Good Tool for Quick Mockups
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 …
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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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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.
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Balsamiq has proven to be a valuable tool for various departments and teams within organizations. Users have found that Balsamiq is particularly useful for creating wireframes and low fidelity prototypes in the early stages of the design process. This helps teams and clients focus on user flows and on-page content, allowing for quick iterations based on user feedback. Balsamiq has also been utilized by product management departments as an alternative to more complex design software like Photoshop or Illustrator, enabling the quick mocking up of layouts and workflows. Additionally, Balsamiq has been used by software development teams to visualize new feature enhancements and refine requirements based on customer feedback. Multiple departments across organizations have found value in Balsamiq's ability to set up mockups quickly, refine requirements, and gain approval for project planning. The software has also helped standardize the design process and improve communication between marketing and design channels. Overall, users appreciate Balsamiq for its ability to create low fidelity wireframes early in the design process, allowing for a focus on layout before getting distracted by colors and other design elements.
Based on user reviews, here are the three most common recommendations for Balsamiq:
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Use Balsamiq for quick prototypes and wireframes. It is recommended for creating talking points and drafting design concepts. The software is particularly useful for rapid low-fi comps and prototypes, making it a great choice for beginners learning about user experience design.
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When working on more complex applications, consider exploring other options in addition to Balsamiq. While Balsamiq is suggested for wireframing needs and offers a free trial, users also recommend checking out alternative wireframe tools that may better meet specific UI element needs or pricing requirements. They suggest considering other tools after the initial design sprint.
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Reach out to Balsamiq's support team for any questions or assistance. Many users appreciate the helpfulness of the support team and find it beneficial to have access to assistance while using the software.
Overall, users find Balsamiq to be an easy-to-use tool for wireframing, especially for quick prototyping and creating basic wireframe concepts. It is considered a good option for beginner designers and teams working with difficult stakeholders. However, some users mention that as users progress in their careers and require more advanced prototyping tools, they may need to explore alternatives to Balsamiq.
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January 04, 2024
Good Tool for Quick Mockups
- Better Collaboration: This helps me do better collaboration with the cross-functional teams. It helps to make any layman understand the problem statements & their solutions & scope in a visual format.
- Time Saving: its quick to mock up the UI that you want to get developed and hence the lead time reduces.
- Early Feedback: the wires can be shared with the entire team at the beginning of the dev cycle to get early feedback on the UI.
- Increase client engagement
- Reduce time and effort for creating wireframes
- Increase discussion and team collaboration
- Save money from not having to scan drawings
- Reduce rework when going to prototype
August 08, 2021
Balsamiq is an excellent tool for prototyping interfaces, it can be expensive but if you are a not for profit it is usually free
- Can be expensive but luckily Balsamiq granted my organisation a free licence due to not for profit status
- Integration with Google Drive as a standard feature, at the moment you have to pay extra
March 02, 2020
Balsamiq is Sweet
- ROI is neutral. We've used it enough to justify the price.
- People like the interface, so we use it mainly on customer-facing projects.
- We also have Visio, so if it doesn't work well in Balsamiq, we go over to Visio.
- Ease of use—We have saved time and money by quickly onboarding new designers and non-designers to Balsamiq. The tool is extremely easy to use, so we can spend our effort and time in a more productive way than training someone on yet another tool.
- The ability to quickly create low-fidelity wireframes that look very Sketch-like have led to the ease of communicating design ideas with stakeholders in an efficient, productive way. By communicating to stakeholders that a lo-fi design is “just an idea,” we’ve been able to have a lot of productive conversations that lead to solving design issues before we’ve spent a lot of time creating more detailed wireframes and prototypes. By that, we’ve saved a lot of cost in having to redesign things by catching issues early in the design process. In creating more polished designs, we’ve wasted a lot of time having stakeholders nit-pick about the fine details of a design. Balsamiq helps us avoid that wasted time and resources.
- Again, ease of use has led to considerable ROI in many ways. Another way that its ease of use has benefited us is that we’ve been able to quickly iterate upon initial designs in a very fast way. Instead of taking weeks to begin and end a feedback loop, we can quickly hop onto Balsamiq, make quick edits, receive feedback, and integrate them within a day or two. For example, if a stakeholder says they want a design to look completely different from the initial version, it’s no big deal because Balsamiq makes it easy to do that. With other tools, creating a brand new design can take hours and hours, while Balsamiq has typically enabled us to create designs in less than an hour or two.
- Faster iteration time on website development.
- Little time spend learning new tools.
- Low cost of software.
- Reduced dev cycle time on affiliate websites by 40%
August 02, 2018
Perfect for sketching out a UI/UX for clients!
- The product works very well for showing product owners and developers design ideas for purposes of discussion, debate and refinement.
- The products also works very well for specifying new designs for developers. This is best done in a series of screens that show various screen states and user interactions.
- I also use the products to document bugs in software products and websites we have developed. This includes outlining and documenting bugs and changes to user interactions and refinements to the usability of completed interfaces and user experiences.
July 31, 2018
Great wireframing tool
- Balsamiq has saved us time in the early phases of projects, where we want to show layout without distracting the client with other elements.
May 29, 2018
Balsamiq - Simple Wireframes
- Balsamiq saves us time by allowing us to create quick mock-ups that address client needs as they arise. We don't have to spend hours in a more complex design software like Photoshop to answer a simply question.
- Balsamiq has a very easy learning curve. This allows us to free up design resources. We don't want our designers focusing on simple landing page mockups or display ads. Interns can easily use Balsamiq to create mocks for quick client approval without disturbing our more expensive employees.
- Balsamiq helps our clients focus on user flows and contents rather than graphics, which often leads to better final designs.
May 21, 2018
Balsamiq is efficeint!
- The wireframes can be produced in a very clean manner using Balsamiq so that the development team can understand the mockups without much explanation.
April 26, 2018
An excellent tool to design applications
- Significantly improved planning and delivery times.
April 13, 2018
Amazing for fast prototyping
- It allows for a rapidly paced company where you need to move fast and iterate based on feedback (and you don't have a big team to do that).
March 21, 2018
Amazing solution for quick, iterative wireframing
- It has definitely saved time when negotiating interface changes with a large variety of stakeholders
- Building a new layout is very quick and saves a lot of time when prototyping any clean basic interface
- All of this eventually leads to better functionality for less money, which while hard to quantify is very useful
- The only potential negative impact is that the design features are limited so may discourage the use of custom features which would have been particularly useful.
March 16, 2018
My designs with Balsamiq
- Significantly improved planning and delivery times.
- Rework is significantly reduced, because after the information is collected, the models are made and they are reviewed with the client, showing the flow, fields, etc.
- Projects close on time and it is easier to visualize with the client to approve scope changes, which translates into time and money.
February 15, 2018
Friendly, simple and effective tool for mockups and prototyping
- Balsamiq empowered [our] product team to create prototypes without using design resource
- Prototypes can be created faster which means more iterations and faster delivery
February 01, 2018
Balsamiq - Easy Peasy
- The yearly cost is totally reasonable. My manager looked at me like "Why are you bothering me with this? Just expense it."
- For the newbies that roll on, I just have them poke around on the site and find training that suites them. I've done that multiple times and there training is fine. I only answer questions after they've tried their hand at it first. Easy to pick up.
- You have to pay by credit card, which was an annoyance to Accounting. They prefer an invoice. But it wasn't a difficult hurdle to overcome.
September 28, 2017
Balsamiq review from a Designer
- It can be more time-consuming to "think" while designing in Balsamiq. It is still faster to rapidly sketch/think and then maybe translate a final design to Balsamiq for consistency.
- Setting up each button, module, navigation, option in Balsamiq is initially time-consuming - but the payoff is high when some sections can be copy-pasted - they add to consistency and time-saving eventually.
August 30, 2017
Balsamiq: Easy Tool for simple Wireframing & Prototyping
- I like that we were able to buy the program for one lump sum payment and didn't have to keep paying each month like Photoshop makes you do.
- Definitely good ROI as we were able to complete some wireframes for a software pretty quickly.
February 24, 2017
Cooking Up Quick Mockups
- Balsamiq has helped us move quickly with creating mockups for new features or improvements to existing features.
- It has also helped unify the tool set that the UX team uses so we can share workload.
- Balsamiq has allowed new users that are not previously familiar with robust graphic design software (ex: Adobe Illustrator) to get up and running quickly. The learning curve is very short.
February 15, 2017
Faster Friendlier tool - Balsamiq
- It has improved collaboration within our team. We communicate ideas with it faster
- It is a good tool for initial design phase or redesign phase and helped our company with the same
- But we did purchase different tools for more interactivity
December 01, 2016
Get your hands on Balsamiq and become stress free.
- It had a positive impact overall on the business in terms of Return on Investment.
- It certainly increased the productivity within the project.
- It would have been great if it also had a feature to collaborate as well.
December 01, 2016
Simple, Quick, and Easy Wireframing
- Balsamiq is extremely inexpensive, which means that any benefits gleaned from it are almost pure gain. It requires no upfront costs or IT involvement to install or administer (we use the web based version).
- The biggest gain we see is minimizing development time. We now spend more time reviewing designs before they are implemented and making sure that they are going to work, before committing them to code. It is so much easier, faster, and cheaper to amend a wireframe than to rewrite code.
- Conversely, if you are spending a ton of time putting together Photoshop/Illustrator mockups, you will save yourself a lot of design time by creating simpler mockups. In cases where the visual style and components are already set, making designs pixel-perfect often is not necessary.
November 07, 2016
Communicate your design quickly to start a conversation
- I think that being able to use Balsamiq saves UX time and gives us opportunity to work on more projects.
September 27, 2016
Great tool to get out in front of planning problems
Score 9 out of 10
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- Balsamiq is a great tool for getting management and implementors on the same page before work is started.
- Balsamiq keeps us from discovering implementation gotchas after we have been on the job for a while. It saves us from having to go back to the drawing board, since we are already there.