Likelihood to Recommend I can keep up with our UX/UI designer using iRise, and he's on a Mac and loves the Sketch, inVision software. I often trump him, by having all the direct customer feedback in place. This also works well with Pragmatic Marketing's approach to software. Requirements can be coded in line with Pragmatic's Strategy to Tactical framework. Love this software!
Read full review Marvel is a very strong tool in scenarios where designers seek to quickly create simple prototypes on their desktops using a simple, intuitive interface. It offers “just enough” functionality to create somewhat realistic designs to present to stakeholders and other designers. However, there’s a limit to how “realistic” those designs can be, given that Marvel has somewhat limited functionality around animations. Marvel is not a strong option for those who want to create very complex prototypes with many animations, or for those who want to edit prototypes on their tablet or phone. Marvel is a jewel for simplicity but starts to be difficult to use when creating complicated designs. For creating more complicated prototypes, I would recommend a more robust tool, such as Axure.
Read full review Pros Recently my client has to have hovers as an enhancement to the current app. I used irise to show them how it would look in the future and they didn't like it. Finally because of the irise wireframe they decided not to have the hover - which was good before it was too late. Client wanted a new interface to import Excel docs into the interface. I used irise to prototype the whole functionality. Irise has helped reduce discussion times a lot. Read full review Easy to use with a fast learning curve The handoff option allows developers to extract CSS code to copy design styles Read full review Cons When working on a complex page that has multiple sections with multiple views of each sections, it gets difficult to navigate to the section you want. It would be easier if there was a search functionality for searching the sections or components within the page. Drag and drop controls to have more properties. e.g. for a button. It would be easier if the properties included BorderStyle, BorderWidth, Color, BackColor etc. Currently, these options are not available on the properties and we have to use the formatting tool bar. Read full review I really miss being able to duplicate, make a copy of the prototype I'm working on. Sometimes, I want to make a comparison with detail changes and without being able to duplicate it is difficult. Compared to other similar services, I feel the animations could be more fluid and smoother. It could have more free sophisticated icons and images. Read full review Likelihood to Renew This platform solves the problem that enterprise software sales teams encounter, and iRise cuts to the chase. Sales people often say "do your magic thing with the prototype" and the customer gives immediate feedback, we change it on the fly
Read full review Alternatives Considered We have used iRise instead of tools like Word, Excel, Visio, and other diagram tools found online. iRise is good because I think it captures the good parts of all these packages into one. I am able to easily create diagrams and mockups in one software package instead of cobbling together a bunch of other solutions.
Read full review Ultimately,
InVision was just a better fit for our company's needs. It's probably faster to create prototypes using Marvel, but
InVision 's collaboration features (comments, notes, etc.) are much more robust, which was helpful for our large team spread across multiple continents.
InVision also offers more advanced features, and Marvel felt a little too limited for our overall business needs.
Read full review Return on Investment iRise allowed us to generate a very high fidelity mockup based on extensive business requirements gathered from stakeholders. This excellent mockup resulted in us being awarded a very large multi-year contract from a major corporation. Read full review It helped me improve my productivity. It took me lot of time to manually design mockups earlier when I used Adobe Photoshop to do it. Because of quickly creating mockups, now I provide my clients with more than 4-5 options which is welcomed by clients and make them happy. Definitely the ROI and improved, because of time saved and happy clients. Read full review ScreenShots