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[Release] Balsamiq Mockups 3.1! Alternates, new Google Drive plugin, background music, and much more!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It's only been three weeks since the last release, but A LOT has happened since. In fact, this is such a big update that we're calling it 3.1! Don't worry, this is a free update...
By Peldi
How we got here: the road to Balsamiq Mockups 3
The release of Balsamiq Mockups 3 was the biggest release in our history since the original product launch in 2008. For this release we took a leap of faith and went nearly an entire year without releasing any real...
By Leon
[BIG Release] Balsamiq Mockups 3!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! 🙂 Today is a big day for us: after almost a year of heads-down work, we are releasing the biggest update in our little company's history: Balsamiq Mockups 3. Today we are shipping v.3 on...
By Peldi
[Release] Balsamiq Mockups 3 public beta!
Hello? Is anyone still reading this? After being quiet for 10 months, we can understand if you thought we had sent our developers on a long vacation somewhere... 😉 Well, we didn't. In fact, we have been working really...
By Peldi
Looking back at 2014
Hello again friends of Balsamiq! Peldi here with our traditional "state of the union" end-of-year report. You can find previous editions here: 2008, 2009 and 2013. As usual, this is going to be a very long post. Summary We're...
By Peldi
The first wireframes are "Version 3"
Over time, I have learned to consider the first wireframes of any new idea to be "version 3", meaning that, because of how our brain works, we usually tend to put way too many details in them. So, once...
By Peldi
Francesca Fabbri joins Balsamiq!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! I'm Francesca, the seventeenth member of the Balsamiq family. What can we expect from you? My primary role at Balsamiq is to be the Community Manager; you can meet me on all the major Social Networks and...
By Francesca
2014 retreat: Learning from and about
Ride pride Friends, I can't believe it's October. Before summer becomes a distant memory, I want to tell some stories from this year's Retreat. If you've been following our company, you'll recall that our little team has grown a...
By Val
Looking back at 2013
Hello friends of Balsamiq! As 2013 comes to an end, it's time to revive an old tradition (2008, 2009) and look back at all that we have achieved this year. TL;DR: We continue to truck along nicely, growing organically....
By Peldi
The user experience gap
Here at Balsamiq, we hear a lot of stories about people using our application to build great user experiences. We are so proud to be a part of the UX revolution that has taken place over the last ten...
By Leon
Happy 5th birthday, dear Balsamiq!
With the SuperMoon shining upon us, the friends who make up Balsamiq met in San Francisco to celebrate our company's 5th birthday. Our team is scattered around Europe and the States, so being together is rare and deliberate. Our...
By Peldi
Salvatore Cammarata joins Balsamiq!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Our little team is growing again! This time I'd like you to join me in welcoming my good friend and old college buddy Salvatore 'Sax' Cammarata to the Balsamiq family. Sax will take on the...
By Peldi
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
Meet Michele and Ben!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another week, another piece of good news. No, two! 🙂 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our Donation Policy
Giving back to our communities is a big part of our culture, from day one. We started with giving away our software, but in 2011 we decided to do more. These were our goals at the time: Make donations...
By Natalie
Devising a profit sharing program for micro-multinationals
Since we have no plan on ever selling the company or going public, employee stock option programs never made sense to us. Instead, we set up a quarterly profit sharing program, so that employees could benefit from the company's...
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
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 enough change that we feel it warrants a new minor...
By Peldi
Company retreat powers Balsamiq quality boost
Would you trust your software to these people? You bet What is it like when a small, dynamic, distributed software company gets together for a week-long sleepover at the CEO's villa in Italy? How can such a retreat boost...
By Anna
From our retreat: A team that cooks together stays together
One of the hardest things about working with my beloved distributed team (aka balsamici*) is our not being able to see each other in person more often. Just once a year are we together in the same time zone,...
By Peldi
Joy McCrea joins Balsamiq
Hello everyone! I know it's been a while since our last blog post, my apologies. We've been crazy busy with lots and lots of new customers and working on our web app. It's all fun, but the blogs have...
By Peldi
Mockups 2.0: the Symbols release
After months and months of work, we are ecstatic to finally be able to release Mockups 2.0 into the world. The main feature of Mockups 2.0 is what we pre-announced last week, the ability to reuse groups of controls...
By Peldi
Paolo Ottanà joins Balsamiq
It is my great pleasure to introduce to you Paolo Ottanà, the newest member of team Balsamiq. Paolo will be working out of our Bologna office, helping us with lots and lots of different programming tasks. His main responsibility,...
By Peldi
An update from Balsamiq-land!
Hello friends, long time no see! So sorry for not keeping you in the loop more about what's going on in Balsamiq-land. Although it might seem like we're not doing anything from the outside, the last few weeks have...
By Peldi
Our first company retreat
I'm on a boat! Being a Balsamiq employee for just over two weeks, I wasn’t sure my perspective of the staff retreat would be of much value. After all, I don’t yet have a complete grasp of all elements...
By Natalie
Mockups 1.8: editable groups and much more
Hello friends! Wow, it's been 4 weeks since our last update, that's probably the longest we've EVER gone without releasing! I hope you'll agree it was worth the wait. This is one of our biggest updates since we started,...
By Peldi
Biweekly release: version 1.7!
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great easter/spring break and are fully recharged for the months ahead. This is the first blog post from our new web server, so if you find any broken links or anything...
By Peldi
Michael Angeles joins Balsamiq
I can barely contain my excitement as I type this, so I'll get right to it: Michael Angeles, the man behind Konigi and one of the people I look up to the most in our industry, has agreed to...
By Peldi
Balsamiq roadmap for 2010
This is part two of a two-part post about what happened in 2009 and our plans for 2010. We did this last year as well, it's becoming somewhat of a tradition! 😉 By the way, thanks so much for...
By Peldi
A look back at 2009
Wow. Just wow. It's hard for me to believe how much has happened in Balsamiq-land in 2009. I feel like a completely different person than when I wrote the "A Look back at 2008" post, just 12 months ago. In...
By Peldi
An apology
Hi friends. So I made a big mistake today. No, I made a few. I was so excited about the new pan feature that I decided to release it without testing it properly. Not only, I also ran out...
By Peldi
Atlassian Summit trip report
Last week we participated in the Atlassian Summit, Atlassian's first worldwide conference and Balsamiq's first foray in being a conference sponsor. Below is an account on what happened and what we learned from the experience, in hope it will...
By Peldi
Mockups 1.6 release: linking mockups, and more!
Lots to share, but here's the main announcement: You can now link Mockups together! Simple as that. 🙂 At the moment the feature only works in Mockups for Desktop, but with your help I plan on bringing it to...
By Peldi