Balsamiq Erfahrungen

Basalmiq for wireframes creation

Kommentare: I used Basalmiq to create wireframes, mock-ups and UI prototypes. It offers a simplified, low-fidelity sketching style, which allows me to quickly capture and communicate my design ideas.

Vorteile:

Balsamiq's focus on low-fidelity wireframes allows for rapid iteration and feedback gathering. It encourages a collaborative and agile design process, enabling teams to iterate on ideas and make quick adjustments before moving on to high-fidelity designs.

Nachteile:

However, it should be noted that Balsamiq's sketchy, low-fidelity style, which I personally dislike for its simplicity, can also be seen as a limitation for those who need more polished and faithful designs.effectively to your needs.

Prototyping for all

Kommentare: I love it. It's quick, simple, and expressive, the extensive primitives are very helpful, and the more effort you put in the better it gets. It's also incredibly useful to be able to share a prototype as a website and get comments.

Vorteile:

1. Generating interactive prototypes incredibly quickly, thanks to a very small learning curve and a reasonably intuitive interface. 2. With a little extra effort, generating high-fidelity prototypes that pretty much match anything other (much) more expensive and complex packages can do. 3. Modifying prototypes on the fly in brainstorming meetings. 4. Openly sharing focused prototypes with others in a few clicks. 5. Dynamically incorporating Balsamiq slides into Miro boards.

Nachteile:

As the creator, when a prototype gets moderately complex, it's easy to get a bit lost as there is no overall graph of the site you have created. You can add a site map as a slide, but it just lists the pages with no way to see the link structure.

Easy Wireframe Utility

Kommentare: I would say ease of use. It's pretty quick to pick up without much ado.

Vorteile:

The ease of use and simplistic approach to creating prototypes with very low-fidelity is cool for me.

Nachteile:

Sure there is a handful of room for improvement but for the purposes I use it for in combination with other tools, I think there's not much to not like about it.

Simple and easy tool for creating low-fidelity wireframes and prototypes

Kommentare: Overall, I love the simplicity and intuitiveness of this tool. If you are looking for a product to quickly put together a wireframe or sketch (based on rough ideas) for feedbacks or approvals, then this can be a great option for you.

Vorteile:

I have used Balsamiq for more than 3+ years to create lo-fi wireframes for mobile and web applications. What I love the most about Balsamiq is that it follows UI/UX industry standards, so you can easily use their pre-built templates or icon library without making much changes. It helps you create detailed wireframes in a very short interval of time. I like the ability to export the wireframe designs in a .pdf or .png format. If you are using Balsamiq cloud app on your browser, then you can collaborate with other team members on the same wireframe in real time. This is a very useful feature, especially in those projects, where there are multiple design team members involved. It helps you in incorporating their feedback and comments without much back-and-forth.

Nachteile:

What I disliked about Balsamiq is that the exported .pdf file doesn't have very good resolution. Also, if you need a tool for hi-fi designs or interactive prototyping, then this may not be the best option. There are better products/tools available in the market.

Balsamiq review

Kommentare: I like Balsamiq because it lets me wireframe quickly and easily, has an easy-to-use design, and lets me work with other people. Some people might think that its simplicity makes it hard to use for more complex designs, but it's still a popular choice for fast prototyping and ideation in many design projects.

Vorteile:

Balsamiq's best features are its quick prototyping with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface, its ability to help people work together with real-time edits, and its low cost. Users of all skill levels can quickly learn how to use it because it has wireframes that look like sketches, a lot of different uses, and seamless interaction. Respondent customer service makes the experience better for users.

Nachteile:

Some users find that Balsamiq's approach to high-detail design work is limited by the fact that it is meant to be easy and low-fidelity. Its sketch-like look might be a problem for projects that need more polished images, but it works well for early-stage prototyping. Also, some complicated projects might not have access to the more advanced design features that come with other tools.

Reliable - a must tool for software designers and business analysts

Kommentare: We used this product for 2 years to design and create a project from scratch. We used the notes features to take real time infos from the sessions with the client. Permit nice output designs and collaborative work ( we worked like 8 people to the same project, remotely).

Vorteile:

Nice design options, nice graphic boards to represent the outputs. A lot of features to offer and a stable piece of software.

Nachteile:

Quite low speed some time, quite difficult to retrieve a project using browser link, functional but low speed.

Simple, No non-sense wireframing tool

Kommentare: Overall, when I started using it at my first job, it gave a great medium for me to express my ideas on design

Vorteile:

I loved the simplicity and drag-and-drop features for even a noob to get started and create phone and web app layouts. No skills needed!

Nachteile:

It is not as sophisticated as other tools these days, but that's what you get for this price.

Easy but to expensive for the features

Kommentare: Easy to start using, but when we looked at other solutions we move away from it. It's a bit dated nowadays

Vorteile:

Easy to use and fast to do things, easy to manage different projects in separate files

Nachteile:

Expensive compared to competitors. Very crude components. A bit of a hassle to do prototypes.

Balsamiq makes quick mockups easy

Kommentare: Very positive. The company is great, the tool is very helpful

Vorteile:

I'm not a "visual" thinker, but Balsamiq makes it easy to put ideas into a visual format to share with various teams.

Nachteile:

The initial learning curve was a little steep for someone like me without a design background. But even so, it is much easier than alternatives! Much simpler. The fact that the desktop and cloud versions are completely separate isn't ideal.

Good for sketching out rough wireframes quickly

Vorteile:

Balsamiq is a good tool to quickly whip out a layout to get a general idea of what you're going to build. It is very easy to use, and provides common components required for sketching a website. It has great presentation mode to quickly demonstrate your ideas to clients or your team, and it emphasizes feature-first approach as it can be used to demonstrate layout and features before the nitty gritty graphic details.

Nachteile:

Although Balsamiq is great, it lacks a lot of features. It has very little collaboration options to work together with your team. Resizing elements in Balsamiq is clunky, and it does not have a snappy drag and drop with grids which a lot of other wireframing tools provide. It also does not have any options for extending the mockups with colors, which might be required in many cases.

Amazing application! Really helpful for UI/UX Designing

Kommentare: I am happy with Balsamiq. I use it quite frequently in my day to day job life. It's quite useful in UI Design.

Vorteile:

The ease of use of this application.The drag and drop feature is highly appreciated in my team.

Nachteile:

No issues faced as such. The application serves its purpose very well.

Simple and Easy

Vorteile:

Balsamiq is SO easy to pick up and use. It has everything you could possibly need in a prototyping software to create a simple visual in mere minutes

Nachteile:

Balsamiq Cloud used to have a free version. I don't use it enough to justify $9/month, which I feel is too much for casual users. Though it's definitely worth that and more.

Very ideal for wireframe creation in software development teams

Kommentare: I still recommend this tool for the team who likes a tool for managing wireframes and prototypes. It gives the vital requirement for a mockup.

Vorteile:

1. Simple and classic look - Balsamiq gives an old-school feels to its components which I really like. It is simple and easy to blend to the documents/presentation you can add it into. 2. Drag and drop functionality - This tool is very easy to understand and manage. Training for this tool will not take long 3. Many components to choose from - Buttons, dropdowns, text fields, and more. From simple to up to date components, you can find them here. 4. Easy to manage tool 5. Great for presentation too 6. Output is comprehensive for the whole team of any role - Because it is simple and classic, all team members can appreciate it too: developer/QA/designer

Nachteile:

1. I think that the fact that it is too plain, it can limit the user from expressing what he/she likes the prototype to become. 2. The interactions/simulations with the components in Balsamiq is too limited 3. Collaboration for instant feedback is a limitation here

Balsamiq Mockups, the most incredible tool for your UI/UX designs

Kommentare: I just love using Balsamiq! It makes it really easy and fast to build your mockups. I have use it for both desktop and mobile apps with very good results. Clients usually love its friendly appearance. Since the project can be exported as an interactive PDF (if you programmed any interactions), you can show your clients a simulation of the UX and they just love that. Anyone can program this interactions using the software, you do not require any previous experience, it is just a matter of connecting slides, similar to programing a Power Point presentation. 100% recommended.

Vorteile:

I absolutely adore this tool and have done it for more than five years now. I discover it when I was working as an intern at Intel, and I just fell in love with it. Have use it ever since for a lot of projects that involve interface and user experience design. It is the most intuitive tool, extremely simple but also extremely efficient. It takes almost no time to understand how to use it, it is as simple as dragging and dropping elements from a wide menu to your canvas and start arranging them the way you want your interface to look like. It has a lot of elements to build your design and you can "program" them so that you can simulate user interactions. It makes it so easy to build your mockups and on top of that it is extremely fun to use. If you don´t believe me, try it, you can download a free 30 days trail version. It is available both as a desktop app and online, which is a great option if you are working with a team and multiple people need to access to the files. You can convert it to a PDF version once you are done with the project, which makes it really easy to show it to your customers, peers, clients, etc.

Nachteile:

I know is going to sound like a lie, but I honestly don´t have any complains about this software. If I had to name one, I guess it would be the price, but is not really that expensive and it is totally worth it.

Balsamiq review

Vorteile:

I am using Balsamiq tool in order to illustrate and representing every single page of my web applications. I am sketching several web components (e.g., buttons, inputs, labels, graphs, links, etc.) for each available page. I am describing events for each action (e.g., page navigation).

Nachteile:

Despite Balsamiq interesting functionalities, its user interface could be improved by understanding other sketching tools.

Balsamiq speeds up your wireframing work

Vorteile:

The main pro of Balsamiq is that is very simple to use. The set of pre made object is one of the main core features, with those components you can quickly create a wireframe without all the overhead of creating the basic components

Nachteile:

The main cons consists in the fact that Balsamiq is build with the old flash technology. Another cons is that at the moment there are no way to automatically sync the wireframe with online prototyping tool like Marvel of Invision

I still love it after 9 years

Kommentare: I've been extremely pleased with the overall experience. I really like the look of making a wireframe look like a sketch. It gives it a very clean look so you can focus on the functionality.

Vorteile:

I found it extremely easy to use. It took me very little time to understand the concept and then I was up and running. As I continued to use it I picked up shortcuts and advanced features. It really plays a big role in communicating what needs to be built. I also really like exporting a project into a PDF file so it can be used as a demo with options linking to various pages.

Nachteile:

I haven't really found much that I did not like. There have been times when I would like to have some more elements to include in my wireframes. I have seen some that were available for purchase which is nice.

The perfect mockup tool for non-designers

Vorteile:

When I'm collaborating with designers and/or engineers on a new website or mobile app experience, Balsamiq is my go-to resource for creating mockups. First, it strikes a very good balance between features and complexity; it's quite easy to find, manipulate, and edit the visual elements you need, even though the range of elements is quite large and the "canvas" is so customizable. Second, the "hand-drawn" style of the elements is perfect for early-stage mockups, because it allows you to create pretty good approximations of the look-and-feel of a user experience without suggesting (or being responsible for/beholden to) pixel-perfect mockups.

Nachteile:

I sometimes wish the Balsamiq team was more aggressive about releasing new visual elements in the tool to reflect new design styles being produced out in the wild, but usually I can either use a similar element or mush other elements together to create the same effect. And at the end of the day, this isn't a deal-killer--after all, Balsamiq allows you to create approximations and capture the intent of your design, and if there were an endless supply of element options, you might get too caught up in trying to be precise (which hamstrings the designers).

Mockups for Everyone

Kommentare: Balsamiq has allowed myself and others at our company to quickly put together mockups to thoroughly explain and show new features or changes we would like to make on our site. They are easy to share and easy for others to understand.

Vorteile:

Balsamiq is one of the most intuitively easy tools I've used in a long time. I had to teach myself how to use Balsamiq and was able to quickly learn the basics on my own and get a page mockup ready in very little time. If you take the time to dive deeper, there are some very complex features that can really improve your mockups as well.

Nachteile:

The only real complaint I have about Balsamiq is that the search feature doesn't work very well. It seems as though a lot of the assets available to you are not tagged correctly which can make searching almost ineffective. It is usually easier to dig through the category menus when looking for a specific asset.

Balsamiq lives up to its reputation as an easy rapid prototyping tool

Vorteile:

Balsamiq is designed at creating rapid, low-fidelity static mockups. It does that very well, and is so easy to use. If you use Balsamiq Cloud, it's also easy to share and collaborate on mockups. The Cloud offering has a nice way to publish the mockups to use as a presentation for business customers. The symbol capability is great, allowing you to re-use components of a mockup across a project and even override the defaults from a symbol. I've seen other tools that fall down at this aspect.

Nachteile:

Balsamiq is not intended to create high-fidelity mockups or animation, so it is not comparable to some mockup tools that have those features (Framer, Adobe XD). However, I think the price reflects that. Balsamiq is very affordable for some back-of-the-napkin type mockups that you can throw together quickly.

My first rapid wireframing experience turned a success thanks to Balsamiq

Kommentare: One of the best tools I've discovered recently. Cheap and easy to use. A must have for quick back and forth on your UX plans.

Vorteile:

Great tutorial to get you started, a ton of elements to use out of the box to create wireframes quickly and painlessly. Balsamiq is perfect for someone with no wireframing experience. The process of transferring your vision to a visual design is a breeze for a person with no experience in graphic design so your product owners and stakeholders could use it too. I love the rough-edged design of the app, and the free-handed look your initial designs get but you can make things more presentable if needed. I am using a Google Drive addition for only $5 a month and couldn't be happier with the value for the money. Only the editors need a license. Any number of people can view your designs that you can share like regular Google docs, slides, or sheets.

Nachteile:

There are several different fields you can use to comment and write descriptions, so it can be confusing as to where to put the most important information about the design so that your team can always see it.

Good little tool to refine rough ideas for screen designs

Kommentare: We use this tool to help product managers and UX designers with getting rough wireframes at the start of a project to facilitate brainstorming.

Vorteile:

Balsamiq strikes a good balance between simplicity and features. It manages to have enough components to prototype your ideas quickly without getting too bogged down by endless customizability. The end result is getting your project off the ground faster, which is definitely worth it.

Nachteile:

Honestly not a lot, as long as you understand the context in which this software should be used. It isn't supposed to be a detailed UI mockup tool, there are other much more elaborate software packages for that. This is something that should be used by a product manager or UX person very early to set up quick wireframes.

Great for online tutorial creators, outdated for design and prototyping

Kommentare: I've seen many Udemy courses using this as a teaching platform, and for that application it is great. For modern designers, you should look someplace else for prototyping and outlining your next idea

Vorteile:

- Great for explanation videos or tutorials - Slide-show style format makes it easy to present complex topics in a simple way - Lots of templates for mobile / web interfaces to create prototypes

Nachteile:

- Modern design is moving towards working in apps like Sketch, where you can outline, design, prototype, and even generate CSS in a single place. Balsamiq used to be designers' go-to tool, but there are far better options available now. - You can outline your ideas here, but you're just going to have to recreate them in another app anyway

A no-frills mock-up platform

Kommentare: It served its purpose nicely, and was a big help for our small business to manage software development. It may not be the most comprehensive, but it will certainly get the job done.

Vorteile:

I used this software in my previous job to design new service features for our content management products. Balsamiq was useful in being able to very quickly sketch out and edit mock-ups and then share them with our development team. I liked the visual style they employed (made to look like hand-drawn sketches), and the palette of components, including smart phone screens, which were very nice when doing mobile compatibility layouts.

Nachteile:

The software could be slow at times, and it lacked certain design I would have otherwise expected to find in a standard mock-up program. I would suggest looking at the hosted version instead of downloading.

Easy to use, quick to learn, wire-framing software

Kommentare: facilitates better communication, saves time and leads to overall lift in product design level

Vorteile:

- Allows me to build wireframes for our web-based software product without wasting the time of our lead designer. - Allows me to better explain concepts to our developers, especially concepts which would be hard to explain just through words - interactions between elements, actions on clicking of buttons, etc. - The learning curve for this software is not very high - anyone with basic powerpoint skills can get started quickly.

Nachteile:

- There are limited set of charting elements available on the tool - One cannot rotate / tilt elements