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Multiple product versions - Balsamiq, Leon Barnard
My interview with Docs Like Code.
By Leon
UX/UI Links, March 2017
Our March selection of UX/UI Links featuring articles about User Experience, User Interface Design, Product Management and more.
By Jessica
By Peldi
The Keys to Satisfaction as a UX Designer
Follow Sofia's advice: work on products that have a positive impact, find empathy with your end users, and work with colleagues as one team.
By Leon
Best Balsamiq Sightings of 2016
Not only websites and apps: see the best Balsamiq wireframes from last year and get inspired by these examples! And please, keep them coming!
By Francesca
How to Share Customer Feedback With the Rest of the Team
We created a system for sharing positive and negative customer feedback internally. It has helped us raise team morale and improve cohesion!
By Virgin
About Yesterday's Balsamiq Outage
A quick retrospective and an apology for our Feb 29, 2017 outage. The root cause was an AWS outage which took down over 120,000 sites.
By Peldi
[Release] New Little Feature in Mockups 3 for JIRA Cloud, and Bug Fixes!
While most of the team is focussed on the next major version of our products, we continue to fix bugs and make improvements to the current version.
By Peldi
Chris Bland on Life Before Balsamiq
Pencil and paper, PowerPoint, huge functional description... How do you create UI mockups? New techniques can solve existing business problems.
By Leon
Looking Back at 2016
We continue to truck along nicely, executing on our vision. 2016 was yet another record year for us, with sales almost reaching $6.6 million.
By Peldi
How Game Designers Rapidly Prototype Ideas Using Balsamiq
Read how 5 game designers use Balsamiq wireframes and other rapid prototyping techniques in their workflow to work faster and smarter.
By Leon
Welcome Stefano Gozzi and Philip Nittenberg!
Hello friends! We're excited to introduce to you the two newest members of the Balsamiq family, Stefano Gozzi and Philip Nittenberg!
By Peldi
Finding The Human: The Customer Support Starter Pack
Customer service can be hard when you're on the receiving end of an angry call. Brendan offers some ideas for empathizing with your customers.
By Brendan
Justin Witz on Standing Out in a Rapidly Growing Industry
We met Justin Witz at the 2016 Atlassian Summit in San Jose, CA. He's a customer, fan, and entrepreneur. His enthusiasm and sincerity endeared him to Val and now we're all fans of him too! He used Balsamiq Mockups...
By Leon
UX Apprentice in Multiple Languages
Part of our mission at Balsamiq is to spread the knowledge of User Experience. We have been tweeting more about it (both at our @balsamiq and @uxapprentice accounts), sharing useful resources via our social channels, writing blog posts and...
By Francesca
By Peldi
Nathanael Coyne on Getting UX the Respect it Deserves
You may know our latest Champion, Nathanael Coyne, from his top-notch UX blog purecaffeine.com. In it, he chimes in on many of the hot topics in UX discussions today, often with well-reasoned arguments against conventional wisdom. This post on...
By Leon
Balsamiq Raffles: Free Tickets to Great UX Events
We are always exploring new ways to connect with our community and reciprocate their love and support. We give free licenses to educators and do-gooders, we open-source part of our software, we sponsor lots of events in the industry,...
By Jessica
Remote Work: What's Hard, What's Great, and How to Stay Connected
More and more companies are embracing remote working. For those who are considering it or have just made the leap, there are a lot of resources to learn from, such as the Zapier's Guide to Remote Work. Here are...
By Francesca
Join Bridget Harris, (YouCanBookMe) and Peldi (Balsamiq) to discuss remote working and more...
My interview for Business of Software.
By Peldi
By Mike
Simprints - Simple Fingerprint Identification for the Developing World
Tristram Norman is CTO of Simprints, a nonprofit that has created a simple, secure fingerprint identification system for a range of projects in developing countries. Tristram calls it "a social enterprise aimed at solving the identification gap in low...
By Leon
Gret Glyer of DonorSee
Gret Glyer is the founder of DonorSee, an app that greatly simplifies and personalizes charitable giving. He used Balsamiq Mockups for the first draft of his app and agreed to share some of his early wireframes with us. I...
By Leon
[Release] A Small Bug Fix Release
Hi friends of Balsamiq! Have we mentioned how much we love our community lately? You all are awesome, we appreciate your feedback and bug reports so much. You're truly good citizens of the web, taking the time to report...
By Peldi
How and Why We Give Away Swag
Giving gifts is a win-win situation. You make customers happy, cultivate loyalty, and get good marketing results simply by being generous and grateful. Today we want to share our experience about how to and why we give away swag,...
By Jessica
[Release] Mockups 3.5! Improved Material Design Support, iPhone 7, macOS Sierra Compatibility, and More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another exciting release! Improved Material Design Support! We have added some controls and properties to make it easier to create designs inspired by Material Design. A new generic Smartphone control! Check it out!...
By Peldi
[Release] A Nice Little Summer Release
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We hope you've all had a great summer and are energized for a productive autumn and winter! 🙂 Some of us took some time off, but that didn't prevent us from fixing a few bugs...
By Peldi
Jane Portman Cooks Up UI Breakfast
Jane Portman is the creator and author of UI Breakfast, a practical resource full of UX design and business lessons based on her extensive experience with both. It also contains an amazing column called UI Practicum where she tackles...
By Leon
Welcome Drew Lafferty and Lizelotte Green!
Hello, friends of Balsamiq! Our not-so-little-anymore team keeps on growing! Today I would like to introduce to you our two new team members: Drew Lafferty and Liz Green! Drew Lafferty Drew is a jack-of-all-trades Developer / DevOps, based in...
By Peldi
Edit the Balsamiq Docs!
We've made it easy for anyone with a Github account to submit edits to our documentation. As we've written about before, improving our documentation has been a focus of ours for a while. We've gone from one or two...
By Leon
Scott Gallant on Adapting to Succeed
Not long ago we received an email from Scott Gallant in response to our blog post about our new Hugo-powered documentation site. He said he was building a Content Management System (CMS) for websites running on Hugo and Jekyll,...
By Leon
Volunteer Opportunities for UX Designers or Developers
Photo Credits: Code for America We spend years developing skills and craft to further our careers. That experience becomes a valuable resource that may be put to good work in the form of volunteer time or pro-bono work for...
By Mike
Balsamiq Summer Camp: How We Planned Our 2016 Retreat
Annual retreats have become an essential part of working together at Balsamiq. From our first gathering as an entire company in 2010, we realized seeing each other face to face is an essential part of building awesome relationships in...
By Natalie
[Release] A Nice Little Bug-Fix Release
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another release! This one is pretty small, it just fixes some bugs and adds a new little feature in Mockups 3 for Confluence Cloud. Easier Export to Confluence We now made it easier...
By Peldi
Wireframes: A New Tool for Marketers and Content Writers
Let's imagine. The Marketing Department just created the ultimate inbound strategy; the plan has been handed off, and now it's the copywriter's, designer's, and developer's turn to make their individual contributions and get the best results. But, how can...
By Jessica
Thank You Balsamiq
"I am most appreciative for the software and for the path it has revealed. Thank you Balsamiq for providing me with my palette."
By Peldi
[Release] Balsamiq Mockups 3 for Confluence Cloud!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! A couple of months after releasing Mockups 3 for JIRA Cloud, we're happy to announce that Balsamiq Mockups 3 has come to Confluence Cloud as well! 🙂 You can find it on in Atlassian Marketplace,...
By Peldi
Kate Toon Uses Balsamiq to Transform The Copywriting Process
I recently returned from the Write the Docs 2016 conference in Portland, where people who write documentation, marketing copy, and more gather to talk about the state of all things documentation. As a designer and writer, I came back...
By Leon
Tools We Use for Social Scheduling
Need to schedule posts on social media? Here are some useful ways to do it!
By Francesca
[Release] Mockups 3.4!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Today's release is bigger than our usual ones, so we're switching the version number from 3.3 to 3.4 for it. Let's see what's new and improved: (Optional) Manual Save One of the most daring features...
By Peldi
How We Do Content Discovery
How do you know what content will resonate with your audience? Here are some ways to find out!
By Francesca