Friendly, simple and effective tool for mockups and prototyping
February 15, 2018
Friendly, simple and effective tool for mockups and prototyping
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Balsamiq
Balsamiq is being used in the business in multiple departments and by multiple people, mainly in design, product and project teams. The tool helps to communicate ideas and flows in a quick and effective manner. Balsamiq wireframes are often attached to design briefs which makes the whole creative process much more efficient and successful.
Pros
- Creating wireframes in Balsamiq requires little investment in time or effort
- Balsamiq offers easy to use drag and drop components
- Linking allows creating click-through prototypes that then can be tested
- Balsamiq has lots of built-in user interface controls and icons
Cons
- Linking provides quite limited options for creating interactive prototypes, other similar tools do it better
- Navigation between the screen a in the mockup is sometimes confusing and takes time to set up
- Balsamiq empowered [our] product team to create prototypes without using design resource
- Prototypes can be created faster which means more iterations and faster delivery
- Axure and InVision
Balsamiq is a quite simple tool; but does exactly what was designed for, it helps with creating mockups, wireframes, and flows. Its simplicity works great for people who are not designers but need to visually represent their ideas. Low-fidelity wireframes work really well in development teams, for example when there is no need for sophisticated designs like wireframes of admin screens.
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