InVision - the right tool for quick and simple prototyping
September 06, 2017
InVision - the right tool for quick and simple prototyping
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with InVision
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.
- ROI on InVision is outstanding, we use it to prototype potential through actual functionality.
- We have started using InVision in the sales process to mock up prototypes of client needed functionality without the cost associated with traditional development efforts.
- It has changed how we interact with the development team and as such we have reduced costs and streamlined workflows.
We started using Marvel for rapid prototyping and the two are fairly analogous. In the end team and enterprise functionality drove the switch from one tool to the other. Another tool we had used is Axure, and for truly advanced, data driven prototyping, it's still the tool to use. For simpler, magic glass, prototypes it works great.