Abstract vs. Creativity 365

• Large teams with dedicated design operations support
• UX managers that want a facilitated workflow for their teams
• Disciplined teams of individual contributors that want to adopt a process in their UI workflow
• Cross-discipline teams that want a central collaboration space for reviewing and critiquing UI artifacts
• If your files are named "FOR-REALS_FINAL_FINAL_FINAL_Super-Important-Project (copy).sketch"
• If you're managing multiple pattern libraries

Incentivized

The fact we can add in a lot of different apps to use for editing, sharing or comparing it works well, I wish a lot of the apps we need to use to create content was already added to the app, but everything it offers encompasses exactly what we need to be efficient though, you just have to download each app

• Allows for collaboration within Sketch.
• Allows for approval of work by team leads.

Incentivized

• The apps are super easy to use.
• Creativity 365 software pack encompasses a wide range of functionalities, overlapping between each other to offer a complete toolset.
• It is great for capturing and highlighting important website contents with PDF Markup.
• Write-On Video is very helpful to spice up my videos and mash photos and videos together to create new content.

Incentivized

• People and permission management.
• Sharing particular states (presentation, inspection, etc.).
• New projects from templates.
• Pattern library migration (new users).

Incentivized

• occasionally crashes, but not unlike other software I have dealt with
• Having to install all apps separately
• Slow loading time

Incentivized

Abstract has a difficult learning curve. If a feature-branch workflow is new to you, then it will take some getting used to. They make a lot of updates to the interface and these feature releases get ahead of their documentation. They rely heavily on an excellent customer support team and are present on various Slack channels to help design professionals with issues.

Incentivized

Customer support seems to be fast at responding. We haven't had issues yet at least

Incentivized

I contacted customer service once and got my problem solved very quickly.

I purchased and administer Abstract. It was requested by our design department who evaluated it.

Incentivized

I think Creativity 365 holds its own in this space. I think where we are at with all this new software is a very high baseline of expectation as it pertains to how successful these software applications can be. Heck, a cell phone can give you as much power as you need at times to master these things for your business, but Creativity 365 stands apart in how it executes what it intends to do, and for that, my team and I give it a full recommendation!

Incentivized

• Single source of truth for the team.
• Could quickly get expensive with corporate accounts.

Incentivized

• The toolset has helped me to increase productivity. I have become more organized with my work due to everyday note-taking, and more efficient with my web-related tasks.