Likelihood to Recommend 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 Read full review When collaborating with a team on content creation with the purpose of bringing multiple inputs in a nonstructured or nonfixed media type, this is a great choice because of its diversity of content and collaboration tools, however, if you are looking to have high flexibility in a particular content creation stream, for example, sophisticated text editing or presentation, there are a lot of strong competitors out there.
Read full review Pros Versioning for desginers Collaboration between team members Read full review With Dropbox Paper, I can insert images and videos into your document, to make the document more visual, which is helpful for creating newsletters and simple flyers. Once you create a document, you can save it as a template to be reused as a starting point for creating new documents. Dropbox Paper has some basic formatting features like bolding text, adding links, and creating H1 and H2 headings. You can insert tables into your Dropbox Paper document Dropbox Paper also has an unusual but helpful feature, and that is the time line feature. Read full review Cons Asset exports are not as great as Zeplin and others. Filtering within files. Read full review No spell check feature. No going back to "old versions" once changes are made they are permanent, with no restriction setting or ability to see previous versions. Read full review Likelihood to Renew as already explained this software only does branching... the rest is really poor and basic
Read full review Usability 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.
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review Alternatives Considered I purchased and administer Abstract. It was requested by our design department who evaluated it.
Read full review I was not part of the decision making to acquire the
Dropbox tool against any of the other options and competitors. However, I can assume that the fact that we have been using
Dropbox File Management for many years and many important files are stored and shared in the tool everyday, the adding of
Dropbox Paper should have been felt very natural.
Read full review Return on Investment Single source of truth for the team. Could quickly get expensive with corporate accounts. Read full review Dropbox Paper has allowed all of our employees to be much more productive and on track even when we can't be in the office, which from a management standpoint is a huge positive impact. They know that productivity isn't slowing or lacking when everyone isn't actually sitting in the office under their watchful eye. It has had a huge impact on our turn around time and speed of getting more work and projects completed. The more work you can effectively get done in a time period means more money for the bottom line. It has made the majority of our team members more accountable and reliable when they know everyone is working together on something and each person has their own checklist of items to complete. It is especially helpful that everyone can see the same checklist, so everyone knows what each other is accomplishing. Read full review ScreenShots