About Balsamiq Champions
Balsamiq Champions is a blog dedicated to the users and fans of Balsamiq. The idea came from a few different sources. The first was a blog post by Kevin Kelly in 2008 targeted at independent musicians...
View ArticleUsing Balsamiq For Information Architecture & Wireframing
Today's champion is Puya Turkiyan. He recently wrote an article on his blog called "Using Balsamiq For Information Architecture & Wireframing". He is an SEO Specialist in the Internet Marketing...
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Using Balsamiq Mockups in the Enterprise
Today's champion is Floyd Price. He is one of the founders of a company called Code Spaces. He wrote an article called "Using Balsamiq Mockups in the Enterprise" about how he was able to break...
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Apps for Good
Today's Champion is Satwant Kenth. Satwant is a Course Specialist for Apps for Good, an educational program in the United Kingdom. What is Apps for Good? Apps for Good is an acclaimed education...
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How GoodApril Used Balsamiq to Save Hundreds of Hours in Building its MVP
Our newest Champion is Mitch Fox. He is the co-founder of GoodApril, a tax planning software startup. Mitch emailed us after being inspired by reading about Balsamiq Champions to share his story of...
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Rev.com uses Mockups to help its translation services stand out from the crowd
This week's Champion is Mark Chen from Rev.com. Mark wrote us one of those emails that we absolutely love to get that started with this: "We love using Balsamiq at Rev.com and would like to be able to...
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Michael Bourque on using Mockups to tell stories and sell your ideas
I'm very excited to highlight one of our original Champions, Michael Bourque. Michael began contributing to our community forums in August 2008, just two months after Balsamiq Mockups was introduced....
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Jenni Merrifield
I'm happy to introduce our latest Champion, Jenni Merrifield. Jenni is another long-time user and regular contributor to our community forums. She frequently appears in the release notes on our product...
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Ubuntu uses myBalsamiq for community designed mobile apps
I recently came across a blog post by Jono Bacon of Ubuntu called "Community Driven Ubuntu Phone Core Apps". It describes the Ubuntu for phones project, which, in the spirit of Open Source, invites...
View ArticleApps for Good in the Media
Our friend Mark Littlewood just wrote a great article on his Business Leaders Network blog about his visit to the Apps for Good awards presentation evening. In the article, Mark envisions a future, 30...
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From product trainer to product owner: Craig J Willis's story
Our latest Champion is Craig J Willis. Craig is a long-time Mockups user who has used it in both enterprise and, now, startup environments. He wrote to us to tell us one of his Mockups success stories...
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JR Harrell on the state of design in 2013
JR Harrell is a Denver‐based UI/UX designer. He regularly uses Balsamiq Mockups in his design workflow. He contacted us by email and wrote: As a UI/UX designer, I have used Balsamiq as my wireframing...
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Yarone Goren on validating product ideas with Mockups
Yarone Goren (LinkedIn profile) is the founder and CEO of Iteration Group, a product firm that relies heavily on Balsamiq Mockups for its projects. Yarone told me that of the 10 or so employees "we...
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Glenn Murray on using Mockups for Copywriting
Our latest Champion, Glenn Murray, is not a prototypical Mockups user. He's a copywriter (although perhaps not a typical copywriter either). He recently wrote an article that opened my eyes both to the...
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Wayne Chen on Avoiding Common Mobile Product Mistakes
Our latest Champion is Wayne Chen. He wrote an article recently that caught my eye called "Top 10 Mobile Product Management Mistakes And How To Avoid Them (Part 1)". He introduces his article by saying...
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Jon Matthews on using Mockups to clarify your ideas
Our latest Champion, Jon Matthews, recently tweeted about how well Balsamiq Mockups works for drawing decision trees, like the one below. He has used it for a long time to help him design his products...
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Dan Olsen on becoming a Lean Product Ninja
Dan Olsen has traveled the country teaching people how to become "Product Ninjas" by introducing Lean product development processes into their organizations. He also consults with startups on how to...
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Sean Rosensteel
Our latest champion is Sean Rosensteel. He is the co-founder of Bravo, a web-based tool for recording customer videos for marketing campaigns. Sean reached out to us via email, writing, "Wondering if...
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Nick Pettit on Learning for Life
Nick Pettit loves learning. Learning as a way to survive in an ever-changing business landscape; Learning as means of breaking into a new field; Learning as a tool for personal improvement. He recently...
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Fred Schebesta on the Risks and Rewards of Innovation
The theme of my interview with our latest Champion, Fred Schebesta, was innovation. Bold and innovative products have been the keys to success for his creative team, which is constantly challenging...
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