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UXPin has become an essential tool for designers and teams looking to streamline the wireframing and prototyping process. Users have found …
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What is UXPin?
UXPin is a UX design platform with wireframing, prototyping and interactive mockup features.
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In this UXPin tutorial, you will learn how to use UXPin Data. See how to populate an element with data from JSON, CSV or Google Sheets with just one click. UXPin also features a bunch of diverse sample data like avatars, names, addresses and much more. On top of that, our inte...
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UXPin has become an essential tool for designers and teams looking to streamline the wireframing and prototyping process. Users have found that UXPin allows them to create website and app wireframes, as well as development specification documents, all in one platform. The ability to share working wireframes with clients has been particularly valuable, as clients can click through proposed app screens and website pages, gaining a better understanding of the design concepts. This has facilitated collaboration and feedback on UX proposals, promoting transparency and demonstrating the effectiveness of proposed approaches.
With UXPin's intuitive interface and robust tools, designers are able to quickly create layouts that can be easily adjusted based on client feedback. The tool's smart elements have been praised for speeding up the workflow and enabling the creation of interactive designs. Additionally, the documentation section of UXPin serves as a valuable asset for teams, allowing them to clarify details not immediately evident in the wireframes. This feature ensures that everyone is on the same page and helps prevent any potential misunderstandings or missed elements. Overall, UXPin has provided designers with a powerful solution for wireframing and prototyping, enhancing collaboration among team members and ultimately reducing costs and saving time in the design process.
Documentation and Context: Users have found the ability to add documentation to projects helpful for further defining functionality and flow. This feature enhances the overall understanding of project requirements for multiple reviewers.
Visual Design Capabilities: Reviewers appreciate the option to add images and other files to projects, allowing for visually appealing blueprints that can be easily shared with clients. This feature enables users to create engaging prototypes that help clients visualize the final product.
Collaboration and Communication: Users love the convenience of sharing project previews with clients, making it easy for them to understand the functionality and flow of their products. This capability streamlines communication processes and keeps clients up-to-date with project progress.
Limited Undo Functionality: Some users have expressed frustration with the undo functionality in UXPin, noting that it only allows for a single undo and can sometimes lead to unintended changes that are difficult to revert.
Slow Performance: Several reviewers have mentioned that they found the software to be slow, including the mockups and editor, which negatively impacts their overall user experience.
Lack of Live Customer Support: Many users have voiced disappointment with the lack of live customer support or chat option in UXPin, finding it frustrating to rely solely on email support for assistance.
Based on user reviews, here are the three most common recommendations for UXPin:
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Try out the free trial: Many users recommend giving UXPin a try by taking advantage of their free trial. This allows users to explore the features and capabilities of the tool before making a commitment.
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Use it for wireframing and prototyping: UXPin is frequently recommended for its power and ease of use in wireframing and prototyping. Users find it helpful for designing UI/UX interfaces, creating high-fidelity prototypes, and collaborating with team members.
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Explore other options: Some users suggest investigating other more intuitive products first before opting for UXPin. While they acknowledge its strengths in online collaboration and browser-based prototyping, they advise considering alternative tools like Marvel or Pixate if ease-of-use is a priority.
It is important to note that while UXPin receives positive recommendations overall, some users mention quirks and room for improvement, such as challenges with constant iteration and performance issues with large numbers of elements.
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Score 2 out of 10
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We use it to build mockups for mobile experiences to present to our clients. The mockups are interactive and can be shared to our clients including a phone frame. That is pretty neat. The tool itself is very slow and hard to work with. It is not intuitive and at first it seems like a good tool, but after you find the many limitations, it just doesn't work.
- Getting a subscription
- Sharing projects and mockups
- Implementing a simple mockup
- You have to call to cancel your subscription
- Platform is very slow, mockups are slow, editor is slow.
- Customer service is a joke
- Lots of e-mail spam
- Sharing mockups
- Building mockups
- Exporting png's for presentations
- Too expensive; every contributor is a full account, viewer or editor
- Making designs is very slow and expensive because lack of components
- ROI is bad overall
Adobe XD is so much more than UXPin, with Adobe Cloud you can easily share designs as well. We used Adobe XD before changing to UXPin. At first UXPin seems so advanced and helpful, but don't get fooled. You're heavily limited in the long run, and after all the training and implementation of UXPin (both app-wise for IT but also training designers etc) it is not worth your time.
August 03, 2020
UXPin is the best design tool
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
I brought UXPin into with me when I joined Fidelity Investments’ Innovation Lab as a Director of UX and Start-up Design Lead. This tool was used to produce hi-fidelity functional prototypes from concept to test to development to maintain design consistency for development. A side benefit allowed for a deeper understanding and working working process for both the front and back end development teams along with the UX and design teams who were a mix of co-located and distributed people. Our engineers could lean in and help designers with expression logic to help make concepts better with personalized experiences.
This tool offers something that most don’t. The interactions are real—not simulated—and previews of your work are presented HTML code, not converted to images. It’s a design tool that is technical enough for technologists to lean into, but powerfully enough that you don’t need it to produce the best prototypes engineers really got into it and created a lot of cross-team collaboration.
- Collaboration with teammates.
- Rapid prototyping.
- Design Systems.
- JSON File for content importing.
- Bulk editing via library components.
- Interactions, and micro UX.
- Sharing and requesting feedback.
- Version branching.
- Spec mode for developers (access to assets).
- Automatically produced visual style guide with fonts, colors, and imported assets.
- Imports from sketch while keeping the shapes, colors, and fonts fully editable.
- Boolean Pen (bezzier pen) for vector drawing, and pathfinder.
- Annotation capability via documentation mode.
- Password protect prototypes.
- Upload custom fonts (enterprise, or Pro version is key imho).
- 1,000s of built in icons (iOS, Android, Font Awesome etc).
- Prebuilt design component libraries (Material Design, Booptstrap, iOS).
- Video tutorials in-app.
- Moderate learning curve - UI is familiar, and customizable.
- Copy/paste interactions, and element properties.
- Canvas properties (grids, adaptive screen sizes, scrolling).
- Asynchronous Spell check.
- UXPin's customer support is top tier.
- No search and replace for fonts (missing or just to replace).
- Tool is built for design/dev teams but does not integrate content teams in well.
- If you are not careful you can get lost in designing interactions when you should be just creating building blocks - don’t over animate!!!
- There is currently no “scrub” or click-drag interaction which limits touch capability testing/concepts.
- Editing adaptive versions of designs is very time consuming, edits to not ripple through from master viewport size. All updates are manual, even when creating an adaptive version.
- When a library item is updated, it can revert changes you have made unknowingly.
- Video integration is limited to online video host aggregators such as IMGR, YouTube, and Vimeo.
- Not a ton of info for a designer on how to use the expressions effectively.
- Prototypes with a lot of interactions can get slow, especially on computers with a lot of security software. It’s best to work with UXPin to figure out what is blocking APIs, and JS.
- Quicker team alignment - a prototype is worth 1,000 meetings.
- Quicker results from testing - fail faster.
- More accurate development output.
- Builds understanding of what is needed amongst team success (what designers need vs what developers need).
The first thing I’ll say is the learning curve is way lighter on UXPin. Also UXPin updates their app, and performance routinely and adds new features based on community needs.
It’s the first web-based tool that outputs code rendered in the browser from a design created in a very familiar workspace. You can add logic to interactions and CSS to any of out of the box shapes or page elements.
I ended up choosing UXPin because you can create interactive components rather than having to have a screen to screen based interaction. This means no more creating multiple versions of a screen to show variations, i.e. dropdown selections.
With tools like Figma, and InVision - which are both great tools - you have to create a screen to account for every instance you want to account for and becomes very laborious in my professional opinion.
September 30, 2019
UXPin for Better UX
We use UXPin for multiple things including website wireframes, app wireframes, development specification documents for apps, etc. Several people in our organization use UXPin from our writer that heads up creating new sitemaps to our designers that use it to map out the flow of websites. We have found that our clients are more visual and have a hard time understanding how their websites and apps will flow. UXPin addresses that issue.
With UXPin, we're able to share working wireframes to allow our clients the ability to click through their proposed app screens and website pages. It also helps our development teams determine if something is really going to work or not before they go through all of the coding required to make something happen. The documentation section of UXPin has been a big asset for our teams in the last year. It helps our developers to spell out additional things that may not be as obvious when reviewing the wireframes. It also allows our clients a better way to provide feedback on the app and web flows we share with them.
With UXPin, we're able to share working wireframes to allow our clients the ability to click through their proposed app screens and website pages. It also helps our development teams determine if something is really going to work or not before they go through all of the coding required to make something happen. The documentation section of UXPin has been a big asset for our teams in the last year. It helps our developers to spell out additional things that may not be as obvious when reviewing the wireframes. It also allows our clients a better way to provide feedback on the app and web flows we share with them.
- Allows you to add documentation to the projects you create in order to further define functionality and flow.
- Allows you to add images and other files to the projects you create in order to share a prettier blueprint of your projects to your clients.
- Allows you to share previews of the projects you create easily with your clients.
- Gives you a quick method for helping clients understand the functionality and flow of their product (i.e. a website, an app, etc.)
- It would be nice to have the documentation available within the simulation so you don't have to toggle between the two.
- Being able to work more efficiently always has a positive impact on our ROI and UXPin contributes to that.
- Being able to visually show how something is going to flow or work keeps us from having to explain things multiple times to clients, and therefore, it provides a positive impact on our client relationships.
- Giving our development teams the ability to work through flow and function before they begin coding has saved us thousands of dollars in development time.
- Marvel
Marvel was great for helping to define app flows and apply app designs to give our clients a better visual of how their apps would flow and work in order to assist with UX. However, we needed something a bit more robust. We weren't just looking for something that was pretty. We wanted a way to help our teams work more efficiently on projects. UXPin allows us to work on the visual as well as the documentation. That is very important when explaining all the different nuances of how an app is supposed to function and flow to provide the best UX for customers.
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The people in our organization that use UXPin provide several business functions. 3 of them represent our clients and present everything that we create related to their projects via UXPin so it's important that they understand how UXPin works. 3 of them actually create the projects for our clients in UXPin and know how it works better than any other users. Then 2 of us use UXPin predominately for creating development specifications for our clients.
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It's very helpful to have people in your organization that have some design or development knowledge in order to use UXPin and help others in your organization understand how to use the software. While we have several people in our organization that use the software, we have 2 people that have taken ownership of everything that UXPin offers and has helped on-board other users in our organization so we can use everything that UXPin offers.
- Creating Development Specifications for Apps
- Creating App Flows
- Creating Website Flows
- Creating Visual Sitemaps
- Using UXPin to illustrate sitemaps
- Using UXPin to create development specifications for apps
June 22, 2019
UXPin: A One-Stop-Shop for Design Workflows
Within the last year, my company’s design team started using UXPin to explore a wireframing and prototyping solution with robust tools for both creating wireframes and prototypes AND collaboration. We have many current tools in our arsenal, and we’ve used many other tools in the past, and one of our most consistent frustrations is that many of these tools do really well for designing but less well in collaboration (or vice versa). So now we’re using UXPin to see if we can save some costs by reducing the number of tools we pay for, and by saving us time in being able to use one tool for design and collaboration.
- Robust ability to create both lo-fi and high fidelity prototypes—There are plenty of tools to use libraries, add animations, drag and drop Sketch files into designs, and use other functionalities to create designs.
- Ability to annotate prototypes—The great annotation tool enables users to explain nuances and details for stakeholders, particularly for more complicated designs.
- Ability to create tasks for user testing—Within the same platform you create a prototype, and you can list out the user testing tasks and send them along with a link to the prototype to testers. Note that you can even record and view testing recordings within this same platform.
- Ability to create team libraries—UXPin allows users to create team libraries, which is great for brand and design consistency across designs and across projects.
- Could be more intuitive—My team has been using UXPin for several months now, and it still feels like we are learning how to use it. It’s great to have a robust tool, but it’s not saving us any time when we’re still struggling to figure it out.
- Can’t speak to or chat live with customer support—When things go wrong or get confusing, having to wait for an email is pretty frustrating.
- It can be slow with more complex designs—UXPin is great for smaller designs, but the platform can get buggy and lag behind with more complex prototypes.
- Saving money by using one tool for lo-fi wireframing, high fidelity wireframing, prototyping, and user testing, rather than four separate tools.
- The ability to create and use team libraries enables us to create visually consistent designs with less effort than creating every single design from scratch, which allows us to save considerable time (and therefore money!)
- In-platform collaboration saves our team a lot of time and energy. With everything in one place (wireframes, prototypes, user feedback, collaboration comments), we can all be on the same page about the design workflow and pinpoint discussion points that are based on up-to-date designs.
There are definitely pros to these other tools, but UXPin gains a significant edge by providing tools to perform several significant steps of the design workflow in one place. For instance, we could wireframe in Lucidchart, prototype in Marvel, then manually perform user testing using Zoom or some other screen sharing service, where UXPin allows us to do all of those things in one platform.
June 30, 2017
Beware of losing hours of work!
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Was using service to create a mockup of our home page. We wanted to try out the tool to see if we'd use it for our UX and wireframing.
- Interface is clean
- Cloud based
- Lost half a day's work (3 hours).
- Customer support lied to us telling us it was because we must have had an inconsistent internet connection. This makes no sense at all - we worked for full hours uploading images and other media to the document - all of which was saved continuosly. On top of that there was still one of the elements remaining at the end of the blank page which proves the previous addition of elements had been saved.
- Customer support is only available via email.
- Community website is buggy - not possible to use search field to search for help topics.
- Lost half a day's work and became very frustrated with customer support and service.