Hi all. It was three and a half years ago that I posted a "review my startup" message about Balsamiq Mockups to the old Business of Software forums[1], but it sure feels like a few lifetimes ago.<p>I have grown a lot, our company has grown, the Internet has grown. The bar is definitely higher now.<p>One thing that hasn't changed is my thirst for honest, qualified feedback from smart, technical people.<p>So, if you have a little time today or this weekend, it would be great if you could take a look at what we built and tells us where we could improve.<p>We put a lot of love into it, but we know there are some rough edges and can take the criticism.<p>I wrote a little announcement post too that gives a little more info.[2]<p>Thanks so much HN crowd! I'll be checking in here in the next few days...unless everything crashes of course... :)<p>Peldi for the Balsamiq team.<p>[1] <a href="http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.643216.22" rel="nofollow">http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.643216.2...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2011/11/10/mybalsamiq/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2011/11/10/mybalsamiq/</a>
My team has had the pleasure of using myBalsamiq during its pre-release and it truly is a joy. Highly, highly recommend.<p>Awesome features:<p>1) Being able to take our collaboration to the next level with comments, notifications, etc. directly associated with individual mockups and access controls.<p>2) Archive vs. Active is a useful model to keep mockups around after exiting that mockup portion of the development lifecycle.<p>3) Prototype view!!!<p>4) Versioning. Propose alternate version.<p>Potential improvements:<p>1) More generous asset constraints.<p>2) Tighter sync between desktop and myBalsamiq. Something in the spirit of an interface in the desktop to easily navigate myBalsamiq project and mockup hierarchies and take a mockup offline to edit. myBalsamiq + iCloud. Don't forget easy syncing of assets. (A lot of our users can't get over no keyboard shortcuts.)
3) Site-wide BMML templates? Cloning works, but seems to only be within the current project. Work around seems to be download BMML and upload into other project.
I have a department of 10 project managers who report to me. They all have balsamic licenses and use them regularly. It is out method of choice or communicating interface requirements to our development teams in India and has saves us many times. We now have a 5 full-time UX resources who do more Photoshop interface work, but we still get solid mileage out of your product. Thanks! I'll check this new web app out.