I love that I can create an interactive feeling for clients without knowing a lick of code.
Sometimes getting a client familiar with how to use the comment features is a hurdle, especially if their role is outside the design/ux industry (but easy to overcome with a walkthrough) - just not as intuitive for them.
I create branding comps of websites for clients, and love being able to show what clicking around a page would do without having to invest in coding while we are adjusting the look and feel. Also love to use it as a way to communicate directly with the developers and easily and clearly capture questions and feedback.
- Ease of use - Feedback loop is solid - The ability to tailor the feedback is critical for designers - The Invision boards are an amazing way to organize mood boards - Fast prototyping is critical to communicate intention
- Sometimes clients complain about logging in to “another” application to make comments - It is yet another tool that we have to manage
- Internal feedback/collaboration - External feedback/collaboration - Rapid prototyping - Sprint reviews
One of my favorite things about InVision is a cohesive, centralized, and fast tool for uploading screens, linking up mock-ups, and getting some basic functionality in the hands of users. You get what you put in, so if you take the time to really think about your prototypes, you can build some amazing things that feel real enough to validate crucial insights in the UX process. Taking things further into Hi-Fi mock-ups, screen management tools, and a killer feedback system keep you working inside the same tool through more of the design process.
I don't like the static feel of the screens. I wish I could edit elements, in a layer system, to animate it/out, swap in/out, and transition between. With the addition of a layer system in InVision, the tool would destroy pretty much every other tool other than Pixate or Framer.js.
When it's time to validate flows, red-routes, UX considerations or just general funnel optimization, having the direct feedback of people manipulating a prototype is the fastest way to get to key insights.
I like the design prototyping functionality. We use this tool all the time at my company to create prototypes, share them with various stakeholders, collect their feedback, and answer their questions live on the prototype. Invision is just so simple to use, and every department can quickly digest a new design and give their feedback quickly. I like how the prototypes are interactive, so the viewer can click around just like they would with a live product. I have zero complaints about Invision, and I think we will be using it for a long time.
I truly don't have anything I dislike about it. Perhaps if I was more involved with actually creating the prototypes, I could find some things to nitpick. But for my current role, I use Invision to view design prototypes and provide feedback only. For this use case, it does the job perfectly.
Getting quick and actionable feedback from stakeholders on new designs we are working on, sharing prototypes with stakeholders and clients. We realized the value of getting design feedback quickly so we can make adjustments and start development as soon as possible.
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.
Who doesn't know InVIsion app? it's the best app for UI designer to collect app feedback, brainstorming, create a rough idea. inVision create a plugin in called Craft for both apps (Sketch and Adobe Photoshop) to make designer easily when upload design to inVision plus they also add some feature such as, name, address, article generator, generate images
One thing, I don't like from inVision , it was subscription price a bit expensive for Asian designer.
Yeah, of course. the inVision resolve the gap between client and designer when collecting a feedback and know the flow and interaction.
Presentation is everything in my field of work, no matter how great your UX/UI is, in the end, if the presentation isn't good, it's going to leave a bad impression. Invision does this job seamlessly by enabling gestures, helping the designer make the design feel like an MVP.
Invision sometimes tend to mess up the order of the files uploaded and rearranging it is quite a task especially if you have like 50-100 screens uploaded.
Quick feedback is essential to rapid prototyping. The commenting feature enables this. Makes it easier for clients to provide feedback on the spot without having to switch tabs.
Everyone should try InVision because it is a very helpful tool for sharing your designs with the client. With this, you can also make clickable and interactive prototypes to share with the client. When shared with the client, they can also comment on the designs then and there itself. We can even share .gf images. If you want to start a new project and want to share initial concepts or references, you can do it with the mood board. With the latest update, I like the on hover feature which makes it feel like a live website while sharing it with the client.
The only thing I am facing problem is the grouping system. If there was an option to group similar products, it would have been easier to projects and easy to find it.
The main problem I was facing is that the clients were giving feedback in a word document, with this I was not able to track as on which page the feedback is related or for which section. But now with InVision, clients are giving online only by which I know where it is related and what do they exactly mean.