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Justin Jackson

Balsamiq Cloud - Fast, approachable, collaborative wireframing

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Balsamiq Cloud is the industry-leading solution for fast, approachable, collaborative wireframing.

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Justin Jackson
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Seven years ago, I was working as a Product Manager for a SaaS product. I needed a simple way to sketch out new features and screens. I wanted this for two reasons: first, to test with our customers, and second, to give our team a starting point to iterate from. It was then that I discovered the original Balsamiq. It was a downloadable desktop (Adobe Air?) app, and it changed the way I work. Fast forward to today, and the little company that @peldi founded has just released Balsamiq Cloud. I've been using it for the past month, and it is awesome. It's fast, collaborative, and has some big upgrades from the desktop version (vectors everywhere, bigger canvas). I'm a fan! Congrats to the Balsamiq team for this release! 🙌
Shaked Klein Orbach
@peldi @mijustin Congrats! How did you make it so fast? Which technologies did you guys use?
Giacomo “Peldi” Guilizzoni
Maker
@shakedko Hi! The frontend is in JS, using a custom framework we made, and SVG and React. Backend is in NodeJS (GraphQL), Redis and MySQL.
Giacomo “Peldi” Guilizzoni
Maker
Hi all. This was the culmination of two years of work, rewriting both our Flash-based editor in JS and taking all we learned from myBalsamiq to build a brand new, modern web app. Any questions, don’t be shy. 😄 I’ll try to reply to all of them.
Lyondhür Picciarelli
@peldi fantastic work!
Vincent Battaglia
@peldi Do you plan to have an embed? I would love to provide a Balsamiq integration in Ludus.
Giacomo “Peldi” Guilizzoni
Maker
@vinch we do plan for it! email me your thoughts at peldi@balsamiq.com and we’ll chat!
Vincent Battaglia
@peldi Email sent!
Ognjen Vukovic
@peldi I have to say that this product looks amazing! I will try it. Be sure to check out our tool, it will be very interesting to you. https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
Giacomo “Peldi” Guilizzoni
Maker
Hey while we’re here, I have a question for you! Did you use Balsamiq to wireframe YOUR product? Tell us your story! :)
Silvio Bompan
@peldi Ciao Giacomo, Balsamiq user since 2013 here: I've done a lot of client work with it (and love it), right now I'm wireframing a landing page for Remoteur, my little side project. Big ups for the launch! :)
Manish Malik
@peldi Used it for a lot many years and though frequency has reduced now (pen and paper and whiteboard take my time nowadays), I’ve used it virtually at every startup or employment since 2010 (I just searched my mail for a license purchase - it was 2010). Oh and btw, the happiest moment of using Balsamiq was when I discovered a way to get rid of that Comic Sans (was that the default?) font for presentation slides. My reporting manager had just taken a look at some mockups and had said "fine...don't you have something more serious looking?" 😉 (long stories) All the best for Balsamiq Cloud.
Chris Turner
@peldi I first started using it back in 2012. It has been a great tool for getting clients to buy into a design without getting bogged down debating colors and such. Congrats on the release of the cloud version.
Justin Jackson
Hunter

This is everything I loved about the original Balsamiq product, but with some big upgrades. Vectors everywhere, bigger canvas, and better team collaboration.

Pros:

Really fast and collaborative wireframing, with great export options.

Cons:

Can't think of any!

Frederik Bader

consequent focused on LowFi at a very high level of a user centric development process. One of my favourite tools since 8 years...

Pros:

fast, easy, focused

Cons:

native Desktop app not yet available (work in progess)

Jeff Ski Kinsey

For me, these guys own the wireframe space.

Pros:

Runs gr8 on my Samsung Chromebook. Been using Balsamiq since 2011 or so and it just works!

Cons:

Would have liked to see a "print" icon rather than doing Ctrl-P but otherwise, simply awesome.

Joshua Karp
I started using Balsamiq in 2008 and it's still my go-to for wireframes. This new cloud version looks great. Nice job @peldi.
Edward Vasquez
one of the best wireframe now in the cloud <3
Tejaswi R

Balsamiq is one of the most intuitive software I have every used. Absolutely little or no learning curve if you are not a designer.

Pros:

Wireframing for everybody. Super simple to use and powerful in feature set

Cons:

No resource on best practices/templates we can plug and play (learn from Canva?)

Manikandan

Highly recommended!

Pros:

Feels like a real paper prototype

Easy to use

Cons:

Don't add many features.

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