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Friendly, simple and effective tool for mockups and prototyping
February 15, 2018

Friendly, simple and effective tool for mockups and prototyping

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
  • 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
  • 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
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.
Balsamiq is a great tool for any product and project managers, UX designers, and development teams in general. It helps to communicate ideas and flows. It can also be used to create clickable prototypes that later could be used in user testing. Thanks to Balsamiq a product manager doesn't have to wait for a proper design, they can simply create something themselves and get the user feedback. This way time, effort and money are saved.