#1 most frequent
United States of America
51.1%213 installations of 417
What is UXPin?
UXPin is a UX design platform with wireframing, prototyping and interactive mockup features.
Categories & Use Cases
Videos
Who Buys & Uses UXPin
#2 most frequent
India
16.1%67 installations of 417
#3 most frequent
Canada
7.0%29 installations of 417
UXPin - Very good tool at first, but if you're a serious designer move along
Pros
- Getting a subscription
- Sharing projects and mockups
- Implementing a simple mockup
Cons
- You have to call to cancel your subscription
- Platform is very slow, mockups are slow, editor is slow.
- Customer service is a joke
- Lots of e-mail spam
Most Important Features
- Sharing mockups
- Building mockups
- Exporting png's for presentations
Return on Investment
- Too expensive; every contributor is a full account, viewer or editor
- Making designs is very slow and expensive because lack of components
- ROI is bad overall
Alternatives Considered
Adobe XD
Other Software Used
Adobe XD
UXPin is the best design tool
Pros
- Collaboration with teammates.
- Rapid prototyping.
- Design Systems.
- JSON File for content importing.
- Bulk editing via library components.
- Interactions, and micro UX.
- Sharing and requesting feedback.
- Version branching.
- Spec mode for developers (access to assets).
- Automatically produced visual style guide with fonts, colors, and imported assets.
- Imports from sketch while keeping the shapes, colors, and fonts fully editable.
- Boolean Pen (bezzier pen) for vector drawing, and pathfinder.
- Annotation capability via documentation mode.
- Password protect prototypes.
- Upload custom fonts (enterprise, or Pro version is key imho).
- 1,000s of built in icons (iOS, Android, Font Awesome etc).
- Prebuilt design component libraries (Material Design, Booptstrap, iOS).
- Video tutorials in-app.
- Moderate learning curve - UI is familiar, and customizable.
- Copy/paste interactions, and element properties.
- Canvas properties (grids, adaptive screen sizes, scrolling).
- Asynchronous Spell check.
- UXPin's customer support is top tier.
Cons
- No search and replace for fonts (missing or just to replace).
- Tool is built for design/dev teams but does not integrate content teams in well.
- If you are not careful you can get lost in designing interactions when you should be just creating building blocks - don’t over animate!!!
- There is currently no “scrub” or click-drag interaction which limits touch capability testing/concepts.
- Editing adaptive versions of designs is very time consuming, edits to not ripple through from master viewport size. All updates are manual, even when creating an adaptive version.
- When a library item is updated, it can revert changes you have made unknowingly.
- Video integration is limited to online video host aggregators such as IMGR, YouTube, and Vimeo.
- Not a ton of info for a designer on how to use the expressions effectively.
- Prototypes with a lot of interactions can get slow, especially on computers with a lot of security software. It’s best to work with UXPin to figure out what is blocking APIs, and JS.
Return on Investment
- Quicker team alignment - a prototype is worth 1,000 meetings.
- Quicker results from testing - fail faster.
- More accurate development output.
- Builds understanding of what is needed amongst team success (what designers need vs what developers need).
Alternatives Considered
Figma, Axure RP, InVision, Bidsketch, Balsamiq, Justinmind and Proto.io
Other Software Used
Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Figma
UXPin for Better UX
Pros
- Allows you to add documentation to the projects you create in order to further define functionality and flow.
- Allows you to add images and other files to the projects you create in order to share a prettier blueprint of your projects to your clients.
- Allows you to share previews of the projects you create easily with your clients.
- Gives you a quick method for helping clients understand the functionality and flow of their product (i.e. a website, an app, etc.)
Cons
- It would be nice to have the documentation available within the simulation so you don't have to toggle between the two.
Return on Investment
- Being able to work more efficiently always has a positive impact on our ROI and UXPin contributes to that.
- Being able to visually show how something is going to flow or work keeps us from having to explain things multiple times to clients, and therefore, it provides a positive impact on our client relationships.
- Giving our development teams the ability to work through flow and function before they begin coding has saved us thousands of dollars in development time.
Alternatives Considered
Marvel
Other Software Used
Slack, Mavenlink, Google Drive
UXPin for CRO
Pros
- User flow
- Wireframes
- Easy share
- Templates
Cons
- No anchor links
- Community templates and library assets
- More price plans for smaller teams
Return on Investment
- Quick turn around
- Affordable per user
- Ability to share externally
Alternatives Considered
InVision
Other Software Used
Maxymiser, ClickTale, Google Analytics Premium, Qualaroo Insights
UXPin has my vote for being the best tool for wire framing user experience workflows
Pros
- Smart elements are super nice because they allow me to create complicated features that will appear on every page. When the client wants to change something it is very easy to do so in one place.
- Working on grid is important to me. Having the ability to change and manipulate that grid in UXPin is just what I need.
- There are tons of add on features like Font Awesome icons and prebuilt stuff that not only looks great, but also just lets me get ideas across fast without committing to what the final design is going to look like.
- I love the ability to edit things if I want. I can control several details, but it's not too overwhelming. They include various font options from Google fonts as well. You can design as much or as little as you want. The interface doesn't get in the way. It's there if you want it but has a simplicity that is nice.
- Having a link on a live webpage is a necessity. As soon as you make changes, they are live. No more worrying about which is the latest version.
- I'm a photoshop user so it has a few keyboard commands that are familiar like hold 'alt', click and drag to duplicate is nice!
Cons
- It would be nice if the link that I share with my clients is shorter. It's so long and unintelligible.
- Copy and paste doesn't always paste where you think it will. It would be a time saver if you copied a smart element from one page and then pasted it down at the same x and y coordinates on the next page.
- 'Cntrl' + 'Z' is good for one undo but try to undo more than a few and I'm not sure what is happening in the background. I had it undo some things that were out of my view on the page and I couldn't put them back without rebuilding the section.
- I don't like to show my clients the link with comment mode turned on because it causes confusion. I wish there was a way to turn it off for a set of wireframes so that I don't have to turn it off every time I am about to send the link.
- When you pull an image by a corner it is too easy to accidentally stretch and image. In my opinion is should default to keeping the image proportionate. People that don't know better will stretch things without knowing and there is not a way to reset to the actual size.
Return on Investment
- We may be spending more time in creating wireframes but the return is a clear idea of what needs to be built and what we have to build it with.
- Because we start wireframes so early we also get the client working for us early as well. It has fundamentally changed this conversation from what is the site going to look like to what it the site going to do for me and what holes do we need to fill to make that happen.
- As client content and their business goals get addressed sooner, this allows us to focus on creating better user experiences.
- From a team perspective, it has allowed us to all be on the same page. If something is in question we can pull up the wireframe and have a much more meaningful conversation with a live link rather than dealing with a series of heavy weight files that may or may not be the latest version.
Other Software Used
Adobe Photoshop