InVision - Design & Prototype
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User Reviews for InVision - Design & Prototype
Great clean interface, lacking features
Overall, I love using InVision to share project design prototypes with clients. The clean UI makes for a great experience for both parties.With that said, since I have been using the app for 3 months now involving a few different projects, I have come across various features that simply could exist, that don’t. Don’t get me wrong, I do love the minimal, and simply functions of InVision.1) the app allows only 1 view to be specified within one project. So a desktop view OR a mobile view, has to be selected. But what if there is 1 project that consists of a mobile and a desktop view. This makes it impossible to seamlessly share these within a unified project with a client.2) wishing there was a status of a design or prototype that was for drafts, that have been reviewed, and are filled with feedback and comments that you wish to keep, without it clogging up “in progress, needs review, or completed” non of which apply to this very relevant category.These are two glaring issues right now, but overall, like the software a lot. However at 14 / month, it’s pricy for very minimal features.
App Navigation Makes No Sense
Big fan of desktop experience, navigation and IA. Unfortunately none of that translates to the mobile app. In fact a lot of the hierarchy like spaces/sections do not translate on mobile (at least in an intuitive way) which makes it very difficult to navigate and find the pages you actually want to preview.One example of an unintuitive interaction is returning to your dashboard after you click into a prototype - very unclear and I still find myself randomly tapping/swiping in order to get back - if i don’t just quit the app. Another is how the sections translate on mobile - instead of seeing the section titles, I just see the project name repeated. Why not just show the section titles? Would love to see better integration between desktop and mobile - especially for viewing mobile prototypes.
No care here, disappointed
As involved as InVision is with the modern day design industry, it’s very odd how little attention or care their mobile app seems to get.This app is lacking in almost every way. In fact the only thing it does well is allow you to tap through prototypes. That’s fine, but only accounts for about 10% of what the full InVision platform offers. 1. No settings. It’s impossible to do any kind of editing or configuring of your prototypes. Something as simple as allowing me to enable or disable the status bar on the fly seems like a no-brainer. This is literally a read-only application (apart from comments)2. No Apple Pencil support. Their desktop version has a great freehand tool that allows you to scribble notes on your screens. You would *think* they would extend that tech to the iPad + Apple Pencil, but it is noticeably absent. The iPad app is just an upscaled version of the iPhone one and gives the middle finger to anyone trying to use the iPad as a serious professional tool. 3. No workflow access. Again this app is lacking basic features from the web version that would be incredibly easy to implement. 4. Activity Feed? Permissions? Account management? All missing.To be honest I wouldn’t as disappointed about this as I am if InVision didn’t block you from accessing the site on a mobile browser. There is no reason I shouldn’t be able to use Safari on my iPad Pro to make quick edits or changes to prototypes or account management.
Poor Execution on a Good Idea
I desperately wanted to like InVision, but currently, the experience on my iPad Pro may be one of the worst, inconsistent, and buggy apps in its class. It’s clear that the team has only given the mobile experience a passing consideration as many features, and especially the Freehand section, are so riddled with bugs that it’s almost unusable. For example, trying to change the shape tool in Freehand sometimes offers up the expected menu for another choice, but more often than not, it won’t. Instead, it will end up “selecting” the option below it as if I were trying to copy and paste the icon. Even once I get it to select what I’m looking for, it frequently fails to actually draw anything as if another action is being performed. The only way to “fix” any of these compounding issues is to completely exit the document and come back in to work for a few minutes more and repeat the process.Part of what makes this so frustrating is the amount of potential here. This very well could have been my highlight discovery as in concept, it’s almost everything I could have asked for, but the execution is so bad, I’m considering abandoning the desktop experience as well. How the app ever saw the light of day in this state is beyond my understanding.
Great for prototypes and freehand, but making a board would be nice.
(UPDATE) as I’ve been using it I’ve realized there are some very weird user experience interactions in this app. I work at a UX agency, and I have to say with the invision app I’m always finding interactions where I have to stop and think “how the heck do they call this a good user experience.” For being a UX focused company, I’m disappointed in them.At this point I’ve come to expect that I can do everything on my iPad Pro that I can do on my laptop, however with the invision app that isn’t the case yet.They’ve made great strides with the recent edition of freehand, but now I would very much like to make my own boards from my iPad whenever inspiration strikes, rather than it being a desktop only feature.
Invision a product that could be...
Since it’s inception Invision has been a product that almost does what you wish it would. Its Boards function doesn’t support many file formats and cannot handle bulk uploads. It has few layout formatting options and despite having been in existence for years has still not updated the customization of notes or text. Annotations on single images thread out replies in a single thread making it difficult to know which response is to what note.If you happen to stumble upon a board link on a mobile device that is found elsewhere (say Slack or email) Invision doesn’t recognize that you have their mobile app and by default points you to download it every single time. If you’re not added as an editor to each individual board, you’ll not see all your boards on the app unless you previously commented on them because the mobile app doesn’t seem to know you’re the administrator of the entire team and have access by default.Invision has been this way for years. Actual years. Their products are ripe for disruption not because they’re poor ideas, but because they’re frail and incomplete and the company doesn’t appear to recognize this.
A complete mobile and iPad failure
I’ve seen many other reviews on this and I do not understand how so many voices failed to be recognized. After all, they are just your users....1. First and foremost, who decided that locking the rotation was a good idea? I understand the hypothesis, but in actual practice, this is terribly annoying in every way possible. InVision is not merely just a ‘mirror’ app — it doesn’t absolutely *have* to maintain its original design spec environment. When viewing mobile designs on an iPad, its rotated 45º because I’m on a landscape view on the iPad. We have an email thread of 182 employees in my company raving on about how badly this has disrupted our pipeline. Moving to Figma seems like a no-brainer now. 2. NOTHING on iOS platforms reveal the ability to manage your projects or art boards. A large chunk of people are actually moving entirely to iPad and mobile to do 90% of their design ‘management’. I cant invite anyone to a project, modify ‘share’ settings, delete an artboard or project, drag anything around, inspect code...nothing. It’s confusing. It’s been this way for several years and I’ve written about this at least 4x now (that I’ve found emails on). 3. Lastly, I just found out that, even on the iPad (as with mobile), I can’t view projects on the web browser. I’m done with it. I’ve given InVision over 4 yrs to change this stuff and other tools are running laps in front of the improvements you’ve so slowly made.
Unusable on Mobile
Let me first start by saying the Desktop Web version of this tool deserves 3-4 stars. It is very useful, however, it does come with many set back. There will be a new version release soon in which many features will be enhanced, but currently the tool is far from “perfect”... or great.Now on to Mobile... never mind, just don’t waste your time using mobile. Login through Safari, or whatever browser app you use and go with the web version. You’ll find really stupid things on the mobile version, like having to turn your iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard to portrait mode to sign in. Then after you’re forced to download THE ENTIRE project from scratch to your device, which is a nightmare if hot fixes are being applied by designers when you’re on the go... the app will just crash a moment later when trying to do anything.Really hope they resolve these issues in the new version being released soon. Will update review if I’m satisfied.
Great Promise, extremely buggy
I’ve been using this app paired with InVision studio for several weeks now. At first, it seemed the answer to all our problems. Create a prototype in studio, add complex animations and transitions, and view them on the app! Everything worked great, and then I started seeing massive bugs like hotspots moving around, buttons moving to locations not specified as you navigate through animated screens etc. This means having to constantly “refresh” prototypes, including during user testing sessions. It has immense promise, and after trying 4-5 other tools like Figma is the only one that has this nice ability to easily animate and run prototypes of mobile apps (not websites). If they can fix the bugs my rating would go from a 1 to a 5, but for more complex prototyping it seems not quite ready for prime time.
App crashes when accessing every single prototype
The app is useless except for viewing comments. The app crashes after viewing any of my teams various prototypes after about 30 seconds. This happens every single time, for every single prototype. These crashes defeat the entire purpose of downloading and using the application.The UX of the app doesn’t matter if the app crashes every time you try to view a profile. Useless! InVision really needs to pay more attention to squashing bugs, not only on this application, but on the web based application as well on desktop. I’ve sent their support team multiple problems/tickets when trying to expand groups in a prototype and not being able to expand or collapse groups of mock-ups. They offered no support and told me they would tell the product team. Here it is a year later and it’s still a huge issue with both myself using it, as well as my entire UX team of 18 team members. Not good!Very disappointed in InVision’s quality. It could be great if only a few bugs were taken care. Without fixes, the bugs completely cripple the experience and usage on mobile and desktop.
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Design on the go with the InVision app. Bring screens to life in a Prototype, present Studio files, brainstorm with your team with Freehand, see recent activity in Conversations, and more. It’s all available in real time, from anywhere.
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