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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
November 02, 2022
Great for sharing and collaborating across teams
ALLOWS US TO VIEW CLICKACBLE WEBSITE DESIGN MOCKUPS
- clickable designs
- interactive designs
- mockups
- better design kit
- easier to use downlod for offline use
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.
April 06, 2022
Great for DSM and simple prototyping
Score 7 out of 10
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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.
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
July 19, 2021
Headed for Extinction
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
April 14, 2021
InVision, platform that once WOWed is now ehh
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.
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.
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
April 08, 2020
InVision: Create beautiful designs for great products
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.
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 10, 2019
Great collaboration, interactive prototyping tool
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.
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").
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!
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.
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.
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.
May 12, 2016
Prototyping?? (Nothing is better than InVision)
Score 10 out of 10
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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.