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What is InVision?
InVision is a Digital Product Design and Development platform used to make customer experiences. The vendor provides design tools and educational resources for teams to navigate every stage of the product design process, from ideation to development. They state that today, more than 7 million people use InVision to create a repeatable and streamlined design workflow; rapidly design and prototype products before writing code, and collaborate across their entire organization. That includes 100 percent of the Fortune 100, and organizations like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Nike, Slack, Starbucks and Uber, who with it, they state are now able to design better products, faster. A free trial is available at invisionapp.com, to test streamlining a digital product workflow.
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InVision is a collaborative design and prototyping platform with features such as freehand drafting mode and interactive mockups, collaboration, idea management, user testing, and integration with Slack and other collaboration tools. According to the vendor, 1 million designers are using the free version.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of InVision are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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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.
Users highly recommend starting with the free version of InVision to thoroughly evaluate the product and its features. They believe it is important to invest time in training for InVision to fully benefit from its functionality. Comparing InVision with other products is also recommended to determine which tool best fits the user's needs. Lastly, if one is looking for a platform that truly showcases their project, users suggest trying another prototyping tool that better suits their requirements and preferences.
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November 04, 2022
great tool for interactive prototypes
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.
- prototyping
- convey styling for developers based on design
- team collaboration
- assets sharing
- design system
- inspect can be improved upon
- integrations with other software like notion
- version control
October 31, 2021
Invision on the fly
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
- Provides quick tools for wireframe drawing
- tools for flow mapping/drawing
- Easy connection with third party applications, via links or direct connections
- 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
April 14, 2021
Rapid Prototyping and Extensive Collaboration
InVision is positioned to be a main tool for wireframes and final designs of the features that we develop. As a product manager, it is key to have an easy to use tool that enables you to communicate with engineering and collaborate with design easily.
- Integration with Sketch serves as a full suite for designers.
- Easy prototyping and actionable wireframing help PMs to create mock ups of the ideas.
- Have sharable URLs and integrations with project management tool that increase speed and reduce misalignment on changes of design.
- It does not support online screen design with tools. It makes a bit hard to create new screens for the ideas.
- Integrations with project management tools do not have direct mechanism for tracking changes.
- Comments may be highlighted a bit more for ease of use.
November 12, 2019
Probably the most popular tool out there. Decent, but plenty of areas for improvement.
Designers at Calendly use InVision to hand off feature designs to developers. User stories that are defined and ready for implementation typically include InVision links. They also use InVision to share early prototypes/sketches with product leadership.
- Simplicity. As a developer, I only use InVision to reference the mocks that the designer/UX person created. InVision lets me easily accomplish that.
- Inspect mode is very useful for developers: instead of just looking at a static image, I can inspect individual elements to see their dimensions and styles like font size and color.
- Sometimes I can't inspect the right element because some other transparent element is blocking it. Invision should handle this better and allow me to ignore certain elements or cycle through different elements at the mouse cursor.
- No support for reusable styles (e.g. color variables).
- No support for building an entire library of reusable components that all designers would then use. This results in frequent discrepancies between what's in the mocks and common styles of UI components (e.g. buttons, dialogs) in the actual product.
- The Jira plugin is slow, allows only 1 attachment per issue, and is cumbersome to use (you need to generate a special share link to embed an Invision mock). So we just put the old-fashioned links in the issue description.
September 07, 2019
Great software for non-technical designers
The web software is mainly used by our Digital Media department, which is part of the larger IT organization. We operate globally and use InVision to make clickable prototypes of our app concepts. It allows us to operate efficiently and create testable prototypes fast, thus saving us a lot of time compared to not having this tool. All in all, we are very positive about having this!
- Clickable prototypes with multiple screens.
- Easy upload, due to the integration with software like Sketch.
- Easy-to-animate prototypes, with highly customizable options.
- Easy to access basic CSS code from graphic elements, making it easy to communicate to developers.
- Better integration between their different products. I don't know how to distinguish them based on the names.
- Better integration with Microsoft Teams (they have Freehand, but that's it). Option to share a prototype directly on teams.
- Options for testing InVision better. Currently, the limit is 1 prototype per free account.
July 20, 2019
InVision: Solid, But Falling Behind
Our design team uses InVision primarily to create sharable prototypes for feedback. We do this by first creating wireframes in Sketch, Balsamiq, or Figma, then importing them into InVision. Then we add clickable “hotspots” to facilitate the drafted portrayal of a complete user journey when each frame is linked together to create a full clickable prototype. We primarily share these designs with internal stakeholders, such as with folks on the Revenue, Content Development, and Software Dev teams, for feedback, but we sometimes elicit external feedback on InVision prototypes. We have other tools for this purpose, but InVision is the one that we have used the longest and used most widely across our team.
- InVision is an easy-to-use tool for quickly putting together and editing prototypes in order to test and iterate upon user workflows.
- InVision's interface is modern and clear, making the user experience very pleasant and straightforward.
- InVision’s commenting and tracking features make it incredibly easy to communicate about specific parts of designs with stakeholders, as well as to follow those conversations. All of the feedback can be captured in one place, which is really helpful in revising designs.
- Designs can be very slow to load on mobile devices, particularly when they include many screens.
- There isn’t an offline version of the full app, which feels less-than-ideal for many of our teammates who live in areas with more spotty internet.
- There are limited functionalities to portray animations and transitions. This hasn’t been a huge issue, but it makes the app feel a little out of date, considering the range of such functionalities in other apps.
July 18, 2019
Invision best prototyping tool out there
Invision is currently being used for various use cases in our team.
Top one being prototype, it helps to share a prototype with potential stakeholders and get feedback.
It also helps in sharing design specs with developers, which reduces to and fro between developers and designers and thus increasing productivity.
- Really good for prototyping.
- Superb collaboration between teams.
- Integration with Sketch is very useful.
- Inspect product is another great resource.
- The craft plugin for Sketch helps in speeding up design process.
- I guess with so many features I think team management needs improvement.
- Notifications and updates are not well executed.
- Pricing, I think bit expensive for starters.
May 21, 2019
Excellent design sharing and feedbacking tool
InVision is my favorite tool for building software prototypes, designs, and sharing them within and across organizations. I can easily and quickly access all my projects, those created by myself as well as those shared by my peers. There is no need for registration, although you might limit access to your projects to invited, registered users only. It is very handy when you are working under NDA agreements. The app is also mobile friendly and will work on most mobile phones and tablets. There are some small cons as well. I would hope to find dynamic transitions between screens (like Balsamiq mockups can do), but this is a graphics/design tool, so you can't really have everything. I would still highly recommend using InVision if you are a designer, UI/UX specialist or project manager/product owner!
- Easily sharing designs and mockups.
- Creating folders and separate projects for easy handling of multiple projects.
- Great interface and ease of use.
- Lack of dynamic transitions between screens (ie. "mocked buttons").
May 18, 2019
Prototyping With InVision
InVision is used by our UX team in order to stitch together prototypes. Often we create mockups and wireframes in Sketch, import them into InVision, add hotspots and scroll zones to the screens, and link the screens together in a clickable prototype that can then be shared with customers externally, or our developers internally.
- InVision is great for putting together prototypes because it's fast and simple.
- InVision is great for giving specs to your developers that they can inspect because it gives them the information they need to build it.
- Large InVision prototypes can often be slow on mobile phones because they have to download so many screens.
- InVision prototypes are pretty limited in terms of functionality.
The UX department uses InVision to share every wireframe and visual comp we create. InVision allows all stakeholders and technologists to review work in progress and conduct reviews of work with a commenting feature. Design and UX use sync connections from Slack and Adobe Photoshop to seamlessly post comps to InVision and quickly sync changes on the fly.
- InVision works well with Sketch for the syncing of comps with a few clicks. This saves a lot of time in having to export JPGs and manually upload to InVision projects.
- InVision's commenting system makes it very easy for stakeholders to comment with markers directly on objects related to their comment. By tagging users in the comment, the users then get an email with a small screen capture of the doc and the commenter's comment. This makes it really simple for discussions to be tracked.
- It's a simple thing, but the ability to use the keyboard arrows to navigate back and forth through page views in InVision is very handy when presenting.
- The technology running InVision doesn't allow you to be signed in and open multiple documents at once. If you're in a project and want to present 2 different pages in the project, opening them in different browser tabs ultimate causes the InVision interface to crash, etc.
- It might have been thought of as a benefit, but I find that the ability to rename a screen once uploaded to InVision is confusing. Creators will have a naming convention for their files, and changing a files name in InVision for display makes it challenging to find the creator's original file by the name they used.
- Sharing a document with others not part of your organization is a clunky experience requiring the creation of a shareable link. There are a few options, and it's not always clear to people how they should generate the share. And then it's not clear to the person being shared with how to interact with InVision.
December 13, 2018
The best but for how long?
We currently use InVision to send interactive prototypes around campus for feedback and approval. We're currently the only department utilizing it but our clients are all over campus. It helps us consolidate our digital creative ideas and allows us to share them with the campus while showing how the page will actually work. Getting this approved on the front end saves countless hours in development.
- Sketch compatibility via plugin
- InVision Studio integration
- Clean interface; very easy for new users to get up to speed
- Hasn't been a lot of new features added lately
- Users have to set up an account
- Looking forward to more innovations concerning developer handoff
May 26, 2018
My vision for InVision
As the UI/UX designer at the company, I work closely with our developers and product managers. In order to provide better prototype which everyone can understand. I decided to use InVison since it was recommended by several other senior designers. I upload all designed interfaces to InVision from Sketch and add notes to help team members understand my design. Developers can find everything they need from InVision.
- You can add unlimited commands and notes for just one interface.
- Seamless integration with Sketch.
- Automatically generate HTML/CSS code for developers.
- Easy to show animation and prototypes without coding.
- Not valuable for complex prototypes.
- Lack of responsive features.
- You have to re-upload the whole interface if you make a minor change to the design.
September 06, 2017
InVision - the right tool for quick and simple prototyping
InVision is used across all of our design teams: marketing, innovation, and product experience, to rapidly prototype functionality for users or to be used as an example of what a specific customer need or solution experience would be. It is very easy to use and ramp up new designers on, unlike other far more complex prototyping tools.
- Standard prototyping using images and hot spots to control interactions.
- The ability to add .gif elements to prototype micro-interactions.
- The ability to organize workflow and review steps across teams.
- The ability to use inspect to communicate with developers instead of creating hundreds of 'red-line' images to explain spacing, etc...
- There is no ability to add dynamic data, from a json or other data file.
- Large prototypes can get somewhat flaky with hot spots not rendering or not functioning.
- There is no ability to add dynamic navigation to user paths.
February 15, 2017
My experience with Invision
InVision is being used by the product team to help build interactive prototyping for certain design flows. We also hope to use it going forward for user testing to get feedback on potential designs. It helps to address problems faced when presenting complex design flows and interactions that otherwise would be difficult to understand with just static pages.
- InVision integrates with a lot of tools like Sketch where you can just drop the file in and have screens to work with.
- InVision has lots of customization so you can set up flows for different devices.
- It's relatively easy to use.
- The hotspot templates are a bit hit or miss - sometimes the spot will be linked across all my pages while other times it will appear in bizarre areas of the page - I tend to have to manually make custom hotspots instead.
- Some of the advanced prototyping features are a bit overwhelming to use, like adding forms, it would be nice to have some tutorials on those.
June 21, 2016
Invision improved collaboration with customers
Invision is used by our design team. Our design team design graphical layout of the website. We share the designs via Invision with our clients. Invision helps sharing the designs and also allow customers to make comments on the designs.
So as of now it is mainly being used by our design team only.
So as of now it is mainly being used by our design team only.
- Invision helps to share the designs with our customers. It's easy to share and discuss with others via Invision.
- Invision allows users to make comments on the designs. Customers make comments as needed.
- Uploading graphics on Invision are very easy. We can easily add new designs to Invision.
- I would like Invision to have features to add wire-frame designs. I use another tool as of n ow for Wire-framing but If Invision can provide controls for wire-framing, it would be great.
- If Invision can also provides a few options to make minor graphic change within Invision app, it would be great as well.
May 12, 2016
Prototyping?? (Nothing is better than InVision)
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I am a freelance web developer on upwork and Freelancer. I use this prototyping tool all the time before starting to code, just to give the exact idea of the website, and what it is going to look like after it’s done. And InVision is a great tool for that, it helps me give the exact prototype I wish to my client which helps me a lot. There is no need to change the codes again if the client does not like their website. I started using this prototyping tool about 1 year ago and it helped me a lot. The biggest and the most annoying problem was, the client was happy with the psd but not very happy with the website. There used to be many changes done after completing the website, and that problem has been reduced by 95% for me, since I started using InVision. I love this tool.
- I love the comment option in InVision. It's an awesome thing for a freelancer developer. I just make the prototype, send it to the client, mostly he loves it. If there is anything he wants me to change, he puts a comment on that particular area on the page. So you have 30 pages, the client puts the comment on changes required area and you change them accordingly. It might seem basic but it's really useful.
- The History Mode is an awesome thing in InVision. It's like git to me, it keeps a track of all the previous changes I made and all the comments which were added. It helps me check if I have fulfilled all the comments and changes asked by the client.
- And Live Share is the best thing - it helps the client get the exact idea of what the website is gonna look like once it is completed.
- It's not free. I mean you can only work on one project with a free account and of course you don't just have one project to work on.
- It takes some time to get a hang of the tool. I mean you really need to understand the tool; it took me like 2-3 hours to understand most of the basic features, but keep experimenting, that's life.
March 18, 2016
Quick and dirty
Invision is used amongst our design team. It offers a quick and easy way to manage our prototypes and to share them with clients. We normally use invision clickthroughs to either show workflows to the development team, or provide to clients when we conduct usability tests. I know of other areas in the organization using invision, but we don't work super closely with other teams at the moment. We also use it to catalogue past projects in a more usable way than a bunch of balsamiq lo-fi's.
- Easy to add files
- Easy to modify files
- Easy to share files
- Intuitive options (hide click hints) etc.
- It would be nice if there were more interactions
- It would be nice if there were otherways to link the data, other software allows you to drag arrows between them.
- It would be nice if there were more ways to organize your prototypes /archive them.
March 12, 2016
Invision Review
We, the design team, use InVision to mock-up website design for user testing and communicating with developers our user flow, visual design, and interaction design. We work with designers and developers all around the world. InVision allows us to share remotely and communicate in different time zones. For example, someone in America could review the designs and couple hours later have someone in Asia working on those adjustments.
- Invision lets me add hotspots to move between screens quickly and build templates. When syncing the top nav bar, I like repeating the template instead of building from scratch.
- Invision communicates comments well - the email notification follow-up allows me to keep track of new updates.
- Invision shows different interactions on desktop such as overlay, hovers, and scrolling features. This helps communicate the design idea best to developers.
- Invision could work better with scalability. We place everything on Invision, once I have about 200 screens up it moves incredibly slow.
- Invision allows for automatic import from Photoshop and Sketch, could we get that for Adobe Illustrator?
- One new idea would allow hotspots to automatically detect the item they are linked to, so if a button gets moved, the hotspot moves with it.
March 11, 2016
Envisioning the Future of App Development with InVision
As designers, we use InVision to quickly and easily share product mockups with other teams and departments within our company. InVision allows us to iterate quickly on designs and get feedback directly within the app. Once our designs are approved and user tested, we share the InVision project with the Engineers and they use it to begin coding the application.
- InVision allows us to sync the Sketch files we're working on locally so that when we make changes the InVision prototype is automatically updated. The saves us time by not having to export every individual screen any time we want to update the prototype.
- The ability for us to create clickable prototypes is essential. InVision has a great build mode that is incredibly easy to use and allows us to add navigation and transitions quickly to our application prototypes.
- InVision's comment mode is also key to how we work. By allowing stakeholders to comment on specific areas of the design we can quickly make changes and ensure that we are building the best product for our customers.
- It would nice to be able to compare different versions of our prototype screens. There is a history feature already in InVision where we can see older versions of a screen, but it would be nice to be able to view multiple screens side by side for comparisons.
- I'm having a hard time coming up with anything else. InVision does what we need it do. It does a lot more too, we just have had a need to utilize its full functionality at this point.