One of the major aspects of the Product Management is to create wire-frames or mock-ups for introduction of new features or enhancement to existing feature set. A mock-up, in simple terms, is a outline of how a particular screen or feature on the product (desktop application, mobile application or website) might look. A mock-up contains all the buttons, menus, text boxes and other functionality that the final product will have.
Product Managers have to create mock-ups or come up with first cut design interact and then go through number of iterations of refining it based upon the feedback of various stakeholders.
In this whole process Product Managers often waste lot of their time on the work flow or UI designing. Tools for creating these mock-ups may differ from person to person. While some use PowerPoint or other presentation software, few others are hooked to Microsoft Visio or Adobe Photoshop. Use of all these tools require some sort of technical knowledge and at times those coming from non technical background may find it difficult to use such software.
Balsamiq Mockups is an AIR app from Balsamiq Studios that help you create Mock-ups in a jiffy. Balsamiq Mouckups is easy to use and require no formal training. It has built in ready to use shapes, buttons and other web elements like text boxes, menu bar, links etc.
Drag and drop and easy to use interface makes it easy to start sketching or tweaking the mock-ups immediately. Once you are done with the mock-up, it can be saved as PNG, PDF or XML.
Creating high class perfect UIs meeting the high standards of usability is just a matter of few minutes with ‘Balsamiqs mockups’. You can take a demo of same and decide for yourself.
