Balsamiq is a software company that provides wireframing tools for designing user interfaces. It focuses on creating low-fidelity wireframes that are intended to facilitate a more productive discussion around design decisions.

Giacomo Guilizzoni

Balsamiq

Design Studio UI/UX provides global UI/UX design services, including web and mobile app design.

Design Studio UI/UX

Qt Group Oyj develops, productizes, and licenses software development tools under commercial and open source licenses Finland, Norway, Germany, the United States, Japan, China, South Korea, France, the United Kingdom, and India. It offers Qt Design Studio, a user interface design and development tool for applications; Qt Creator, a cross-platform integrated development environment for application development; and Qt Framework that contains C++ library classes and APIs offers cross-platform development solutions. The company also provides professional, consulting, training, partner, and support services. It offers its services to automotive, industrial automation, consumer electronics, and medical industries. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

Haavard Nord

Eirik Chambe-Eng

Qt Group Oyj

FIMAC focuses on generating client inquiries to increase sales through tailored strategies and data-driven marketing campaigns, self-described as enhancing loyalty programs and customer engagement.

FIMAC

Balsamiq is a solid, independent little software company. We believe that life’s too short for bad software!

We started in 2008 as a one-man-shop, and have been growing organically ever since. 

Balsamiq Wireframes is our small graphical tool to sketch out user interfaces, for websites and web / desktop / mobile applications. We focus on the ideation phase, providing you with a clean tool that lets you get in the flow and stay focussed on structure rather than colors and icons. Balsamiq provides enough interactivity to replace prototypes most of the time, and makes it easy to collaborate and get feedback on your wireframes.

Get 'em while they're hot! 😎  A fresh batch of our favorite UX and UI links published in the last month:

1. Embracing the Absurd in Your Design Practices (https://lnkd.in/gWnyxqRZ) by Karina Chow

2. Enabling Magicians, Not Magic ✨ (https://lnkd.in/ghc8jttW) by Ellen Chisa

3. The Blurring Lines Between UX and Digital Marketing (https://lnkd.in/grPRTCwg) by Bethany J.

4. Indicators, Validations, and Notifications: Pick the Correct Communication Option (https://lnkd.in/ePeRCNgS) by Kim Salazar

5. When (And Why) Noise Creates Churn (https://lnkd.in/gVM5rN42) by Peter Ramsey

Leave a comment with your favorite article so far this month and we'll add it to our reading list!

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Forget about aimless meetings and circular discussions.

A solid design brief brings focus, alignment, and clarity—right from the start of your project.

And after seeing hundreds (maybe thousands) of these, we’ve found that the best briefs are clear and easy to read. Here’s the checklist:

- A clear project description
- Project background and business context
- Your main objective – the 'why'
- Essential features your project must have
- Design considerations
- Success metrics

We put together a quick video with UX educator and author, Billy Carlson, to walk you through it: https://lnkd.in/dRyASzJi

Looking back at Balsamiq’s 2023 👉 https://lnkd.in/d_KRdurm

Introducing our brand new, FREE course: "Rapid Wireframing with Balsamiq"!

With this course, you’ll learn how to:
- Clearly define your app’s scope and audience
- Design interfaces quickly and efficiently
- Enhance your wireframes with a professional polish
- Link them together to create an interactive, clickable prototype
- Adapt your designs seamlessly for mobile use

Let’s get started!
https://lnkd.in/dH4TsMDP

Did you know that every month we hand-pick 5 great UX and UI articles and share them on our blog?
Here are our picks from last month:

1. Deceptive Patterns in UX: How to Recognize and Avoid Them (https://lnkd.in/gHrTBHH6) by Maria Rosala

2. Designing Outside the Lines: Radical Creativity in Product Design (https://lnkd.in/guCtSxK6) by Suchithra Sathiyamurthy

3. The Creative Playground (https://lnkd.in/gUkryUX9) by Ralph Ammer

4. Improve Validation Errors with Adaptive Messages (98% Don’t) (https://lnkd.in/dADDmTNU) by Baymard Institute

5. Navigation Patterns in Mobile Applications. How to Make the Right Choice? (https://lnkd.in/eaBRRmGB) by Ksenia Toloknova

If you like these, check out our our Wireframing Academy (https://lnkd.in/gurQGDuE) where you can find 6 years worth of quality reads to stay current and level-up your knowledge.

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Company Name	Balsamiq	Design Studio UI/UX	Qt Group Oyj	FIMAC
Symbol			QTCOM
MSH ID	COM:BALSAMIQ	COM:DESIGNSTUDIOUIUX	IO:QT	US:FIMAC
Market	PRIVATE	PRIVATE	STOCKS	PRIVATE
Sector	Technology	Technology	Technology	Commercial & Professional Services
Industry	Software Development Tools	Design Services	Software - Application	Marketing Services
Country		US	FI	US
Stage			Series B
Employee Count	43		806
Website	balsamiq.com	designstudiouiux.com	qt.io	fimac.us
LinkedIn	balsamiq	design-studio-india
Founders

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Market Cap		2.05B
Enterprise Value
Monthly Web Traffic	14.70K	1.84M
Web Traffic Growth	0.22	0.43
Valuation
Raised Capital		6.70M

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Revenue			190.91M
Revenue (LTM)
Revenue (NTM)
Gross Profit			81.61M
EBITDA			61.79M
Operating Income			49.97M
Net Income			37.45M
EPS			1.48
Diluted EPS			1.47
Revenue 2022
Revenue 2023
Revenue 2024
Revenue 2025
Revenue 2026

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Revenue Growth (LTM)
Revenue Growth (NTM)
Gross Profit Growth (LTM)
EBITDA Growth (LTM)
Net Income Growth (LTM)
14-Day Growth Score
28-Day Growth Score
90-Day Growth Score
365-Day Growth Score

Metric
Gross Profit Margin			0.47
Operating Profit Margin			0.29
EBITDA Margin			0.32
Net Profit Margin			0.23
Return on Equity			0.35
Return on Assets			0.21
Return on Capital Employed			0.35

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Balsamiq

Company Overview

Market Metrics

Financial Performance

Growth Metrics

Profitability Ratios

Valuation Multiples

Operational Metrics

Cash Flow Metrics

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Metric
P/E Ratio			52.60
P/B Ratio			15.67
Revenue Multiple (LTM)
Revenue Multiple (NTM)
EBITDA Multiple (LTM)
EBITDA Multiple (NTM)
Price to Sales Ratio			12.39
EV Multiple			36.61

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Days Sales Outstanding
Days Payables Outstanding			10.96
Days Inventory Outstanding			0.00
Operating Cycle			141.72
Cash Conversion Cycle			130.92
Asset Turnover			0.94

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Operating Cash Flow			42.29M
Free Cash Flow			41.44M
Cash Flow to Debt			11.75
Operating Cash Flow/Sales			0.24
Free Cash Flow Yield			0.02

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Cash & Equivalents			35.48M
Accounts Receivable			-11.41M
Inventory
Goodwill			46.86M
Debt to Capitalization			0.14
Debt to Assets			0.11
Current Ratio			1.50
Quick Ratio			2.26

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Rule of 40 (LTM)
Rule of 40 (NTM)
Stock Comp to Revenue			-0.00
R&D to Revenue
SG&A to Revenue