Likelihood to Recommend InVision is well suited for design reviews and immersing yourself in the experience of an app-to-be. As a Product Manager, it's difficult to take abstract concepts, user pain points, and business needs, and produce a vision for an app without a visual aid to communicate a vision. InVIsion offers PMs, designers, and developers the opportunity to sketch a vision, communicate about it with inline commenting, and shareable with other stakeholders.
Read full review MockFlow is a great tool for low-fidelity wireframing for quick validation & contextualization of UX & UI hypotheses. It is not a substitute for full-fledged designing tools such as
Figma or Adobe XD.
Read full review Pros Very easy to export Sketch files (where prototypes are actually created) into Invision and preserve the interactivity. Additional interactivity can be added in InVision. Like scrolling with locked footer. Clients, designer and developers can collaborate - leave notes and respond to notes made by others. Read full review Ease of use. The UX is great. A decent number of pre-built UI elements such as browser frames, dropdowns, buttons, etc. Good prototyping ability. We can create decent prototypes using links. Collaborating capability for multiple members in a team. Ease of exporting the wires in different formats. Read full review Cons would be nice to have commands for quick access to shapes from the keyboard Quicker integrations with Notion and lucid chart to have a slick experience The auto organize option should have multiple frame selection, sometimes is not the arranged expected for the wireframe Read full review Grouping the similar elements together to further enhance the UX. Detailing the wires is still clumsy. Monochromatic UI can be improved a bit. Icon availability is limited. More collaboration features. Grouping of elements in the wires is cumbersome. Read full review Likelihood to Renew it does what we bought it for, so would buy again :)
Read full review Usability The interface is well designed, but I had a hard time figuring out how the various pieces of software integrate together.
Read full review Easy UI & good UX makes the usability very convenient.
Read full review Support Rating I didn't need to contact InVision support, as I've never needed it. They have an intuitive UI, and most of the questions are answered in their help portal or in tutorials online. Since many people use it, there a great resources available on for example YouTube. No problems so far with InVision.
Read full review Alternatives Considered We only tested out using
Adobe XD for similar uses and found it to be more challenging to fit within our processes. It didn't have as robust a set of capabilities as InVision and wasn't as easy to use enterprise wide. I recall also having issues with working with Sketch.
Read full review Figma is a high-fidelity designing tool and provides too many features which would be overkill if we are looking for basic prototyping. Also, if you are not a designer and just want to create basic wires or prototypes as a Business Analyst or Product Manager, MockFlow would suffice your needs. But if you are focusing on pixel-perfect designs then I would suggest going for
Figma . The ease of usability with MockFlow is very convenient as there would be a steep learning curve for
Figma .
Balsamiq is very similar to MockFlow but the wires created in it look a bit sketchy & clumsy.
Read full review Return on Investment InVision helps our team better and more professionally portray the value and the work we do as designers, leading to more company buy-in in supporting and funding our work. In the past, we would create PowerPoints with screenshots to portray a user workflow that we would share out to stakeholders. Once we began to use this app, where stakeholders could click through and comment as though they were “real” users, stakeholders began to better understand our work, designs, and workflows. This has led to more productive conversations that, in turn, lead to more effective end products that have more consistently served our business goals in tangible ways. InVision helps us save production time, effort, and cost, as we are able to solve design issues early in the process by having clickable prototypes to show to internal stakeholders and external users. It’s, understandably, difficult for people to provide effective feedback on screenshots. Using the clickable prototypes we created in InVision, we are able to get more effective feedback to solve user workflow issues before we spend time and money developing problematic designs (and later having to redesign them). It’s easier to market designs to potential buyers with clickable prototypes than with screenshots. With these prototypes, we’ve been able to sell more digital products before product release dates, which has helped to secure many contracts and new business relationships that continue to this day. Read full review Low turnaround time for creating wireframes resulting in aligning the team on a single path. Validating UX & UI hypothesis quickly leading to less rework & quicker results Saving to & fro time with parallel collaboration feature. Read full review ScreenShots