Balsamiq

As a player in the user experience, information architecture, programming and design field, we are proud to support those individuals who are helping others rid the world of bad software.

We support the resources below for the simple reason that we want them to continue to be successful, for the benefit of our whole community.

Our main goal as a company is to help rid the world of bad software, one user interface screen at a time. We are thrilled and honored to donate a version of Mockups integrated with UX.StackExchange.com. It’s free for you to use, and in case you’re wondering, it’s free for StackExchange to host.

http://ux.stackexchange.com/

Little Big Details is one of our favorite user interface galleries for finding inspiration. Floris Decker keeps an eye open for the elements of user interface design that make user experiences enjoyable, useful, and usable. We’re frequent visitors and want LBD to stick around to keep us looking for the little things that make software awesome.

http://littlebigdetails.com/

StartupBus is an invitation-only community of builders passionate about startups. The annual competition in 2012 is a hackathon on 10 buses traveling 60 miles an hour towards Austin in time for SxSW. We’re proud to be a part of this epic Journey.

http://startupbus.com/

The Big Design Conference is three intense days of learning within the scope of Strategy, User Experience, and Code Development. Experts from across the country gather to present theories, research, experiences, and best practices to students, professionals, and executives at this annual event in Dallas.

http://bigdesignevents.com/conference/

The ConvergeSE event put on by Unmatched Style examines the intersection between design, development and marketing over two days of workshops in Columbia, SC. We’re proud to be repeat sponsors of the event.

http://convergese.com/

We’re repeat sponsors of this awesome one-day conference. We also believe that less is more most of the time, so this event is right up our ally!

http://lessconf.lesseverything.com/

World IA Day, brings the Information Architecture community together at local IA events in 14 cities across the globe. The first ever World IA Day focuses on Designing Structures for Understanding. World IA Day takes place on February 11, 2012.

http://worldiaday.org/

MicroConf is a two-day conference focused on self-funded startups and single founder software companies.

http://www.microconf.com/

KickAwesome is a show dedicated to design, the web and general nerdery, with awesome hosts Nate Croft and Jon Longnecker.

http://kickawesome.tv/

Offscreen Magazine is an independent print publication about digital designers. Each issue is built around 6 lengthy interviews with creative minds—from aspiring freelancers to well known companies—taking a closer look at how they work, live and collaborate. They’ll explore office setups, co-working environments, freelance culture and all the things that influence digital creators.

http://offscreenmag.com/

UX London brings an international audience of User Experience Designers together for 3 days of inspiration, education and skills development. We’re proud to sponsor the high-calibre group of design speakers and workshop leaders for the 2012 UX London conference.

http://2012.uxlondon.com/

Rosenfeld Media publishes short, practical, and useful books and webinars, and holds workshops on user experience design. Their products explain the design and research methods that web pros need to make informed design decisions. We’re proud to sponsor the 2012 UX Workshop Tour.

http://rosenfeldmedia.com/workshops/

UX LX is a new conference being held in Lisbon, Portugal. They have an impressive line-up of speakers and are off to a great start!

http://www.ux-lx.com/

WebFWD (Web Forward), the Innovation Accelerator from Mozilla, brings together an awesome and diverse panel of mentors to provide practical advice to program participants for turning ideas into products and open solutions that push the Web forward. We’re proud to a be a partner in this amazing mentorship program.

https://webfwd.org/mentorship

Startup Lessons Learned is the first event designed to unite those interested in what it takes to succeed in building a lean startup. The goal for this event is to give practitioners and students of the lean startup methodology the opportunity to hear insights from leaders in embracing and deploying the core principles of the lean startup methodology. The day-long event will feature a mix of panels and talks focused on the key challenges and issues that technical and market-facing people at startups need to understand in order to succeed in building successful lean startups. May 23, 2011, San Francisco, CA.

http://www.sllconf.com

Interaction 11 is the annual conference of the Interaction Design Association, being held in Boulder, Colorado in February 2011. We’re proud to be one of the sponsors this year to support this valuable professional association in hosting another awesome UX conference.

http://www.ixda.org/interaction

52 Weeks of UX is a superbly written blog discussing the process of designing the user experience. The site is written and edited by Joshua Brewer and Joshua Porter, along with veteran designers contributing as guest authors.

http://52weeksofux.com/

Wireframes Magazine is a great blog if you’re into wireframing as much as we are. We have been a proud supporter of Jakub’s efforts from day one. He’s even building a community-driven open-source wireframing tool of his own! Check it out!

http://wireframes.linowski.ca/

Wireframe Showcase is a blog dedicated to showing the BEFORE and AFTER of interface design. You see the wireframes and the final results, with a cool overlay trick. It’s awesome, check it out.

http://www.wireframeshowcase.com

UX Week is one of the best events for User eXperience professionals out there. We are proud to support their efforts, together we can rid the world of bad software! :)

http://www.uxweek.com

We are proud to be part of the growing Atlassian eco-system and cannot imagine not attending their awesome San Francisco event!

We usually have a booth there. Come by and say hi!

http://summit.atlassian.com/

The Business of Software is our favorite conference in the world. We’re not a sponsor of the conference in the traditional sense (they don’t accept outside sponsorship), but we like to support it by throwing a big evening party with food and drinks for all of its attendees. We did it in San Francisco in 2009 and hope to do it again in the future.

Peldi was invited to speak there this year, which is like a dream come true.

http://www.businessofsoftware.org

We are proud to sponsor Better Software because it’s the premiere conference in Italy for small Italian software vendors like ourselves.

Marco live-blogged it on our Italian Language Blog and Peldi was invited to give a talk there as well.

http://www.bettersoftware.it

The Product Group is a meet-up for Product Managers based in New York City. The group is currently composed of 84 members who are devoted to excellence in all aspects of Product Management, Strategy, Experience, etc.

Since Balsamiq Mockups was originally designed as a way to enable product managers to participate in the wireframing process we were happy to offer them our support via a discount code for the group’s members and some exposure on our little blog.

http://tpgblog.com/TheProductGroup/

Find Invest Grow (or FIG) works with young entrepreneurs, specifically undergraduates and graduates of the past five years, to see them crystallize their ideas, support them through the development of their business plans and introduce them to suitable investors.

We are happy to be a FIG Partner, as it seems to be very useful to them. Here’s what FIG’s own James King had to say about us:

http://www.findinvestgrow.com

Mission

Support people who are helping others rid the world of bad software because we want them to continue to be successful, for the benefit of our whole community.

Approval Process (Read this first!)

We choose events based on how they fit with our sponsorship mission. We generally sponsor at a maximum of $USD 400, with the exception of one or two events we select each year for larger contributions. Here are some things we consider when looking at events.

• Relevance to our mission
• Reputation of speakers
• Reputation of organizers and host organization
• History of the event

We like the packages that require little from us.
We list the information and assets you can use in your materials.

We don’t need to distribute collateral materials. If that’s a benefit of your sponsor package, we’d prefer a reduction in fees for us to NOT include collateral materials in your welcome package and swag bags. Use of our logo and company/product information is sufficient.

We usually don’t need tickets to the events for ourselves. If a ticket is part of the package, we’ll be happy to raffle it off to one of our customers.

Apply

When you write your first email to us include all of the following information:

• Your name, title, company/organization
• Name of your event
• Location and date of event
• Description of event

You can send us an email to start the process.

If We Sponsor Your Event#

We will need an invoice.
With your invoice please send us information on how we should make our payment.

If we are paying in US Dollars, please address the invoice to:

Balsamiq Studios, LLC
PO Box 1138
Sacramento, CA 95812

If we are paying in Euros, please address the invoice to:

Balsamiq SRL
via San Pier Tommaso 18/3
40139 Bologna (BO)
Italia
P.IVA e C.F. IT 02921031205

Payment information
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For sponsorships in US Dollars, we prefer to pay by PayPal or credit card.
For sponsorship in Euros, we like to do wire transfers.

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