InVision - Design & Prototype for Pc

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! this app 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 this app’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.

As involved as this app 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 this app 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 this app 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.

(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 this app 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 this app 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.

Overall, I love using this app 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 this app. 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.