InVision Information Reviews & Insights

Score5.8 out of 10

215 Reviews and Ratings

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Business Problems Solved

InVision has been widely used by design teams to streamline the website design process and gather valuable feedback from clients. By providing tools for diagramming ideas, drawing wireframes, and creating prototypes, InVision has supported the translation of design discoveries into actual flows. Designers have found it beneficial for sharing initial mockups with clients and prototype dynamic designs with clickable interactive prototypes. This feature allows for a more in-depth feel of the design and facilitates collaboration and iterative improvements.

Additionally, InVision has played a crucial role in filling communication gaps and promoting collaboration between product, design, and engineering teams, as well as key stakeholders. It simplifies the design process for websites and digital marketing materials by allowing for easy client review and code extraction during development phases. The software's accessibility and project management features make it particularly useful for designers, UI/UX specialists, project managers, and product owners. Furthermore, InVision has been recommended by senior designers for its ability to upload designed interfaces and provide notes, making it easier for teams to understand the design intent. Overall, InVision has proven to be an invaluable tool in enhancing collaboration, facilitating handoff, and improving the overall efficiency of the design process.

InVision Reviews

18 Reviews

InformationComputer Software6Computer Networking1Internet7Information Services2Online Media2

great tool for interactive prototypes

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 4, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InVision for multiple applications. We share our initial mockups with our clients and we mainly use it to prototype and demo our dynamic prototypes to our customers. The most beneficial feature for us is that clickable interactive prototype. Another helpful thing is for our developers, there is a way to display what styling has been used in the design that is easily copied to code.

Pros

prototyping
convey styling for developers based on design
team collaboration
assets sharing
design system

Cons

inspect can be improved upon
integrations with other software like notion
version control

Likelihood to Recommend

An example of a great use of the prototyping feature is that you can all be in a meeting room, share the url and all click through the mobile app prototype on your phone. This creates a much more natural way of experiencing how a product is going to behave in the real world, rather than on a big screen.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

It's fine, I wish my company would switch to Figma

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 5, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InVision for clickable prototyping, high and low-fidelity wireframing, as well as brand development. We address problems surrounding branding, design, usability, and function in mostly web-based products. Our goals include improving customer satisfaction and loyalty by researching, building, or redesigning products that meet business requirements and are both easy to learn and use, while simultaneously pleasing the users.

Pros

InVision makes building user flows extremely easy.
InVision makes iterating wireframes even faster.
InVision makes reacting to different variations of designs simple.

Cons

InVision inspect mode doesn't have all the functionality compared to Zeplin- there are certain things you can't download.
Can't rotate anything in InVision.

Likelihood to Recommend

InVision is great for copy pasting screenshots of logo variations and reacting to them. InVision is not great for designing the logos, or designing anything with a lot of detail. Freehand is also great for assembling low fidelity wireframes/sketches, but not appropriate for creating high fidelity mockups. When you need any quick, rough designs, freehand is great. The more detail you need, the less appropriate freehand becomes.

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (Online Media company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

InVision--Collaborative Prototyping Staple

Rating: 4 out of 10

Incentivized

April 14, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InVision on occasion to share mockups and prototypes with clients, as well as to review and provide comments and feedback on design mockups. Our design team often uses it to share wireframes with the rest of the team and include comments about their thought process. We will go back and forth in an internal round of feedback this way before sharing with client. We can easily choose to hide comments before sharing so that our internal discussion is not visible to outside parties.

Pros

Prototyping
Sharing feedback internally
Collaboration for remote teams
Client presentations

Cons

The product is a bit disjointed, whereas competitor products have a more all-in-one feel
More difficult UI than other tools
Sharing settings and toolbar are not always intuitive

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is currently the leader in collaborative designing and prototyping, in my opinion. InVision, Sketch, and other tools can get the job done but are lagging behind in terms of ease of use and capabilities. InVision works well for sharing links to mockups with clients without internal conversation and comments being visible.

Andrea Hester

Director Of Operations at Clearfire, Inc. (Internet, 1-10 employees)

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2 years of experience

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Probably the most popular tool out there. Decent, but plenty of areas for improvement.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

November 12, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Designers at Calendly use InVision to hand off feature designs to developers. User stories that are defined and ready for implementation typically include InVision links. They also use InVision to share early prototypes/sketches with product leadership.

Pros

Simplicity. As a developer, I only use InVision to reference the mocks that the designer/UX person created. InVision lets me easily accomplish that.
Inspect mode is very useful for developers: instead of just looking at a static image, I can inspect individual elements to see their dimensions and styles like font size and color.

Cons

Sometimes I can't inspect the right element because some other transparent element is blocking it. Invision should handle this better and allow me to ignore certain elements or cycle through different elements at the mouse cursor.
No support for reusable styles (e.g. color variables).
No support for building an entire library of reusable components that all designers would then use. This results in frequent discrepancies between what's in the mocks and common styles of UI components (e.g. buttons, dialogs) in the actual product.
The Jira plugin is slow, allows only 1 attachment per issue, and is cumbersome to use (you need to generate a special share link to embed an Invision mock). So we just put the old-fashioned links in the issue description.

Likelihood to Recommend

InVision seems to be an industry standard and works reasonably well. It's at least worth evaluating during your research for that reason. I haven't searched the landscape, but there are plenty of ways the interaction between designers and developers can be improved, and InVision doesn't seem to be taking advantage of them. I'd love to see if there's a better tool out there.

Dmitry Pashkevich

Senior Fullstack Engineer in Engineering at Calendly (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Invision best prototyping tool out there

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Invision is currently being used for various use cases in our team. Top one being prototype, it helps to share a prototype with potential stakeholders and get feedback. It also helps in sharing design specs with developers, which reduces to and fro between developers and designers and thus increasing productivity.

Pros

Really good for prototyping.
Superb collaboration between teams.
Integration with Sketch is very useful.
Inspect product is another great resource.
The craft plugin for Sketch helps in speeding up design process.

Cons

I guess with so many features I think team management needs improvement.
Notifications and updates are not well executed.
Pricing, I think bit expensive for starters.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very well suited for design sharing, prototyping, feedback collection, design spec sharing.

Prashant Mahajan

Senior Product Manager in Product Management at Branch (Internet, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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No more design complaints in the middle of the development.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 28, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InVision to design and share our initial design for the application so that we get a sketch which is very close to the final version. It helps to get feedback without coding.

Pros

Simple interface and easy to work with.
Easy to collaborate
Versioning is a key feature.
Drag and drop feature speeds up things.

Cons

No responsive design output.
Initial loading should be better, it's slow.
Nothing much.

Likelihood to Recommend

Fast prototyping, easy to share and collaborate so that we eliminate big changes when we move into the development stage. Since the design can be made clickable we can show a process flow.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Invision saves us a lot of time and hassle implementing designs!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 4, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InVision as a clickable prototyping software for helping developers understand the flow and implementation of designs from our designer. It helps bridge the gap in communication between designers and developers and free up both of their time to focus on what they're good at instead of constantly going back and forth on small details of how to implement the designs.

Pros

The ability to leave comments on specific parts of the screen to add details or feedback for the developers. This removes the pain of trying to explain which screen/part of the screen you're referring to.
InVision makes it extremely easy to create a clickable prototype and test the flow of your software.
The design and user experience of InVision makes it very pleasant and extremely easy to use.

Cons

InVision doesn't integrate with Illustrator to automatically upload new updates to designs. You have to go back in and re-upload the file which means also changing the flow of the clickable hot spots. But it does have that capability for Sketch and Photoshop.
Because it's integrating with other platforms, it isn't as seamless of an experience as Adobe XD is at building and may be difficult to compete with Adobe over the long term because they have such a stronghold in the creative space.
Other than that it has worked very well for us!

Likelihood to Recommend

As mentioned above, InVision is great for those who are using it to work in Sketch, providing solid integrations that make the process more seamless. However, it doesn't have any integration for Illustrator, making it a more difficult and a very laborious process to update designs. For heavy Adobe users I believe XD will be a better product in the future, but for Sketch users, I believe InVision is a great product.

Brad Henderson

Co-Founder/Chief Janitor at Crisp (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

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1 year of experience

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InVision is the ideal mockup/prototype/wireframe and feedback tool to streamline your design process.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

InVision is being used in our website design process to view prototypes and wireframes. It's an excellent tool to really give an indepth feel that allows for excellent feedback and a much better streamlined process in our projects. A streamlined process means less workload, and the clients absolutely love being able to see the prototypes and wireframes with interactions which really brings it to life for them and makes the design portion of our projects ten times better.

Pros

Excellent use for working with teams, especially long distance teams.
Access levels allowing you to emulate how a website would behave.
Mood boards, I love this feature as a designer.
Clickable interactive prototypes really gives the client a much better feel for how it will work.

Cons

Can be a bit slow, especially when upload PSD files...but I wonder how much of that is due to internet speed...
A bit of a learning curve when first learning to use it...would like to see a bit more simplified interface to make it more intuitive.
You can't switch from screen to screen in the prototype mode, this really should be a priority feature.

Likelihood to Recommend

Web Design and Development teams, Application Designers and Developers, Freelance Web Designers and Developers, Mobile Application Designers and Developers can all benefit from using InVision. It really does make for a streamlined and easier process to share, provide/receive feedback on the design process. You can bring mockups to life for your clients, allow for extensive feedback and testing and so much more.

Verified User

Executive in Information Technology (Internet company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

An InVision review from an entry-level Designer

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 2, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use InVision for prototyping and getting feedback for my designs from clients and team members. I've used InVision to import my sketches for demoing a paper prototype all the way to a full-scale visual design. InVision also integrates easily with Sketch via the Craft app, which is a definite download if you have Sketch. The InVision Craft app allows you to take your artboards from Sketch and import and update them easily to your project in InVision. Every designer who regularly prototypes should learn InVision, as it has become an industry standard as well - it is well worth the cost.

Pros

Great for collaboration, I love the commenting and live share feature - it helps you keep transparency with the client.
Simplicity and ease-of-use, it's very easy to pick up and get started.
Quick workflows allow you to jump from one screen to the next very intuitively without having to go back to your project page.

Cons

Cannot perform advanced interactions, only simple drops, and swipes.
Hotspots can get a bit confusing to manage if you've created them in the Craft app within Sketch then imported them into your InVision project
Sometimes your design can feel like a clickable slideshow due to the lack of interactions

Likelihood to Recommend

InVision is well-suited when a designer is looking to demo a design/flow quickly for a client or team member to try out.

InVision is not well-suited if your website or application has many complex interactions and animations, the final product out of InVision won't convey the behaviors at all if that is the case. If your site does have complex interactions/animations, I recommend using Principle or After Effects to convey those behaviors to the client.

Verified User

Contributor in Engineering (Computer Software company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

InVision - prototype, communicate, prototype, communicate, develop

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a small team but we work in different locations and different times. Invision is the place where our designer uploads his assets. He also uses it demonstrate screen transitions. We then have a back and forth communication on the UI and UX to see that it meets our business goals which are usually aimed at making the end user happy.

Pros

The "Inspect" feature is terrific. The designer doesn't need to come up with css mapping guide. It's automatic!
Commenting on top of the assets is super easy and looks good.
Working on prototypes saves a lot of development time.

Cons

You need to upload complete assets as a page. You can't drag and drop elements to create screens.
InVision is focused on designers. That's good, but some focus on non designers (developers, product) would be nice.

Likelihood to Recommend

If your have designers working with product or do the product from the start of each feature InVision is great for you.
If your product does a lot of work prior to the designer coming in proto.io would be a better solution.
InVision is great for communications so it's great for big teams. Even more when working on different times and locations. Products that don't have many pages and interactions don't have much to benefit for InVision.

Sagiv Frankel

Co-Founder in Engineering at LoroTalk (Internet, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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