Decent Prototyping Tool - but better options existed for our workflow
Rating: 7 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We have used Proto.io as a workflow prototyping tool to illustrate interactions and steps as part of enterprise business application development. We use it in our practice. Specifically, I'm not sure if other design practices in our company handle it. (1 location of out of many locations of our business; each practice is free to use the tools it deems best for its work).
Pros
- workflow process steps
- simple interactions
Cons
- complex transition animations
- robust interactions
Likelihood to Recommend
Proto.io is suitable for what I would call mid-fidelity prototyping. It's good at conveying steps in a workflow with decent facsimiles of interactions/transitions, but not high enough that you can pass it off as the real thing. It's not a bad tool, but we've found that it fills in a kind of useless space in our internal design process. We can get away with presenting the same kind of step-by-step workflow demonstration in InVision. For animation/micro-interaction prototyping, we can use AdobeXD or FramerX if working on a React project (or even non-React if we're designing components instead of trying to go straight to code).