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What’s New: Our Biggest Product Update This Year 👉 https://lnkd.in/daQiJwwq

We love celebrating Balsamiq anniversaries, and today brings us quite a few! 16 years of Balsamiq and counting—thanks for sticking around. (And yes, that just may be a sneak peek of some new branding...)

After sketching those initial low-fidelity wireframes for your project, the next step is making them team-ready. How do you bridge that gap? In this video, Billy Carlson, educator and author, will show you the way. You’ll learn the tips and tricks that pros use to communicate their product ideas, and useful Balsamiq Cloud shortcuts to significantly shorten your design cycle. We call that a double win! https://lnkd.in/dR34sPbv

Learn how to wireframe your ideas at the speed of thought with our free course! In this video, Billy Carlson quickly designs a few screens of a food ordering app, with tips applicable to any industry: https://lnkd.in/eqSR9fb8

Starting a new project means finding the most optimal route from idea to execution, right? Discover your best path with 3 Balsamiq Cloud tricks from UX educator Billy Carlson: https://lnkd.in/d_B5UMBi He covers how to: 👉 Drag & drop controls from our UI library 👉 Use Quick Add 👉 Use Quick Draw

Get 'em while they're hot! 😎  A fresh batch of our favorite UX and UI links published in the last month: 1. Embracing the Absurd in Your Design Practices (https://lnkd.in/gWnyxqRZ) by Karina Chow 2. Enabling Magicians, Not Magic ✨ (https://lnkd.in/ghc8jttW) by Ellen Chisa 3. The Blurring Lines Between UX and Digital Marketing (https://lnkd.in/grPRTCwg) by Bethany J. 4. Indicators, Validations, and Notifications: Pick the Correct Communication Option (https://lnkd.in/ePeRCNgS) by Kim Salazar 5. When (And Why) Noise Creates Churn (https://lnkd.in/gVM5rN42) by Peter Ramsey Leave a comment with your favorite article so far this month and we'll add it to our reading list! #uxinspiration #uxtips #ux #uidesign

Forget about aimless meetings and circular discussions. A solid design brief brings focus, alignment, and clarity—right from the start of your project. And after seeing hundreds (maybe thousands) of these, we’ve found that the best briefs are clear and easy to read. Here’s the checklist: - A clear project description - Project background and business context - Your main objective – the 'why' - Essential features your project must have - Design considerations - Success metrics We put together a quick video with UX educator and author, Billy Carlson, to walk you through it: https://lnkd.in/dRyASzJi

Looking back at Balsamiq’s 2023 👉 https://lnkd.in/d_KRdurm

Introducing our brand new, FREE course: "Rapid Wireframing with Balsamiq"! With this course, you’ll learn how to: - Clearly define your app’s scope and audience - Design interfaces quickly and efficiently - Enhance your wireframes with a professional polish - Link them together to create an interactive, clickable prototype - Adapt your designs seamlessly for mobile use Let’s get started! https://lnkd.in/dH4TsMDP

Did you know that every month we hand-pick 5 great UX and UI articles and share them on our blog? Here are our picks from last month: 1. Deceptive Patterns in UX: How to Recognize and Avoid Them (https://lnkd.in/gHrTBHH6) by Maria Rosala 2. Designing Outside the Lines: Radical Creativity in Product Design (https://lnkd.in/guCtSxK6) by Suchithra Sathiyamurthy 3. The Creative Playground (https://lnkd.in/gUkryUX9) by Ralph Ammer 4. Improve Validation Errors with Adaptive Messages (98% Don’t) (https://lnkd.in/dADDmTNU) by Baymard Institute 5. Navigation Patterns in Mobile Applications. How to Make the Right Choice? (https://lnkd.in/eaBRRmGB) by Ksenia Toloknova If you like these, check out our our Wireframing Academy (https://lnkd.in/gurQGDuE) where you can find 6 years worth of quality reads to stay current and level-up your knowledge. #uxinspiration #uxtips #ux #uidesign