For the last few months I had the opportunity to use Balsamiq’s Mockups on a really big client. I had to create wireframes for about 80 web pages. At the high point, I had open more than 40 wireframes. Here’s how it held up.

Mockups is an Adobe Air app, which can be buggy, but I find Mockups to be fairly stable in Windows XP. It got a little slow, but performed well.

I love that Mockups assumes you will be working with lots of files, with options like “Close all” and “Export all”. What a time saver!

My only complaint is there is no functionality for includes. Since this was a web site, every wireframe had one of two headers (“logged in” and “logged out”). I created groups for headers so it was one copy and paste, but that’s one per file. I would I love to have been able to update a two files and have all my wireframes change.

So over all, it was great. Performance was fine and it made my life easier. Don’t think you need an “established” product for doing lots of wireframes. Balsamiq continues to rock my world.

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