Unclaimed: Are are working at InVision ?
InVision is a collaboration and prototyping software designers use to create interactive design prototypes. The platform allows users to share their work easily, thus allowing for easier design collaboration. It also offers presentation tools and provides a platform by which people can easily provide feedback.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
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| Languages | English |
I appreciate that the boards can be shared between people. The ability to pick colors within the board. And the prototype feature us handy when showing people mockups.
I do wish the free account had more available boards.
Sharing visions, ideas, thoughts easily and quickly.
The ability to leave comments on mock-ups. Great way to collaborate. Specs feature is also great for dev hand off.
It needs more screen resolutions for prototypes. The options are kinda limited right now. It could also use some more complicated interactions.
Great tool to brainstorm also, along with creating interactions and dev hand off.
The prototyping feature that allow for creating an interactive prototype of the product.
Nothing really, I almost love everything about Invision
Wireframing, and prototyping
For those new to wire frames Invision is very easy to learn the basics and for those developers who are sharing content with end users it is great to capture feedback real time
When collecting comments in prototype collaboration it is not easy to figure out how to see the comments in Studio
Providing wire frame mock ups for business units/end users who will be using software developed by process improvement teams. Wire frames are so much easier to understand and present than written software requirement docs.
The interface is easy to use and getting started with it was simple than with other softwares. I like using it with Sketch to simplify and show clients how things will function in a certain prototype. The interactive tools such as overlays, popups and animations are a delight to work with in InVision.
I've notived some glitches while using InVision and working on prototypes; not major, thankfully, but still there.
I'm a designer and using InVision has quickly helped me implement professional and creative prototypes into my work. Web-based designs have made it easier for me to work with my team and clients. Also, I think everyone in my team can agree with me when I say that it gives room for individual work while at the same time maintaining communication with everyone else.
Invison has a suite of products that allow a designer freedom with the ideation, creation and presentation of their work. Freehand is an amazing brainstorming tool and Invision Studio takes creating wireframes/prototypes to the next level because of time transitions and animations.
Invision Studio was a bit buggy when launched so still run into wonky behaviour every now and then. Invision prototyping is still limited as to what it can do but it's headed in the right direction.
We use Invision for animating our Sketch designs to present to stakeholders and developers. The ability to share a link, even via sms and allow for commenting means the feedback loop can be very fast.
The specs feature that is generated when screens are uploaded to Invision
Does not let you collaborate with the team members
Sharing with the developers and providing design specs.
I really like Invision because it is a development web designer that allows to create prototypes of pages or high-fidelity remote applications, this software generally facilitates collaboration in real time, in the same way, most of the projects that users decide to create digitally, the most striking thing from my point of view is that it offers so many virtues, and the most impressive thing is that everything if it is a single line of code, which causes several people to register daily, since it is a high-end software, related to your topic.
In contrary determinations, we can mention that the software, on occasions, may present slowdowns due specifically to trying to load large and heavy files, which are created in the system, being a problem since this failure does not originate in the connection, In other considerable aspects, it should be noted that its interface would be incredible if it were simplified a little more according to the new features it offers, being so, it would be more intuitive.
Invision is used in the design process of our website to see prototypes and wireframes, this system is an excellent tool to give a sense of depth to each user who decides to carry out their work with this software, guaranteeing success in its development, determining them as concrete and effective, since they offer us their services, this allows us excellent feedback and a much more simplified process when carrying out the daily work carried out by the company's staff, especially when we refer to projects of great importance and convenience.
- Ease of Use - Inspect element feature where developers can get all the details from the design - Comment feature right in the app
- Limited number of projects for the package we got.
- Sharing high fidelity designs with Dev and QA - Running User testing sessions using the click through prototype - Inspect element to find out all specs for the designs
InVision allows you to not only execute designs, but also to share with a team of people. This team can then comment directly on the designs, and those comments are visible to everyone. This allows for linear discussions to happen, which proves to be significantly more streamlined and efficient than doing something like sharing files and trying to collect, consolidate and organize feedback from these sources. Also, InVision allows you to build out somewhat living prototypes. For example, if you are designing a website, you can link the navigation to the correct page designs. There are also ways to show things like accordions and dropdown menus being expanded, and even some light transition effects (sliders, fade effect, etc) .
Here's a scenario worth avoiding. I manage a development team at an agency, and for a long time we didn't have actual paid seats. Only our design team did. For them, they had access to login and see all versions and variations of a design. For us, each was shared as a sharable link. As new versions of designs were created, the design team thought we were being notified since they all were. However, the only way we would know is if they provided a new sharable link for us to access. When that didn't happen, we continued working off old designs because we didn't know anything changed. While this all makes sense from a business level, it's worthy of noting so you can avoid this kind of issue if you work in similar kind of environment. InVision is great, but before committing to it, be sure you factor in the cost to get the right number of actual seat licenses.
The ability to share designs in a propotype manner, with both internal and external (clients) teams and collect feedback is invaluable. It has saved out account managers countless hours trying to manually consolidate and organize feedback and change requests through design reviews. Being on the development side, I also love the fact that the design team can roughly mock up some transitions, hover effects, etc to let us know that kind of functionality is expected.