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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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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.
March 13, 2020
Invision helps your design team get faster
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.
November 20, 2019
InVision: Increase your team's effectiveness and efficiency
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.
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.
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.
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.
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").
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.