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Product Heroes - il PodcastDa un side project a un’azienda globale: la storia di Balsamiq con Giacomo Peldi GuilizzoniCome si crea un prodotto usato in tutto il mondo partendo da un’idea semplice? In questo episodio di Product Heroes, Giacomo Peldi Guilizzoni, fondatore di Balsamiq, racconta il percorso che l’ha portato da sviluppatore in Adobe a creare uno dei tool di wireframing più conosciuti al mondo.Parleremo di: • Come è nata l’idea di Balsamiq e perché il wireframing è fondamentale nello sviluppo prodotto • Perché il low-fidelity wireframing aiuta a prendere decisioni migliori • La scelta di rimanere bootstrapped e indipendenti • I momenti difficili e le lezioni più importanti lungo il percorso • L’impatto dell’AI sul futuro del product management e dei tool di progetta...2025-04-1645 min
The Human Centered Design Podcast (This is HCD) | Service Design & UXLeon Barnard 'Wireframing for Everyone'If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter. Design Smarter. Lead Better.I'm delighted to have you with me for another cracking episode this time with Leon Barnard, co-author of the brand spanking new book on A Book Apart, called Wireframing for Everyone.Leon, Michael and Bill all work for one of my absolute favourite UX businesses, Balsamiq. A wire framing tool that when it came out in 2008, was revolutionary. It reduced the exclusivity around the capability of wire framing, and made it accessible...2023-10-0342 min
The Human Centered Design Podcast (This is HCD) | Service Design & UXLeon Barnard 'Wireframing for Everyone'Show some love for today's sponsor, MIRO. https://www.miro.com/podcastHey Premium'ster! Thanks for supporting us and super happy to have you as a supporter of This is HCD!I'm delighted to have you with me for another cracking episode this time with Leon Barnard, co-author of the brand spanking new book on A Book Apart, called Wireframing for Everyone.Leon, Michael and Bill all work for one of my absolute favourite UX businesses, Balsamiq. A wire framing tool that when it came out in 2008, was revolutionary. It reduced the exclusivity...2023-09-2542 min
MicroConf On AirMicroConf Refresh Episode 32: Victories & Tragedies The 3 Year Journey Building Balsamiq Cloud Peldi Guilizzoni MicroConf Europe 2019Build a SaaS app!" they said... "It'll be great!" they said...it turns out, running an online service Is a big pain in the SaaS. In this talk I will tell you all about designing, building, selling, scaling, maintaining and supporting balsamiq.cloud, the online version of Balsamiq Wireframes. I'll focus on 'the things they don't tell you' and even give you the dirt about a massive data-loss incident from May 2018. Fasten your seatbelts, there will be turbulence!
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Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni is a programmer turned entrepreneur, who founded Balsamiq in 2008 and has been learning...2021-07-2236 min
Mastering RemotePeldi (Balsamiq) - Continuous Learning as Remote Company DNA - S1E8Today I’m joined by Giacomo “Peldi” Guilizzoni, the CEO of Balsamiq. In this episode, we talked about Balsamiq’s culture (specifically around the core value of continuous learning and the importance of experiments), the growing pains Peldi experienced as a leader, and more.
We also had a quick peek into Balsamiq’s hiring and onboarding process. We also talked about why Peldi strongly prefers to employ remote team members, rather than have them as contractors (which is a common practice amongst remote/distributed companies).
I really admire the self-aware nature of Balsamiq, which is a byproduct of Peldi’s personality...2019-10-2949 min
Product LoveGiacomo(Peldi)Guilizzoni, CEO of Balsamiq, joins Product Love to talk about humanizing softwarePeldi, the CEO of Balsamiq, embodies some of the best attributes of both successful CEOs and product managers. He is always learning and looking to learn. He strives to deliver not only a product that his customers love, but to build a company, culture and community that help his customers beyond the ordinary product features.
Despite his jokes to the contrary, Peldi is in no way clueless, his humility and thoughtful approach to his business are refreshing and he should serve as an inspiration to entrepreneurs looking to build a business with or without venture funding.
I think you will...2018-07-2529 min
Build Launch ScaleEpisode 012: Wireframing with the King of Wireframing, PeldiIs wireframing and prototyping the same thing? If not, which is more useful? Should product people get involved with wireframing... or is wireframing just something for UX folks? We ask these questions and others to Giacomo "Peldi" Guilizzoni, the Founder and CEO of Balsamiq... and upcoming speaker at INDUSTRY: The Product Conference in Dublin, Ireland in April, 2018.2017-11-1319 min
Starting from Nothing - The Foundation Podcast | Building your business ENTIRELY from scratch.SFN197: How to make $2M in profit with zero fundingToday’s guest made $2M in profit last year without tracking any metrics. Giacomo Peldi Guilizzoni is Founder and CEO of Balsamiq Studios, LLC. Their goal is to help people create software and websites that are easier to use by providing software tools, teaching people about UX and building a long-lasting company. Balsamiq is unique because it has been bootstrapped for the past 8 years, and it was an almost instant success. Within 27 months, Balsamiq made $2M in revenue and every year, for the past five years, Balsamiq has made $2M in pro...2017-01-2046 min
Starting & SustainingPeldi, Founder of BalsamiqPeldi and I talk about moving from California to Italy to lower his cost of living to start a company, juggling different delivery formats for software (and the associated payments challenges), giving amazing support, and bending over backwards to help customers. While he originally didn't want to grow the business beyond himself, Balsamiq is now a team of 23 people based all around the world.Special Guest: Giacomo “Peldi” Guilizzoni.Sponsored By:Starting & Sustaining: The second edition of Starting & Sustaining will be out in late 2017. Visit the site to get on the list and be the...2016-12-2636 min