Abstract vs. Flock

• 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

Flock provides a casual as well as professional approach. Prevents the hassles of communicating over phones. Once logged out the employee will not be disturbed after work hours. All the information, messages, and data that have been communicated to date are secure & can be accessed anytime. A great channel to pass on information to all the employees within an instant.

Incentivized

• Versioning for desginers
• Collaboration between team members

Incentivized

• Real-time communication is perfect.
• The mobile apps really let us take everything on the go.
• It integrates perfectly with our calendar.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Flock's video and audio quality is sometimes poor as a result of poor internet connectivity
• It has a messaging limit of 10,000 messages which makes it hard for us to keep messages for future reference

Incentivized

as already explained this software only does branching... the rest is really poor and basic

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

The user interface is fantastic and that makes it easier for all the users

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

We've only needed customer support a few times with Flock (mainly concerning app integration and security), and they've always been timely and helpful, which are the only things I truly need from support. The response rate was still rapid, and there's plenty of support available online as well for Flock.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

I did not like Google Hangouts. Hangouts is more geared toward personal communication instead of business related communication. Flock is also a lot easier to use and has more options related to a business setting.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• It did provide a creative space for conversation and this does equal a great return on investment, considering the investment is free for the base use.
• For the team members who enjoyed using it, it helped them save time in their day by having a repository for notes and creative ideas.

Incentivized