Balsamiq Mockups

Why Balsamiq Mockups for wireframing?

Using Mockups feels like drawing, but because it’s digital, you can tweak and rearrange easily. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting.

Product managers, designers, developers, and even clients can now work together in the same tool to quickly iterate over wireframes, before writing code. Read our Manifesto!

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Features

Focus on Content and Functionality

Low-Fi Sketch Wireframes
Sketchy, low-fidelity wireframes let you focus design conversations on functionality

UI Components & Icons
75 built-in user interface components and 187 icons, plus a whole lot of community-generated components.

Click-Through Prototypes
Linking lets you generate click-through prototypes for demos & usability testing

Export to PNG or PDF
Share or present mockups with embedded links using PDF export, or use a 3rd party tool to export to code.

Never Waste a Minute

Quick Add for Speed
Lets you build wireframes using your keyboard

Drag and Drop for Simplicity
Interfaces with drag and drop components–anyone can use it

Re-usable Symbol Libraries
Create templates, masters, and re-usable component libraries

Full Keyboard Support
CTRL+C, V, X, Z all you want!

Import and Export
Seamless integration with all versions of Mockups, for when you’re back online

Works Offline
Work on the plane or in a coffeeshop without an Internet connection

Mac, Windows, and Linux
Fully cross-platform

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Designed for Collaboration#

Mockups is designed to help you and your team or clients iterate on wireframes as early in the process as possible, when it’s cheapest to do so. Here are some of the features that support this goal:

our web app myBalsamiq offers lots and lots of ways to interact within your team and with external clients.
extreme speed: you can create and tweak designs in real time during a design discussion meeting, whether you’re all in the same room or sharing your screen in an online meeting.
a look no-one is afraid to criticize: wireframes created with Mockups are intentionally rough and low-fidelity, with sketchy UI elements and a hand-drawn font. The idea is to encourage as much feedback as possible…no-one will think you’ll be offended by their input, they’ll know immediately that you just ‘threw it together’ quickly.
multiple ways to share and get feedback on your designs:
- Mockups exports to common PNG images which can be emailed as attachments, easily embedded in a website or saved in a shared folder.
- Mockups also exports to the clipboard, so that you can simply paste the snapshots to your Word or Powerpoint requirement documents and feature specifications.
- If you are using a plugin version of Mockups, you will be able to embed your Mockups in your wiki pages or bug reports, with access control, versioning and all the great Web Office features you’ve come to love.
- You can achieve near-real-time collaboration by coupling Mockups for Desktop with a “file sharing in the cloud” service like DropBox (learn more).
- If your colleagues haven’t bought Mockups, they’ll still be able to import your XML code in the free online demo version or open your BMML files in Mockups for Desktop, even after the trial expires. Then they’ll be able to tweak it, export it back and email it back to you.

There’s more about this in our manifesto, check it out!

See what you can build with Balsamiq Mockups#

Want to see more? Check out these Balsamiq Sightings we’ve bookmarked, and the user contributed mockups at Mockups To Go.

Praise for Balsamiq Mockups#

Below are some customer quotes about Mockups. There are hundreds more. You can read some praise on our forum or get a feel for the ‘Balsamiq Love’ on Twitter and Pinboard. Also check out the unfiltered list of all the mentions of Balsamiq on the Internet that we know of on this Pinboard list or search for Balsamiq on Twitter.

“We have been looking at rapid conceptual prototyping tools for a while, and I think that you have really managed to hit a sweet spot with your approach. Very impressive.”
— Andrew Rabin, CTO, CECity.com, Inc.

“Mockups takes the product design process from hours to minutes… I just mocked up a new interface in about four minutes using the AIR version. So amazing!”
— Michael Fitzpatrick, CEO & Co-Founder, ConnectSolutions

“Mockups is bitchin’. Pure and simple. It’s rare to find a tool that both devs and non-devs enjoy using, and use productively together. Huge fan!”
—Jay Simons, VP of Marketing, Atlassian

“My absolute, hands-down over-the-top new favorite mockup tool is www.balsamiq.com. I have a man-crush on whoever built it. So freaking good”
— Jeremy Toeman, Head of Marketing for Bug Labs

Author Bob Walsh interviewed 9 Balsamiq users who tell their success stories using Mockups.

Download the free eBook here.

Getting Support

If you have any questions, try the F.A.Q.s, the Mockups Documentation, or the community-driven forums on Get Satisfaction. You can always feel free to shoot us an email and we’ll get back to you within a few hours.

Learning Mockups

If you’re getting started with Mockups, or want to learn from examples, you may be interested in downloading our sample wireframes, finding mockup submissions to Mockups To Go, checking out our community of resources, or our tutorials.

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It’s free to download the trial.
Use it risk-free with full functionality for 7 days.

Buy Mockups for Desktop

Single user licenses are $79. Multi-person volume packs available.
Mockups for Desktop comes with free updates forever & forums-only support. Licenses are tied to humans, not a particular machine.

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