharing Program for Micro-Multinationals
Our Profit Sharing program has withstood the test of time. Read all about it!
By Peldi
Our Simple Salary Policy
This post is part of a series about our VERY FEW company policies. Read this intro post for some context. Given that we have different people all around the world and that we are 100% open books internally (i.e....
By Peldi
Pace, not Deadlines
This post is part of a series about our VERY FEW company policies. Read this intro post for some context. At Balsamiq, we don't have deadlines. Ever. It seems so natural to me, but I sometimes get reminded of...
By Peldi
On the Need of VERY FEW Company Policies
I'm not a fan of policies. In fact, the tiny little essay on how policies are bad from Rework is my favorite of the whole book. It's called "Don’t scar on the first cut" - worth buying the book...
By Peldi