Cacoo vs. Marvel

It's a great alternative to taking photos of whiteboards to save for later reference, you can just create them here. It's also the best option I've found for creating workflows and organization charts, especially complex ones. If you have just a simple workflow or chart, it's probably too robust or complicated for those needs. Save it for the trickier or messier ones!

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The best Marvel scenario is when you have an application that has different navigability options, and it is a long project. Marvel works to design these applications, as well as give a demo in the design to present it to customers and visualize how your application will be on the client side. This is an advantage for the whole team because the client knows what to expect, and the developer know what to develop. I also appreciate the logical order between options and navigation, which allows you to carry everything out very cleanly when working. Now, if there are projects that are short and do not have a level of design that requires you to present your application to a client in a visual way, it is not necessary to work on Marvel, since the ideal use of this application is to really see the scope of a project, to see in a visual way what will be presented and how it will look, and to see functions and features that will be available in some way when the application is developed. That is the great advantage of using marvel.

• Creative resource for various visual support items
• The free version is robust and nice to staff who have not used it before to get to know the product
• Support has been helpful when needed

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• Extremely intuitive and clean interface. The design is beautiful and simple to navigate.
• The links are easy to share and allowed our teams to collaborate (leave comments, annotate, etc.) designs.
• It's very fast and easy to create simple prototypes.

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• UI navigation
• Connector flexibility
• Improved table object

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• Would never hurt to have a greater range of micro-interactions!
• A greater range of project frames/devices
• I would like to see an easier way to demonstrate responsiveness to clients, rather than having to have separate mockup files

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Cacoo is web-based and OS independent. OmniGraffle is a local install and mac only. Microsoft Visio is a desktop app also and Windows only. Two strikes for me, as I use between 2-4 different computers daily where I expect my applications to be always up-to-date and files synchronized.

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Marvel isn’t the most robust prototyping tool, but its simplicity is what makes the tool rise to the top when it comes to creating quick, simple prototypes to elicit feedback on designs and iterate upon them. While tools like InVision and Axure provide many tools to make more realistic, animation-heavy designs, Marvel is a go-to for a simple interface that enables designers to “just design.” Sometimes it is not necessary to have all of the bells and whistles of a stronger tool, particularly when a designer is low on time. Marvel’s simplicity allows designers to quickly design and iterate in time crunches without the distractions of fancy bells and whistles.

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• Allowed us to diagram out our user needs, saving us many hours of collaboration
• Allowed us to diagram out our system architecture, saving us many hours of rework
• Sufficient to wireframe a UI as a guiding post to the design while prototyping. Lowers overhead of additional software adoption at early stages.

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• Creating prototypes of applications, or sites in marvel, guarantees me a considerable return, as it saves time and effort, because the client is quickly introduced to the various stages of prototyping, which avoids rework.
• Another plus point, it's free!
• No need to download programs, it's all done online.

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