Connectivity, Collaboration and New Design Paradigms
November 11, 2022

Connectivity, Collaboration and New Design Paradigms

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Freehand Pro

Overall Satisfaction with InVision Freehand

We use Freehand within our design team and with Product managers in a few different ways, primarily as a noodling and collaboration tool. Since most of the team is in different geographic locations and time zones, FH provides and easy collaborative space that is fun, easy and full of valuable features; both for new and power users. In addition, the UX team likes to use it as a planing space for user flows, design thinking exercises and early wireframes of our products.

Pros

  • Provides great templates for a multitude of activities, ceremonies and meeting objectives. Allowing team to save time and use proven methodologies.
  • Survey tools for design reviews and other feedback tools are easy to use and provide rapid direction and insights.
  • Presentation frames allows designers to have design Playgrounds and experiment freely yet rapidly clean up and show only the most relevant variants and design options.

Cons

  • The search function sometimes does not find the right files, particularly when naming conventions are not clear amongst a big group it can sometimes be challenging to find documents.
  • The archive/library can also be hard to visualize the complete set of files and experiments. Discovery and browsing can be challenging.
  • Notifications could be easier to follow as somethimes we receive a lot of notes and corrections and need an easy way to check off/close comments and notes.
  • Speed of the platform
  • Ease of use
  • Quantity and quality of existing frameworks and templates
  • InVision Freehand has reduced the time of feedback cycles with outside teams dramatically by allowing marketing, sales and non-product people to easily leave comments, copy and other relevant feedback into our designs EARLY in the process.
  • Having an online tool where our global design team can collaborate in real-time and have a very similar experience to being in the same room during a brainstorm session is incredible for morale, productivity and team dynamics. We are able to get things done and enjoy the process.
InVision Freehand is closing the gap and adding all the functionalities that some of these tools provide separately. In the race towards a one-stop digital design ecosystem, InVision Freehand is well poised to deliver and connect where others can't. I hope that with the news of Adobe acquiring Figma, InVision Freehand can continue to be a leader and pioneer in this space.

Do you think Freehand by InVision delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Freehand by InVision's feature set?

Yes

Did Freehand by InVision live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Freehand by InVision go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Freehand by InVision again?

Yes

InVision Freehand has quickly evolved to be a very robust solution for our pre-design process and collaboration with stakeholders and other product teams. It has brought a lot more hands-on workshopping opportunities and created engaging spaces for cross functional teams. Internally to our design org we are able to prototype ideas faster and generate insights or changes BEFORE going into more hi-fidelity design tools or processes.

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