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Business Problems Solved

InVision has been widely used by design teams to streamline the website design process and gather valuable feedback from clients. By providing tools for diagramming ideas, drawing wireframes, and creating prototypes, InVision has supported the translation of design discoveries into actual flows. Designers have found it beneficial for sharing initial mockups with clients and prototype dynamic designs with clickable interactive prototypes. This feature allows for a more in-depth feel of the design and facilitates collaboration and iterative improvements.

Additionally, InVision has played a crucial role in filling communication gaps and promoting collaboration between product, design, and engineering teams, as well as key stakeholders. It simplifies the design process for websites and digital marketing materials by allowing for easy client review and code extraction during development phases. The software's accessibility and project management features make it particularly useful for designers, UI/UX specialists, project managers, and product owners. Furthermore, InVision has been recommended by senior designers for its ability to upload designed interfaces and provide notes, making it easier for teams to understand the design intent. Overall, InVision has proven to be an invaluable tool in enhancing collaboration, facilitating handoff, and improving the overall efficiency of the design process.

Reviews

49 Reviews

Interactive Prototyping that Feels Real but can be better

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

collaborating with product design with stakeholders globally. At times need to connect on mockup discussions and get feedbacks before dev begins. Identifying design gaps, keeping team involved, consistency in design and to avoid reworks. Saves us time to some extend, also easy to scale and refer back when needed. Connecting to Figma is a bonus

Pros

  • Interactive prototype - real product experience
  • Reviewers can comment
  • Inspect tool quick support

Cons

  • Editing high fidelity designs
  • Freehand is complex and crashes
  • traceability in Figma when manually updated

Likelihood to Recommend

version control is good for tracking, able to integrate with JIRA, confluence and figma that we use. helps with early collaborations easy with stakeholders, doesnt take a lot of time for them to understand and use the tool. Prebuilt components are useful saves time. pixel perfect implementations is possible avoid rework
VU
Verified User
Professional in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
InVision
3 years of experience

great tool for interactive prototypes

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InVision for multiple applications. We share our initial mockups with our clients and we mainly use it to prototype and demo our dynamic prototypes to our customers. The most beneficial feature for us is that clickable interactive prototype. Another helpful thing is for our developers, there is a way to display what styling has been used in the design that is easily copied to code.

Pros

  • prototyping
  • convey styling for developers based on design
  • team collaboration
  • assets sharing
  • design system

Cons

  • inspect can be improved upon
  • integrations with other software like notion
  • version control

Likelihood to Recommend

An example of a great use of the prototyping feature is that you can all be in a meeting room, share the url and all click through the mobile app prototype on your phone. This creates a much more natural way of experiencing how a product is going to behave in the real world, rather than on a big screen.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
InVision
2 years of experience

InVision: A Great Tool for PMs to Share Designs with Teams and Customers

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InVision as a solution for UX artifacts, including journey maps, mockups, and interactive wireframes. Specifically, our UX designers take the lead with designs and share these designs with relevant stakeholders. We review designs among UX and Product folks as well as embed InVision artifacts into user stories. Often, after concepts are validated internally, we share InVision assets directly with customers for their review. Our work spans various enterprise apps in the business.

Pros

  • Features to enable clickable prototypes
  • Organization of wireframes to map out user flows
  • Easily shareable assets

Cons

  • For non-primary users, navigation can be difficult.
  • Embedding of assets into other software is a challenge.
  • When clicking through a flow, it would be nice to easily navigate to other screens without backtracking to the main menu.

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.
GJ
Greg Jubb
Product Manager in Information Technology at Total Wine & More (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
InVision
1 year of experience

Great for DSM and simple prototyping

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used InVision for prototypes in user testing, wireframing concepts, DSM, collaboration, and design handoff. It helps address usability issues, makes inspecting design files easy for engineering, and has a well-organized DSM that can be auto-updated through Sketch. Freehand makes collaborating/brainstorming remotely easy and files can be shared with a public link.

Pros

  • Craft plugin to Sketch allows for streamlined updates from design files.
  • Easy to share prototypes.
  • Design system manager

Cons

  • Limited prototyping functionality.
  • Cannot turn off swipe to next screen on prototype (has messed up user tests).
  • Have to design in separate software (Figma, Sketch).

Likelihood to Recommend

InVision is best suited for when you need a simple prototype for quick feedback. It is also useful for wireframing, creating user flows, and collaborating with non-designers. It is less appropriate when needing a robust prototype with animation/complex transitions.
VT
Veronique Tally
UX Researcher in Product Management at MidFirst Bank (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
InVision
3 years of experience

It's fine, I wish my company would switch to Figma

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InVision for clickable prototyping, high and low-fidelity wireframing, as well as brand development. We address problems surrounding branding, design, usability, and function in mostly web-based products. Our goals include improving customer satisfaction and loyalty by researching, building, or redesigning products that meet business requirements and are both easy to learn and use, while simultaneously pleasing the users.

Pros

  • InVision makes building user flows extremely easy.
  • InVision makes iterating wireframes even faster.
  • InVision makes reacting to different variations of designs simple.

Cons

  • InVision inspect mode doesn't have all the functionality compared to Zeplin- there are certain things you can't download.
  • Can't rotate anything in InVision.

Likelihood to Recommend

InVision is great for copy pasting screenshots of logo variations and reacting to them. InVision is not great for designing the logos, or designing anything with a lot of detail. Freehand is also great for assembling low fidelity wireframes/sketches, but not appropriate for creating high fidelity mockups. When you need any quick, rough designs, freehand is great. The more detail you need, the less appropriate freehand becomes.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Marketing (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
InVision
1 year of experience

Invision on the fly

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is currently used in plenty of different ways, but the main focus it has within the product area is to provide support on how discoveries are performed and translated into actual flows and wireframes. That support comes from its different tools to diagram ideas on the fly, as well as it provides a set of multiple focused shapes that are a great match to draw wireframes and validate ideas

Pros

  • Provides quick tools for wireframe drawing
  • tools for flow mapping/drawing
  • Easy connection with third party applications, via links or direct connections

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

Likelihood to Recommend

When the main focus is to provide support on how discoveries are performed and translated into actual raw flows and wireframes, that is a great experience and really quick when needed to be performed on the fly and helps to validate ideas quite quickly. On the other hand, when it comes to final flows, based on its lack of shapes, I reckon other tools perform better
VU
Verified User
Manager in Product Management (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
InVision
1 year of experience

Headed for Extinction

Rating: 3 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

InVision is used by our product, design, and engineering teams. It is also used by key stakeholders. InVision provides basic prototyping, project communication, collaboration (Freehand), and handoff (Inspect) capabilities. It fills the communication gaps at the project level between designers and stakeholders. It also extends the capabilities of product mangers and promotes real-time collaboration.

Pros

  • Real-time collaboration
  • Archival design artifacts
  • Low-friction access

Cons

  • Clarity in user access/billing
  • Branching/versioning
  • Prototyping

Likelihood to Recommend

InVision has low-friction and easy-to-use features for basic design workflows. Most teams could get up to speed with InVision quite easily, but the problems start when the features run out and you realize you're paying for more users than you had budgeted for. InVision's access and billing structure makes it hard to get out of if you decide to use other tools instead. After basic usage, you will be wanting more, but InVision's product has had slow release over the last six years. New products are promised and rarely delivered. The people at InVision are great and the tool is good enough, but you end up filling the gaps with other paid-for tools.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Product Management (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
InVision
6 years of experience

InVision aids in fast virtual collaboration

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InVision with Sketch to prototype the software we are developing. We use it to share with different stakeholders across many different teams across the whole company. The development team also uses the InVision inspect feature to get design details and content of the design when they are writing the code.

Pros

  • Allow for sharing across multiple teams.
  • Sync with Sketch to upload screens and prototype.
  • Ability to star most used projects.

Cons

  • The order in which projects are in can be confusing.
  • We can't create custom or different links to prototypes when sharing with external people.
  • Sometimes there are syncing issues.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's great for when you need to share a design vision with a large group of individuals and it makes collaborating virtually a lot easier. It is also good for user testing prototypes in person and virtually. I have not used the InVision freehand feature often but it seems more limited than other platforms like it.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
InVision
7 years of experience

InVision--Collaborative Prototyping Staple

Rating: 4 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InVision on occasion to share mockups and prototypes with clients, as well as to review and provide comments and feedback on design mockups. Our design team often uses it to share wireframes with the rest of the team and include comments about their thought process. We will go back and forth in an internal round of feedback this way before sharing with client. We can easily choose to hide comments before sharing so that our internal discussion is not visible to outside parties.

Pros

  • Prototyping
  • Sharing feedback internally
  • Collaboration for remote teams
  • Client presentations

Cons

  • The product is a bit disjointed, whereas competitor products have a more all-in-one feel
  • More difficult UI than other tools
  • Sharing settings and toolbar are not always intuitive

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is currently the leader in collaborative designing and prototyping, in my opinion. InVision, Sketch, and other tools can get the job done but are lagging behind in terms of ease of use and capabilities. InVision works well for sharing links to mockups with clients without internal conversation and comments being visible.
AH
Andrea Hester
Director Of Operations at Clearfire, Inc. (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
InVision
2 years of experience
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