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Good Tool for Quick Mockups
January 04, 2024

Good Tool for Quick Mockups

Sumit Kadam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Balsamiq

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Balsamiq is lagging a lot as compared to Figma but it's comparable with respect to MockFlow.

Also, Figma is a full stack solution in designing and hence it was an overkill of my role. Balsamiq is easier to use & know in the industry and hence that helped in decision making.




Do you think Balsamiq delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Balsamiq's feature set?

Yes

Did Balsamiq live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Balsamiq go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Balsamiq again?

Yes

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.