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Balsamiq Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.6 out of 10
Score
7.6 out of 10

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Business Problems Solved

Balsamiq has proven to be a valuable tool for various departments and teams within organizations. Users have found that Balsamiq is particularly useful for creating wireframes and low fidelity prototypes in the early stages of the design process. This helps teams and clients focus on user flows and on-page content, allowing for quick iterations based on user feedback. Balsamiq has also been utilized by product management departments as an alternative to more complex design software like Photoshop or Illustrator, enabling the quick mocking up of layouts and workflows. Additionally, Balsamiq has been used by software development teams to visualize new feature enhancements and refine requirements based on customer feedback. Multiple departments across organizations have found value in Balsamiq's ability to set up mockups quickly, refine requirements, and gain approval for project planning. The software has also helped standardize the design process and improve communication between marketing and design channels. Overall, users appreciate Balsamiq for its ability to create low fidelity wireframes early in the design process, allowing for a focus on layout before getting distracted by colors and other design elements.

Reviews

31 Reviews

Easy Peasy Balsamiq

Rating: 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Balsamiq to create mockups to support my user stories in the development of functionality for a web app. It allows me to quickly assemble a visual which explains to developers and designers the vision I have for something new that we will build. It is widely used by product managers/product owners in my organization.

Pros

  • Quick creation of mockups help start the conversation about a new piece of functionality
  • Their library of icons is extensive enough to produce most screens without having to create anything from scratch yourself
  • The ability to insert screenshots into your Assets library and start there with a mockup is a nice feature

Cons

  • Using an Assets library is difficult across projects if you don't set up each one to reference a single instance of the library. Set up is important to allow for visibility across projects
  • If you have a locked-down pc due to organization limits (no admin rights), you might have difficulty with the Adobe Air upgrades that are frequently needed - having to keep getting an admin to help with each upgrade is a pain

Likelihood to Recommend

Balsamiq is great for the non-designer crowd who is interested in creating quick mockups to start a discussion. It is dead-easy to pull something together that can be used for user-testing/validation.

It is not going to be used for a truly designed screen - its intention is not for a final design to hand over to a developer. True UI design does not happen in Balsamiq.

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Balsamiq
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