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 I love Origami and have always recommended the software to other designers. I use Origami on a daily basis, especially when working on new packaging designs. It's nice to see how a box/package looks live while working on moving elements around in the artwork along with making sure dielines work properly and there won't be much work needed on the vendor's end to adjust dielines.
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 Proper view of closed or open box Control of adding degree of angle for flaps to see how a box looks open or closed High resolution exports from Origami to other softwares Love the new capability of being able to add multiple boxes for a group render/image 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 It can be glitchy at times Challenging dielines can sometimes be difficult to render in Origami unless you trick it Large files with a lot of elements can slow down the software 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 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 Origami is a faster/easier way to view and render 3D views of packaging files--especially the instant gratification when adjusting artwork and or dielines before rendering out to other softwares. Other than
Blender being free, this software is much easier to use for unexperienced users. Someone can learn Origami in matter of minutes--that's how easy it is.
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 No negative impact Price is great Saved us time and money in dieline creation Saved us time on rendering out DAE files from origami to other softwares for rendering Read full review ScreenShots