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What is Balsamiq?

Balsamiq is a wireframing tool that allows users to sketch out user interfaces for websites and web and and mobile apps.

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Good Tool for Quick Mockups

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 4, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
As a Product Manager, I use Balsamiq to create Low low-fidelity mockups of the UI Screens to visually orient the Cross-Functional Teams of the Proposed Solutions. The solution...
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Sumit Kadam
Analyst - Product Management
Associate Product Manager
ZS Associates
Balsamiq3 years of experience

Simple and speedy mockup tool to visualize your ideas before they slip your mind

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 29, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I use Balsamiq for a range of applications. Firstly, I use it for ideation and creating mock ups to flesh out ideas. Secondly, I use it to create wireframes for quick communic...
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Ming Hon
Consultant - Other
Solutions Architect
Clearstream Collaborative Inc
Balsamiq4 years of experience

Balsamiq is Sweet

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 2, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Multiple people at my company use this for software design mockups. We've used it to gain approval for the pages in a customer's portal, including how customers would be funne...
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Karen Chamberlain
Contributor - Corporate
Consultant
HMS Cornerstone Solutions
Balsamiq1 year of experience

When you need to create rough mockups, Balsamiq is the fastest choice.

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 19, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Balsamiq to create quick mockups for website design. This process tends to cover rough drafts, copy, layout, image needs, and other high-level ideas. It's much faster t...
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John Rougeux
Vice-President - Marketing
VP Marketing, North America
Skyfii
Balsamiq4 years of experience

Mockups in a Jiffy makes Basalmiq a welcome tool for agile marketing groups

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 3, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We create a great deal of affiliate properties, and since the business case comes from marketing, we often need to describe mockups in detail to our in-house design team. Bals...
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Craig Orser
Manager - Marketing
Marketing Specialist
E-Brand Marketing Inc.
Balsamiq1 year of experience
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What is Balsamiq?

Balsamiq is a wireframing tool that allows users to sketch out user interfaces for websites and web and and mobile apps.

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What is Balsamiq?

Balsamiq is a wireframing tool that allows users to sketch out user interfaces for websites and web and and mobile apps.

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Balsamiq Cloud is the industry-leading solution for fast, approachable, collaborative wireframing. Check it out at https://balsamiq.cloud

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Simple and speedy mockup tool to visualize your ideas before they slip your mind

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 29, 2023
MH
Ming Hon
Solutions Architect
Clearstream Collaborative Inc (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Balsamiq
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Balsamiq for a range of applications. Firstly, I use it for ideation and creating mock ups to flesh out ideas. Secondly, I use it to create wireframes for quick communication with clients. Lastly I use it for verification and collaboration with clients. I find that it is much more effective for requirements elicitation to have something visual drawn up and Balsamic is fast and easy.
Pros
  • Produce mockups quickly for discussion
  • Producing wireframes
  • Great lofi look and feel gives a unified style
  • Outputs in a variety of formats which makes it easy to share
Cons
  • If there was an option for a grid view of the UI library that would be great
Likelihood to Recommend
Balsamiq is a great tool for quickly getting ideas into visual form. At first it seems like there are not that many UI assets, but this constraint actually adds to the speed. There are less things for you to fuss over, you can focus on getting your ideas down. This is a tool for lofi rough drawings not a tool for building beautiful prototypes for developers to code to. It is fantastic for ideation because you mostly just drag and drop components onto the canvas and move things around. It's great in a live workshop setting for that reason.

Good Tool for Quick Mockups

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 04, 2024
SK
Sumit Kadam
Associate Product Manager
ZS Associates (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Balsamiq
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As a Product Manager, I use Balsamiq to create Low low-fidelity mockups of the UI Screens to visually orient the Cross-Functional Teams of the Proposed Solutions. The solution in terms of new features is created post due diligence of the Business Problem Statements and is shared with the cross-functional team to get their agreement on clarity in problem statement and scope. Balsamiq helps in this process to make the cross-functional teams aware of the UI solution & scope way before the actual high-fidelity wireframes are created.
Pros
  • Ease of Use: The application is very intuitive and needs no to minimum hands on before actually using it.
  • Support for different screens: As the application provides pre-built templates for different devices (web, Tablets & Phones) it saves a lot of time in re-mocking the same UI for different devices from scratch.
  • Good Amount of Wireframing Aid: The application supports an exhaustive list of UI Controls, Icons, Images & Templates which helps in saving time while creating wireframes.
  • Ease of File Managements: Its easy to manage the created Projects.
Cons
  • Black & White UI: the application UI is very boring in terms of color. The entire application is in mostly Black & White which can cause eye fatigue after some time.
  • Lack of colors also leads to lack of muscle memory and hence making the app less intuitive.
  • Conversion from Low to High Fidelity wires: if there was a feature which converted Low Fidelity to High Fidelity wires it would have been great.
Likelihood to Recommend
Balsamiq is well suited to just mock up something in a quick time before actually developing the detailed wireframes.

Balsamiq is not useful when you want to get the detailed wires to be passed on to the engineers to get them developed.

So if you just want to work on the 1st part, then this is a good tool but if it's your job to make the journey from 1st Part to the 2nd then this tool is not the answer.

Balsamiq is Sweet

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
March 02, 2020
KC
Karen Chamberlain
Consultant
HMS Cornerstone Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Balsamiq
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Multiple people at my company use this for software design mockups. We've used it to gain approval for the pages in a customer's portal, including how customers would be funneled and traverse them (depending upon their goals), and how processes would work through APIs we are developing. For this type of design, we previously used Visio.
Pros
  • Toolbar at the top makes sure everything is at your fingertips.
  • Options available are generous and suited to laying out processes.
  • Viewing wireframes easy to see process down the left side of the screen.
  • Adding notes easy for collaboration.
Cons
  • Some of the objects aren't very easy to edit.
  • Adding items to a list not intuitive.
  • Resizing columns isn't easy or sometimes possible.
Likelihood to Recommend
Anytime you have a process to map out to show others we think it works well. It is easy for multiple people to get in, review, and add their thoughts. The look and feel is nice and even the marked-up version with notes looks presentable enough to show management to get approval/buy-in. We still use Visio for things like swim lanes.

When you need to create rough mockups, Balsamiq is the fastest choice.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 19, 2018
JR
John Rougeux
VP Marketing, North America
Skyfii (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Balsamiq
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Balsamiq to create quick mockups for website design. This process tends to cover rough drafts, copy, layout, image needs, and other high-level ideas. It's much faster than using a more technical product and the fact that it's "low res" by design helps collaborators focus on high-level feedback and not get caught up in minutia.
Pros
  • Creating layouts and mockups to get a rough feel for how something looks.
  • Quickly getting your ideas on paper.
  • Preventing you from overthinking design details and keeping you focused on the big picture.
Cons
  • No collaboration ability, would be much stronger if web-based.
  • Support for images is awkward and a bit clumsy.
  • No ability to share files via the web.
Likelihood to Recommend
Balsamiq is great if you're a non-designer and want to share ideas with people who will be executing design or front-end development. It's also good for getting feedback from non-designers as well - the fact that you can only create "crude" mockups helps the people you're sharing with give comments on fundamental issues like content and layout and avoid getting bogged down in fine design details.

Mockups in a Jiffy makes Basalmiq a welcome tool for agile marketing groups

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 03, 2018
CO
Craig Orser
Marketing Specialist
E-Brand Marketing Inc. (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Balsamiq
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We create a great deal of affiliate properties, and since the business case comes from marketing, we often need to describe mockups in detail to our in-house design team. Balsamiq helps us standardize the design process and give an even means of communication from marketing to design channels with little risk of misinterpretation or conjecture.
Pros
  • UX design
  • Easy to learn, easy to pick up and implement for marketing associates without much design experience.
  • Integrates well on browsers and thus makes it easy to present.
Cons
  • Menu interface for adding design elements can be confusing to a newcomer
  • Text input function can be a bit clunky
  • Less-than-stellar performance on non-traditional browsers
Likelihood to Recommend
  • For a business scenario in which marketing is in need of constant design solutions but the structure of the company isn't amenable to sourcing design ideas or there is no process for sourcing UX resources at all.
  • Useful for marketing companies with a primarily online presence. Useful for nascent designers looking to understand the keystones of using design elements.
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