Balsamiq Mockups是一种软件工程中快速原型的建立软件,可以做为与用户交互的一个界面草图,一但客户认可可以做为美工开发HTML的原型使用。
曾经使用过网页版的软件,体验了它手写风格的插件,做出了漂亮的站点原型,可惜无法保存,只有拿快照保存成图片。
Balsamiq Mockups 是美国加利福利亚的Balsamiq工作室(2008年3月创建)推出的原型图绘制软件。于2008年6月发行了第一个版本。它的使命是帮助人们更好、更容易的设计软件产品。下面是Balsamiq官方的说明:
Founded in March 2008, Balsamiq Studios aims to make the world a better place by helping people create software that is easier to use. Balsamiq is a fast-growing but still-very-personable software company. We like to compete on usability and customer service. Our first product is Balsamiq Mockups. Launched in June 2008, Mockups helps software designers and developers build great software by letting them easily sketch out their ideas, then quickly collaborate and iterate over them. Balsamiq Mockups has netted over $2,000,000 in sales in first 18 months of business and is gathering rave reviews.