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What is InVision?

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…

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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 …
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Invision on the fly

7 out of 10
October 31, 2021
Incentivized
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 …
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Headed for Extinction

3 out of 10
July 19, 2021
Incentivized
InVision is used by our product, design, and engineering teams. It is also used by key stakeholders. InVision provides basic prototyping, …
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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
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Product Demos

InVision Studio Demo + Drinks: Berlin

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InVision Studio Demo + Drinks: Boston

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inVision DVA & GST Demo

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Invision and Live - Amiga CG Demo from a long time ago

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Invision Studios 2020 Demo Reel

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Product Details

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.

InVision Screenshots

Screenshot of Take designs from ideas to development in one unified platformScreenshot of Collaborate in real time on an endless digital whiteboard. Start fast with a blank canvas or pre-built templates.Screenshot of Create rich, interactive prototypes. Import from Sketch, then gather feedback from any device.Screenshot of Involve your developers early and often. Collect input and provide detailed specs to keep builds on track.

InVision Video

Do you have a project that you need to prototype or wireframe? In this video, TrustRadius will compare InVision vs Figma and determine which is better for your project. We'll discuss the features of each tool, as well as user reviews to help you decide which is best for you.

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InVision Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Miro, Figma, and Sketch are common alternatives for InVision.

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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Reviews and Ratings

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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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Features to enable clickable prototypes
  • Organization of wireframes to map out user flows
  • Easily shareable assets
  • 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.
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
  • Craft plugin to Sketch allows for streamlined updates from design files.
  • Easy to share prototypes.
  • Design system manager
  • 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).
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • InVision makes building user flows extremely easy.
  • InVision makes iterating wireframes even faster.
  • InVision makes reacting to different variations of designs simple.
  • 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.
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.
October 31, 2021

Invision on the fly

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
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
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Archival design artifacts
  • Low-friction access
  • Clarity in user access/billing
  • Branching/versioning
  • Prototyping
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Allow for sharing across multiple teams.
  • Sync with Sketch to upload screens and prototype.
  • Ability to star most used projects.
  • 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.
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.
Andrea Hester | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Prototyping
  • Sharing feedback internally
  • Collaboration for remote teams
  • Client presentations
  • 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
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Rapid prototyping and user testing for ideas are so easy things with InVision. You may speed up discovery process with the prototyping while use the same tool for finalized designs an design specs to guide engineering team. It enables team to scale asynchronous communication through instant collaboration on the designs and prototypes.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InVision is used to design websites and other digital marketing materials by the graphic design team.
It simplifies the upload process for clients to review and for developers to pull chunks of code from for the development phases.
  • Upload to other 3rd party platforms such as Zeplin.
  • Easy to use design interface.
  • Lots of 3rd party plugins to simplify you life, Unsplash for stock photos for example.
  • Limited in platforms it can upload to.
  • 3rd party plugins don't often get updated and then break/don't function.
  • Slow to develop some features, example animation for showing user experiences.
  • Can be glitchy/buggy and updates sometimes makes things worse.
When two designers are working on the same project InVision is less suited than other design programs.
When there are heavy illustration elements needed InVision is less suited than other design programs.
For simpler design projects InVision is great.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to wireframe and to demo already built prototypes
  • Framing
  • Uses the link share to present
  • Uses craft plugin to transfer prototype from Sketch
  • It is not as robust as Figma, you can’t animate use certain settings.
  • Ability to explore to other tools
  • Animation improvements
I think it’s easy to learn and onboard I’d recommend it for users new to design tools
Charles Fashana, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use InVision to house so much of our creative process and assets. This is done at various steps throughout the internal creative process. We use the freehand function for ideation and sketching out plans and then the boards and prototypes are used to house more work in process and finished products. We also use it to manage work internal as well as sharing with our clients. Finally, it also serves as a repository for all final, approved assets across a number of different clients and projects.
  • Simple and intuitive interface, very easy to use and share.
  • Great for collaboration with multiple users and stakeholders.
  • A very professional and manageable way to house multiple assets, across clients and projects.
  • Housing video files doesn't allow for easy preview or playing.
  • Navigating around a large freehand board can be cumbersome and difficult to find your way to specific areas of interest without some nuancing.
All in all it is a really good tool for creatives and marketers. It can be used to get in the weeds and do all of the work that needs to get done across all phases of the work, but also to share the work and solicit feedback across internal and external teams.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InVision is a key piece of software for our marketing agency and is used for any visual work we produce. We use InVision to present creative to clients that includes websites, marketing collateral, digital advertising. It's an essential tool for any service offering where creative needs to be shown to the team and clients for approval. We also use InVision to house brand assets like logos, colors, fonts, etc.
  • Easy to Use
  • Commenting within Creative
  • Clean user interface
  • Good resources
  • Notifications
InVision is a great tool for marketing agencies that need a robust tool that is easier for the team and client to use. It's great for showing work, especially for complex projects like building websites. It uses boards to keep work organized across multiple projects and clients. It's an incredibly helpful tools for teams that work collaboratively on projects.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InVision has been a great tool for our company. It has allowed our UI/UX team to quickly translate designs for concepts to usable prototypes. Being able to build clickable designs that envision user experiences has helped us create beautiful interfaces for our users while easily collaborating within our team to collect feedback and improve upon every iteration of the created designs.
  • Allows seamless collaboration within a team on design.
  • Helps us build clickable prototypes of our designs.
  • Makes envisioning user experiences simple and uncomplicated.
  • The web application is quite heavy and tends to lag from time to time.
  • Same with the mobile app. It's not the quickest and easiest experience.
  • Navigating through several designs can be difficult and confusing at times.
InVision is great if you have a relatively small design team. It can get quite expensive with larger teams as there is a monthly plan with a limit on team members. However, the tool is definitely worth it. In addition to this, InVision has a great design blog that provides helpful tips to teams with any kind of expertise.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InVision is used as a quick prototyping tool to demonstrate the user experience design to the development teams and help them understand. We usually create the InVision prototypes to also use as a part of usability testing with users on new features for the software. This helps us get early feedback on the design and correct them before spending too many resources on developing bad products. In terms of business value, it saves us a lot of money to use InVision over developing the entire application, then realizing that the design was not the most optimal. Its very simple interface allows anyone to use it with minimal learning.
  • Simple and to the point UI is easy to use.
  • Ability to use anywhere; mobile, web, apps etc.
  • Basic animation features could use some improvement to support advanced users.
  • Only one project allowed per account on the free tier.
Useful to demonstrate the flows and how the user interacts with an interface. Quickly design either wireframes or high fidelity designs and import them into InVision and share with others. It helps the entire team play with it and feel the experience rather than listening to a designer narrating the experience.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InVision is being used by my organization as a prototype platform. Designers use it to create prototypes that can be utilized for client review and approval. These prototypes are also used for demos and user experience feedback.

InVision prototypes allow for quick creation of very impressive, rich, and editable prototypes that increase agile development and project efficiency. This in turn, allows my team to iterate quickly, elevate quality, and ship fast.
  • Clickable prototype.
  • Facilitate reviews and consolidate feedback.
  • Test user feedback.
  • It could be easier to generate feedback reports.
InVision is well suited for creating clickable prototypes. It is very easy to wire up and add complexity to the prototype. These prototypes can be used for review and approvals, user experience testing and validation designs.

InVision allows you to collaborate, experiment, and test much more effectively and efficiently. When updates need to be made, it is quick and seamless.
Dmitry Pashkevich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
InVision seems to be an industry standard and works reasonably well. It's at least worth evaluating during your research for that reason. I haven't searched the landscape, but there are plenty of ways the interaction between designers and developers can be improved, and InVision doesn't seem to be taking advantage of them. I'd love to see if there's a better tool out there.
Wilbert Kramer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
One of the best tools around for prototyping for non-technical users. Designers love InVision, especially those who design for screens. A responsive (web) app or website can be easily demoed by a graphic designer in InVision. It makes it possible to gather feedback quickly from managers and improve on that after that.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our creative team is using InVision as a prototyping tool to demonstrate website design concepts and layout to clients for web development projects. We can simulate some of the interactivity with the designs, as well as easily share the create with clients over a link. It is also helpful to capture important notes from the design/UX team for the development team. Prior to InVision, we shared PDFs with clients which were flat, and didn't always load properly. InVision is helping us better showcase our conceptual designs and give clients a feel for what to expect with their new website.
  • Showcase web design page layouts in an efficient way.
  • Simulate hover states, click states, drop down menus, and other interactive elements.
  • Easily capture design feedback from clients.
  • I wish it had even more ability to simulate interactivity. What is there is nice, but still doesn't faithfully prototype the website.
  • It can be a bit cumbersome to set up connected pages and interactive states.
  • Pushy sales team that is always trying to get you to upgrade your plan even when you don't want/need to.
If you need a helpful way to share web designs with clients, as well as internal stakeholders and are looking to capture feedback, InVision is a great tool for that. It also has more advanced features to go deeper with animations as well. The platform can definitely scale as your needs change and you don't have to use all of the features to get your value from the expense.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
InVision is well-suited for many design scenarios where someone needs to portray a realistic user workflow through a clickable prototype using a solid, reliable, web-based platform. It’s an excellent tool to use for collaboration with stakeholders, as it includes commenting and tagging features that enable targeted conversations to occur. It is less useful in situations where it is necessary to include many types of animations and transitions in the prototype (limited functionality here), when there is a limited budget (it is rather pricey), and when you want to use one tool for creating mockups and prototypes (you must upload your own designs to the app from another app, then prototype).
Prashant Mahajan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
It is very well suited for design sharing, prototyping, feedback collection, design spec sharing.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InVision is used across the whole organization for UX purposes. All the prototypes for online apps, mobile apps etc are all first created in Sketch and then exported to InVision. It is a great collaboration tool, where our clients, developers and us - designers can mark out thoughts at any point of the project and respond and share their opinions. I love that I can hand off the prototype to developers and they can go into inspect mode and get a greta level of detail: pixel, percent dimensions, colors, font, sizes etc.
  • 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.
  • InVision's biggest problem for me right now is that if the change I make in Sketch is minor - it does not get picked up when I update my prototype in InVision. So I have to add large bright noticeable objects - then update the prototype then remove those objects and update the prototype again. It is a very time-consuming work around.
InVision freehand is a great tool for brainstorming. It is great for collaboration in general. For example: I give permission to a number of people to access the prototype - they can then access it when it is convenient for them. When they make a comment - I get notified so nothings gets missed.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use InVision to design and share our initial design for the application so that we get a sketch which is very close to the final version. It helps to get feedback without coding.
  • Simple interface and easy to work with.
  • Easy to collaborate
  • Versioning is a key feature.
  • Drag and drop feature speeds up things.
  • No responsive design output.
  • Initial loading should be better, it's slow.
  • Nothing much.
Fast prototyping, easy to share and collaborate so that we eliminate big changes when we move into the development stage. Since the design can be made clickable we can show a process flow.
Wojciech Szafalowicz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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").
Useful for creating a design and sharing them with peers, creating several different projects with sets of designs, and quickly accessing your projects archive. Less useful for showing the functionality of several screens with heavy connection and particular actions needed to transition from one to another.
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