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Looking back at Balsamiq’s 2023
A detailed recap of what we did in 2023 and a peek into our plans for 2024.
By Arielle
UX/UI Links of December 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from December 2023, including articles about mobile navigation, creativity, deceptive patterns, and more.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of November 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from November 2023, including articles about accessibility, content formatting, bridging design and engineering, and more.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of October 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from October 2023, including articles about in-page links, button labels, persuasive design, and more.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of September 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from September 2023, including articles about drag-and-drop, creativity, intentional UX, and more.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of August 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from August 2023, including articles about replacing advanced search, growth design, tree testing, and more.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of July 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from July 2023, including articles about age-inclusive products, progress indicators, how to use your intuition, and more.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of June 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from June 2023, including articles about facilitating ideation meetings, IA for navigation, skeleton screens, and more.
By Leon
Dev Update for Summer 2023
Summer brings a redesigned Balsamiq Wireframes Editor and a couple nice new features! Join Brendan as he walks you through all of it.
By Brendan
UX/UI Links of May 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from May 2023, including articles about designing for attention, DesignOps and roadmaps, user research, and more.
By Leon
Wireframing for Everyone, the Book, Is Here!
We wrote a book to help everyone participate in the design process! It’s about better ways to make wireframes and use them with your team. Order your copy now.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of April 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from April 2023, including articles about default options, information architecture, creativity, and more.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of March 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from March 2023, including articles about design patterns, iOS navigation, disabled states, and more.
By Leon
Looking back at Balsamiq’s 2022
We've changed a lot in the last year! Here's our traditional recap of what we did in 2022 and our plans for 2023.
By Arielle
UX/UI Links of February 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from February 2023, including articles about storytelling, asking for feedback, onboarding help, and more.
By Leon
UX/UI Links of January 2023
Our favorite UX and UI links from January 2023, including articles about sign-up patterns, onboarding best practices, avoiding groupthink, and more.
By Leon
The future of Balsamiq for Desktop
The future of Balsamiq is evolving! We're making some changes to our products, starting with the future of Balsamiq for Desktop.
By Arielle
Announcing a New Course for the Wireframing Academy!
We're happy to announce that we added a new course about how to redesign a website from start to finish: 7 video lessons packed with tips from a real case study!
By Billy
Learning to Wireframe: a Quick Guide
If you are looking forward to learning how to visualize your ideas and communicate them more effectively, here are a ton of resources to help you out.
By Billy
UX/UI Links of December 2022
Our favorite UX and UI links from December 2022, including articles about time-zone selectors, hierarchy strips, how to draw ideas, and more.
By Leon
Balsamiq Sponsorships Update for January 2023
We’re back with more of our upcoming sponsored events including Design Matters Mexico, Interaction 23, Tech Intersections and more!
By Amanda
Welcome Jonathan Race, Business Manager, and Arielle Kimbarovsky, Head of Marketing
The Balsamiq team is growing! Join us in welcoming two new team members, JR and Arielle, in new roles.
By Arielle
Balsamiq Sponsorships Update for December 2022
We’re back with more of our upcoming sponsored events including You Got This Broadcasting Service, Business of Software, Rose Hack and more!
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of November 2022
Our favorite UX and UI links from November 2022, including articles about contextual inquiry, transactional notifications, mobile navigation, and more.
By Leon
CUSB Sponsorship Update: Teams Results 2022
Great news from the ultimate frisbee teams we sponsor: the men’s team placed fifth at Worlds, and the women’s team won their third gold European medal.
By Laura
Balsamiq Sponsorships Update for November 2022
We’re back with more of our upcoming sponsored events including Design in Product, Smashing Meets Design Systems, Make a Mark Virtual and more!
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of October 2022
Our favorite UX and UI links from October 2022, including articles about time inputs, designing for disabilities, how not to use surveys, and more.
By Leon
A first glimpse at Wireframing, the book!
It’s preview time! Take a look at some of the images we’ll be using in our book about wireframing. Can you guess what their purpose is? Read on to find the answer!
By Leon
Dev Update for October 2022
Font Awesome 6, Project Properties, and when to remove a feature. All that in this month's Dev Update Blogpost
By Brendan
Three new articles on Wireframing Academy
We recently added 3 articles about Product Managers and wireframes, wireframing tips for design agencies, and common mistakes on websites and how to fix them.
By Francesca
UX/UI Links of September 2022
Our favorite UX and UI links from September 2022, including articles about mobile overlays, notifications, inline validation, and more.
By Leon
Balsamiq Sponsorships Update for October 2022
We’re back with more of our upcoming sponsored events including Unicorn Ambition Conference, Business of Software, Canvas Conference, and more!
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of August 2022
Our favorite UX and UI links from August 2022, including articles about navigation models, cross-team feedback, design debt, and more.
By Leon
Balsamiq Sponsorships Update for September 2022
We’re back with more of our upcoming sponsored events including Lesbians Who Tech & Allies Summit, Business of Software Online, Interact London, and more!
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of July 2022
Our favorite UX and UI links from July 2022, including articles about taxonomy, grids, resolving conflicts between designers and developers, and more.
By Leon
Mandatory time off: When taking holiday is part of the job
"Balsamiq, a software firm with employees in Italy, France, Germany and the US, also switched to mandatory time off when managers realised workers, especially in the US, weren’t taking enough time off, despite the unlimited vacation policy."
By Peldi
Balsamiq Sponsorships Update for August 2022
We’re back with more of our sponsored events including Design Matters, SmashingConf Meets, Paris Web, and more!
By Amanda
Balsamiq Sponsorships Update for July 2022
We’re back with more of our sponsored events including DesignOps Summit, REFACTR.TECH, SmashingConf Freiburg, and more!
By Amanda
UX/UI Links of June 2022
Our favorite UX and UI links from June 2022, including articles about checkout pages, advanced UX, narrative design, and more.
By Leon
Dev Update for July 2022
Find and Replace, Exporting, Text, and Icons - you will want to be sitting down for this because it's a big one.
By Brendan
How Balsamiq does User Research
Check out this whole new section of our website, on how to do User Research with a small team.
By Peldi
Learning Resources from UX Designer Donna Spencer
A summary of 2 video courses and one article that Donna Spencer created for our Wireframing Academy: Designing navigation, Designing page Layout, Managing errors.
By Francesca