Abstract vs. Avaza

• Large teams with dedicated design operations support
• UX managers that want a facilitated workflow for their teams
• Disciplined teams of individual contributors that want to adopt a process in their UI workflow
• Cross-discipline teams that want a central collaboration space for reviewing and critiquing UI artifacts
• If your files are named "FOR-REALS_FINAL_FINAL_FINAL_Super-Important-Project (copy).sketch"
• If you're managing multiple pattern libraries

Incentivized

We are a pretty unique business because we deal with bookkeeping, marketing, and HR and across all 3 departments, we have been able to successfully use the tool. Other software we have tried usually caters to one industry at a time.

Incentivized

• Versioning for desginers
• Collaboration between team members

Incentivized

• It switches between Kanban view, List view, and Gantt charts which fits varying preferences!
• It helps us work smart by creating dependencies and linking tasks to calendars
• It has a clean, intuitive dashboard that's very easy to navigate

• Asset exports are not as great as Zeplin and others.
• Filtering within files.

Incentivized

• The interface and taxonomy could use an update, sometimes it's hard to figure out where things logically are or should be.

Incentivized

Because it has been amazing and easy to work with.

Incentivized

Abstract has a difficult learning curve. If a feature-branch workflow is new to you, then it will take some getting used to. They make a lot of updates to the interface and these feature releases get ahead of their documentation. They rely heavily on an excellent customer support team and are present on various Slack channels to help design professionals with issues.

Incentivized

Avaza is very easy to use, but the mobile app needs work.

Incentivized

Abstract by nature is complex and has to respond to whatever changes in Sketch. So there are frequent issues. Support can be slow to respond and are not always helpful, but they are quick to find and patch the bugs. Overall, it's not the best support, but it hasn't been detrimental.

Incentivized

They are always available and open to doing a call or a shared screen to walk through the issues.

Incentivized

I purchased and administer Abstract. It was requested by our design department who evaluated it.

Incentivized

Avaza takes the easy of Asana and adds the invoicing and bookkeeping capabilities you need all in one place.

Incentivized

• Single source of truth for the team.
• Could quickly get expensive with corporate accounts.

Incentivized

• Avaza has made it easier to see how long I spend on certain types of projects and where I could be spending more time.

Incentivized