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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.
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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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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.
February 04, 2019
Invision saves us a lot of time and hassle implementing designs!
We use InVision as a clickable prototyping software for helping developers understand the flow and implementation of designs from our designer. It helps bridge the gap in communication between designers and developers and free up both of their time to focus on what they're good at instead of constantly going back and forth on small details of how to implement the designs.
- The ability to leave comments on specific parts of the screen to add details or feedback for the developers. This removes the pain of trying to explain which screen/part of the screen you're referring to.
- InVision makes it extremely easy to create a clickable prototype and test the flow of your software.
- The design and user experience of InVision makes it very pleasant and extremely easy to use.
- InVision doesn't integrate with Illustrator to automatically upload new updates to designs. You have to go back in and re-upload the file which means also changing the flow of the clickable hot spots. But it does have that capability for Sketch and Photoshop.
- Because it's integrating with other platforms, it isn't as seamless of an experience as Adobe XD is at building and may be difficult to compete with Adobe over the long term because they have such a stronghold in the creative space.
- Other than that it has worked very well for us!
January 18, 2019
InVision is the ideal mockup/prototype/wireframe and feedback tool to streamline your design process.
InVision is being used in our website design process to view prototypes and wireframes. It's an excellent tool to really give an indepth feel that allows for excellent feedback and a much better streamlined process in our projects. A streamlined process means less workload, and the clients absolutely love being able to see the prototypes and wireframes with interactions which really brings it to life for them and makes the design portion of our projects ten times better.
- Excellent use for working with teams, especially long distance teams.
- Access levels allowing you to emulate how a website would behave.
- Mood boards, I love this feature as a designer.
- Clickable interactive prototypes really gives the client a much better feel for how it will work.
- Can be a bit slow, especially when upload PSD files...but I wonder how much of that is due to internet speed...
- A bit of a learning curve when first learning to use it...would like to see a bit more simplified interface to make it more intuitive.
- You can't switch from screen to screen in the prototype mode, this really should be a priority feature.
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
December 03, 2018
InVision is solid!
We use it to share new web development, design and prototyping.
- InVision is a solid platform.
- I was introduced to it by some of my European web developers, and quickly fell in love with it.
- It also has a great mobile app, and the entire app is quite user friendly. Definitely recommend it.
- I think its solid! Not sure how else they could improve!
December 02, 2018
An InVision review from an entry-level Designer
I use InVision for prototyping and getting feedback for my designs from clients and team members. I've used InVision to import my sketches for demoing a paper prototype all the way to a full-scale visual design. InVision also integrates easily with Sketch via the Craft app, which is a definite download if you have Sketch. The InVision Craft app allows you to take your artboards from Sketch and import and update them easily to your project in InVision. Every designer who regularly prototypes should learn InVision, as it has become an industry standard as well - it is well worth the cost.
- Great for collaboration, I love the commenting and live share feature - it helps you keep transparency with the client.
- Simplicity and ease-of-use, it's very easy to pick up and get started.
- Quick workflows allow you to jump from one screen to the next very intuitively without having to go back to your project page.
- Cannot perform advanced interactions, only simple drops, and swipes.
- Hotspots can get a bit confusing to manage if you've created them in the Craft app within Sketch then imported them into your InVision project
- Sometimes your design can feel like a clickable slideshow due to the lack of interactions
November 05, 2018
InVision - prototype, communicate, prototype, communicate, develop
We are a small team but we work in different locations and different times. Invision is the place where our designer uploads his assets. He also uses it demonstrate screen transitions. We then have a back and forth communication on the UI and UX to see that it meets our business goals which are usually aimed at making the end user happy.
- The "Inspect" feature is terrific. The designer doesn't need to come up with css mapping guide. It's automatic!
- Commenting on top of the assets is super easy and looks good.
- Working on prototypes saves a lot of development time.
- You need to upload complete assets as a page. You can't drag and drop elements to create screens.
- InVision is focused on designers. That's good, but some focus on non designers (developers, product) would be nice.
August 01, 2018
InVision
I use InVision for all of our UX works. It is used predominantly by our digital team. It helps to develop high fidelity prototypes using hotspots and collaborates with the cross-functional team effectively. InVision provides the advantage of sharing the URL with the ability to access the prototypes in various devices like mobiles, tablets, and laptops.
- Drag and drop upload files and file management.
- Hotspots, Boards, freehand.
- Collaboration
- Fixed left panel - InVision supports fixed headers and footers.
- Everything is image based -to support another state like hover changes we need to upload another image.
- Hover functionality for overlay should also support None like fade in, instant.
May 30, 2018
InVision Review
We utilize InVision for prototyping new designs for presentations and usability testing within several departments.
- Easy file upload
- Intuitive interactions
- Easy to give and receive feedback
- Mobile and tablet prototyping
- Hover states
- It would be great if InVision offered an in-app ability to record usability tests
My digital agency's design team uses Invision to present designs to clients. The development team occasionally uses "Invision Inspect" to build templates. In the past, we presented designs to clients in one of two ways:
Using Invision allows us to have more control over the client's viewing experience. It allows us to present our digital designs on a digital medium.
- A physical print out
- A PDF sent over email
Using Invision allows us to have more control over the client's viewing experience. It allows us to present our digital designs on a digital medium.
- Comments: Invision allows your clients to make comments on a design template. Gone are the days of trying to decipher a client's red-sharpie markup on a printed design. Invision comments are neat and organized, and closely tied to on-page elements. Read comments individually or answer several at once in the "comments" pane. Clients receive responses to their comments via email.
- Invision Inspect: Invision Inspect is amazing. If you are synching designs to Invision using the Craft or Sketch integrations (which I recommend), all of the CSS and HTML code will be auto-generated by Invision Inspect. Developers can use the Inspect pane to accelerate development
- Hotspots: With invision, you can create "hotspots" on your design, allowing you to create a very realistic-feeling experience for your clients. Select a button as a hotspot to link it to another page of your design. You can also assign hot spots to anchor link to another position on the existing page. The end result is immersive and allows the client to better understand the relationship between pages of your design. It offers functionality to an otherwise static thing.
- Mobile: Invision displays mobile mocks inside of a mobile phone template. This adds to the realism and creates a more professional, polished look. You can also lock the header nav or footer on mobile devices to simulate "sticky" elements, which again, really adds a realistic quality.
- Integrations: Automatically synch your designs directly from Sketch to Invision using the Craft plugin. This is fantastic because it allows your clients to view changes, practically in real-time, without requiring you to login to multiple platforms to make updates
- Drains resources: Invision is HEAVY. I can't pull up more than one Invision tab on my laptop or else it will start to crawl. It drains my computer's resources.
- Ordering screens: While the auto-synch from Craft and/or Sketch is amazing, it's not as good as it could be. I am working on a 200+ screen project with a client. Every time my designer synchs using the Craft plugin, I need to search through Invision to see where it dropped the new or updated screens. It is seemingly random, and very hard to keep track of. I need to audit the organization of screens weekly to make sure everything is where it should be. This is extremely hard to do on a small laptop with a touchpad, since it relies on a drag-and-drop interface, but it's no problem with a mouse.
- Email overload: The default notification settings will send you an email each time someone leaves a comment on a mock. This is a nightmare for my zen at work - be sure to change the setting to receive a daily or weekly digest instead
- Responsiveness: Invision hasn't really cracked the secret of displaying responsive designs through a static medium. We typically create desktop and mobile mocks for our website projects. You can't load mocks with different canvas sizes to the same project - they must be uploaded to two separate projects. This is a pain to manage. Ideally, I'd love to be able to resize my screen and show my client how the design "jumps" from desktop to mobile at a particular breakpoint. This is not possible.
- Intuitiveness: There are some parts of Invision that are incredibly intuitive, and some that aren't. Maybe this is just me, but it took me a year to realizze you could shift+click to select multiple screens for the purposes of re-ordering. There are a few things like that that just didn't feel "natural" to me.
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.
April 02, 2018
InVision - a game-changer for distributed teams
At CareerBuilder, we use Invision to build and share prototypes between the UX department and dev and product. Within Invision, stakeholders are able to make comments and track how work is progressing. The new freehand tool allows us to do real-time "whiteboard" sketching as well. This has increased our ability to work as a distributed team across several physical locations.
- Ease of prototype building. It is great to be able to quickly show stakeholders how a series of screens function together rather than relying solely on flat images.
- Shared links and comments. Invision allows team members and stakeholders to collaborate no matter the location or time zone.
- Freehand sketching is a powerful tool that allows real-time collaboration across multiple locations.
- Invision is great for linear prototyping. When it comes to more complicated needs, Invision becomes less valuable.
- Invision's pricing model can become expensive quickly - beware of having too many reviewers.
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.
June 19, 2017
Prototyping Made Easy
Everyone on my team (of UI designers) used InVision to create high-fidelity working prototypes, as well as many of those who are working in the UX department. It's the easiest and best way we have found to present to our clients how their finished product or products will look once going live. It also solves the problem of making edits when you are working with remote employees. Since InVision has the ability to leave comments, we know longer have to sift through emails about different changes to make, everything is done smoothly and in once place.
- Version control is very simple to use and well laid out, and you don't need multiple files.
- You can show your clients how their product will look on a variety of different devices, such as mobile.
- Besides just moving between pages, there are options for things like a fixed navbar and linking to hotspots within the current page.
- You can automatically upload screens from both Photoshop and Sketch.
- There could be a few more options for interactions, such as image carousels, link/image hovering, and page transitions.
- It would be nice to be able to upload from Illustrator, or other Adobe software.
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 12, 2016
My vision for Invision
Invision was used among myself and my classmates at General Assembly's UX design immersive course. The only problems I have had with it is that you don't have the option to create carousels, and add on/off interactions (tapping something, it changing color, and then tapping it again to go back to the original color). Otherwise, for simple prototypes, it is a really good tool to use. I use InVision and Proto.io- I don't like using Proto.io but it does have more features that make a prototype more realistic, like the carousel option. If InVision had that, I would definitely choose InVision over Proto.io.
- Prototyping
- Missing on/off interactions
- Missing carousel options
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.
March 09, 2016
Review of InVisionApp by UX Designer
We (UX Design department (7 people)) @ Penton http://www.penton.com/ use invision to present our work to various brands under the Penton umbrella.
It allows us to work with remote teams around the world. It allows us to present clickable prototypes. It helps work through user flow and interactions.
It allows us to work with remote teams around the world. It allows us to present clickable prototypes. It helps work through user flow and interactions.
- Allowing to build an interactive (clickable prototype) is an extremely valuable resource when building a digital product. We can fine tune all interactions and behaviors prior to going into development process. Invision prototype is also valuable while explaining behaviors to the development team.
- Commenting is also useful if a product team desires to leave feedback. Comments are all in a centralized place and not scattered among many emails.
- One thing that I have struggled with is making an element react to both roll over and click. I have to select two areas over and near an element to highlight both actions. If invision team can find a solution for that, it would be valuable
- A bit more animations for transitions between pages could be helpful. Slow fade for example.
- It would be nice if invision could accommodate presentations for responsive websites. At the moment you select the device for your comps and build a presentation for specific device. If you are presenting a responsive website you need to jump between projects and it is not always convenient.