Proto.io is a great tool for your wireframing and prototyping needs
Proto.io is used to make quick and interactable prototypes for our products, sites, social media, and game interfaces, and menu flows. It …
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What is Proto.io?
Proto.io is a prototyping tool for creating interactive mobile apps.
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Proto.io is a prototyping tool for creating interactive mobile apps.
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Proto.io is a prototyping tool for creating interactive mobile apps.
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Proto.io is a prototyping tool for creating interactive mobile apps.
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The most common users of Proto.io are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Proto.io is used to make quick and interactable prototypes for our products, sites, social media, and game interfaces, and menu flows. It helps us do some great prototypes that can be actively used and tested without a lot of effort, so we can check some possibilities and gather information before building the final solution.
- Easy to use
- Great interface
- Integrated icons and easy management of images
- The performance sometimes gets a little slow
- Some prototyping workflows are complicated
- The buttons and actions can be difficult to learn
- Proto.io has a positive impact because we used the free version.
- Proto.io has a positive effect because we use it to make prototypes that save us time.
- Proto.io has a positive impact because it is a collaborative tool.
Proto.io can be more complicated than some of those tools because it gives us a lot of features in the same product. Some of those tools are better for wireframing. Still, for prototyping, my choice is Proto.io because its prototyping workflow, even if it can be a little complex to get to know, is well integrated with the composition of your screens and the base wireframing tools.
We have used Proto.io as a workflow prototyping tool to illustrate interactions and steps as part of enterprise business application development. We use it in our practice. Specifically, I'm not sure if other design practices in our company handle it. (1 location of out of many locations of our business; each practice is free to use the tools it deems best for its work).
- workflow process steps
- simple interactions
- complex transition animations
- robust interactions
- Allows for fast demonstration of workflows to stakeholders.
- Is not an expensive tool, so minimal risk in experimenting with it.
In the end, we decided not to continue using Proto.io and instead use tools we were already using.
- For just presenting workflows to stakeholders, InVision worked almost as well (not as robust in interactions, but when you want to focus on the steps, that's better anyway).
- For micro-interactions and transition animations - tools like AdobeXD and FramerX, and even Figma and some plugins for Sketch are better.
December 06, 2018
Proto.io makes wireframe design fun, simple, and enjoyable!
Proto.io is used mostly in our development group though has been used across the whole organization at points. It is currently being used to develop mobile wireframes and UI mockups for product development. Proto.io helps us to build usable UI's and relevant mobile screens while also allowing us to see potential issues with both.
- Proto.io is very interactive and fluid. It allows you to design an entire app, including interface between screens.
- It has a very robust library of relevant mobile components.
- The support and help materials for Proto.io make it easy to use this product on your own.
- There is a bit of a learning curve and is suited for someone with a development background.
- Sharing across the organization, if not done properly, isn't the easiest.
- Proto.io is being used by the entire development group on a fairly regular basis and eliminates the need for paper design.
- Proto.io's interactive interface and design has helped us to identify UI issues before the actual development stage.
- Proto.io does not really offer organization charts or workflows and is specific for wireframes and mock ups.
Proto.io is definitely the premier mockup and wireframe application. Lucidchart shares some of the capability but can be a bit clunky. Proto.io is interactive and smooth and helps you to see exactly how your UI will look and behave before the development stage. Additionally, it's library of native components is robust.
November 16, 2018
Can't find a better prototyping software
I use Proto.io to build prototypes for the software that our company develops (both via the web and mobile apps). We don't have a de facto UX design or research team per say, but Proto.io allows me to build very intricate and interactive prototypes that I can show the developers. It's a great tool that makes it easy to bring ideas to life.
- Proto.io has more features than pretty much every other prototyping software I looked at. Many other vendors excel in one area, but Proto.io does it all it seems. There are so many different ways to build live and interactive prototypes.
- You can easily build and manage multiple projects. Proto has several templates to start with in terms of screen sizes, from computer monitors down to the different iPhone screens, as well as Android devices.
- It's really easy to share prototypes with other members in the company, and they don't even have to be users in Proto. The previewing option is great as well, but Proto makes it even more simple by allowing you to just copy and paste a link to share with others.
- To this point, I really have no complaints with Proto.io. The software itself is feature-rich, so the learning curve is probably steeper than it would be with some other products. That being said it's totally worth it because Proto.io can do everything I need it to do.
- Proto.io has helped us to become more strategic about how we design our software, both in terms of styling and functionality. Being able to create prototypes opens a lot of doors for us to show the dev team how we want the software to behave.
Proto.io is web-based for one, which is a plus - Adobe XD is a desktop application. Adobe XD has some great features, especially for a free product, but from what I experienced Proto.io had way more tools and customization for creating interactive prototypes. Adobe XD is good for building prototypes that go from screen to screen, but Proto.io allows you to get much more detailed with that (every element on the screen can have an interaction).
March 08, 2016
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Used it to mock up prototypes of an app that was in the process of being developed. It was very user friendly and easy to use. No coding skills necessary, also easy for coders and developers to use as well
- Easy to implement buttons
- Easy to go from page to page
- All around good user experience
- Would be nice if developers could take the code directly from the program
- Sometime it was hard to click and drag different assets
- Mine crashed one time and I lost a days worth of work
- It helped us rebrand a company to have a better strategy for the target audience
- It helped a small company new to UX and UI understand it a little more
- It was easy to teach new people minimizing on boarding time
not enough experience to assess