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InVision Freehand as a collaboration tool
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and access. I like that the product is continually evolving and more features are being added.
What do you dislike about the product?
Continual shifting of interface elements results in a more complicated user experience. The speed and performance is also problematic at times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creative collaboration with remote or dispersed teams. Critiques that used to happen in physical rooms now can happen in a virtual environment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It helps facilitate conversations and critiques of work. It's a virtual environment that helps connect remote teams.
Good for basic whiteboarding activities
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to post screens for review and interactive comments - I really like posting notes on the boards (as opposed to the comments you post but need to click to open/read)
Easy learn when you invite participants
Easy learn when you invite participants
What do you dislike about the product?
The whitebaording templates are nice but as I recall the graphics elements don't work too well as groups and diagrams. We just ended up switching to Lucid Chart.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- we started with basic journey mapping
- we ran a brainstorming workshops to design a dashboard
- we ran a brainstorming workshops to design a dashboard
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You need to decide what you need:
- post wireframes or screen mockups for review / comment/ drawing on a board (with ability to update each screen)
- whiteboarding: do you need to vote, set breackout rooms, etc, or have a quick and easy place to brainstorm and draw
- create specs with easy to attach and read comments
- post wireframes or screen mockups for review / comment/ drawing on a board (with ability to update each screen)
- whiteboarding: do you need to vote, set breackout rooms, etc, or have a quick and easy place to brainstorm and draw
- create specs with easy to attach and read comments
Versatile tool for collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
It's flexible enough to be used for different goals. You can share projects, whiteboard, plan, and more. You can also use it synchronously or asynchronously.
What do you dislike about the product?
Uploading from sketch can produce pixelated images on Freehand
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Comparing different design directions for interfaces and icons
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The templates are a helpful starting point
nice collaboration tool, but deff need more guidance for content management.
What do you like best about the product?
1. multiple note-taking, wireframe-drawing, and comment tools boost the efficiency of collaboration and communication, especially in the virtual co-working environment now.
2. really appreciate you adding the key-word searching capability. it's a game-changer for our exp. before we often had a messy huge board in the middle or by the end of the sprint. it was always hard to locate some previous notes/ideas.
2. really appreciate you adding the key-word searching capability. it's a game-changer for our exp. before we often had a messy huge board in the middle or by the end of the sprint. it was always hard to locate some previous notes/ideas.
What do you dislike about the product?
the presentation view - i don't necessarily dislike it, but sometime in my use case, I need some reference in other areas of the canvas to view the presenter's current view. always wish to have a split-window or something when I m following the presenter's view.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
i can provide the visuals and ideas more quickly and accurately with the tools on freehand. building up a more holistic view of the ideas I wanna present to the team. Good ideas are hard to describe to better understood if ppl see the visuals.
I love digital collaboration!
What do you like best about the product?
On invision Freehand, I like that you can resize the sticky notes. A specific competitor (Figma FigJam) doesn't allow for the resizing of sticky notes which is a big pain point for me.
What do you dislike about the product?
The first digital whiteboarding tool I ever used was Mural, and I was used to resizing text the way that Mural does it (a plus and minus sign button when you select the text). It took me a while to figure out how to resize text on inVision freehand (dragging the corner of the box to resize). It didn't feel intuitive to me how to resize the text. I also like that on Mural you can recolor elements like shapes, stickies, text, etc. using hex codes. There seems to be a limited color palette on inVision Freehand and this sometimes limits me (for example, if I am synthesizing research for 12 interviews I wish I could have 12 different colored stickies).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a product designer, I use sticky notes to capture data from user interviews. I then use these sticky notes to create an affinity map to gather insights. I also use Freehand for discovery sessions and for leaving feedback on designs. I feel like these digital whiteboarding tools have really helped my team maintain a collaborative spirit even when working remotely.
Overall a useful tool
What do you like best about the product?
It's a solid way to collaborate with my team & our partners. We can easily spin up a new Freehand or share a link to an existing Freehand and start collaborating
What do you dislike about the product?
There can be a bit of a learning curve for new users as they get used to the tools. The text sizing tool & zoom level are items I continue to see collaborators struggle with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Since our org pays for InVision we have been able to solve collaborating digitally where we once may have been in a room together. It allows our team from across the globel to come together in a common space & share ideas.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're already using InVision, it's a no brainer to use Freehand for digital collaboration.
Delightful Experience
What do you like best about the product?
Flexbility to creat graphical assests like sticky notes and charts.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kind of hard to intergrate google doc into invision
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it mostly for brainstorming or competitive research, its really great with keeping track of all the screen shots I took.
Mechanical Design Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
Everything is in one place (an entire project and all the related information is all in one location).
Simultaneous users (multiply users can work at the same time).
Simultaneous users (multiply users can work at the same time).
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not found anything I dislike yet (I am still new to Miro, but I really like the platform and the collaborative environment it generates).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Miro has provided the ability to easily work with team members who are working remotely.
Excellent tool for online collaboration - more than a whiteboard
What do you like best about the product?
Miro is built around a whiteboard app as its primary feature. However it also does some of the things you'd expect from Teams or Slack - such as video conference, chat, etc. The whiteboard is excellent and in my opinion, this feature alone makes the price worthwhile. Whiteboards can be as "fun" (emojis, great colours, stickers, etc) or "business" (clean, professional-looking templates, consistent colours and shapes, flowchart tools, options to export). They are very intuitive to use. There are a huge variety of pre-made templates to help start you out, and users can add their own templates to the library.
One feature that helps a lot is the use of frames. Anything inside of a frame can be exported as a group to a CSV file, which is super useful. So, say you are doing a lessons learned workshop, you can export all the "What went well" stickynotes together, separate from the "What could be improved" stickynotes.
The "Team" plan is only about $20 per month. This comes with two licenses but allows unlimited visitors who can edit the boards they have been invited to. This means that as a project manager I can pay for the license for me and one other facilitator, and invite whoever I'm collaborating with that day to join the board with just a link. This is a game-changer, as you don't have to buy a certain number of licenses and constantly shuffle project members around to free up seats.
One feature that helps a lot is the use of frames. Anything inside of a frame can be exported as a group to a CSV file, which is super useful. So, say you are doing a lessons learned workshop, you can export all the "What went well" stickynotes together, separate from the "What could be improved" stickynotes.
The "Team" plan is only about $20 per month. This comes with two licenses but allows unlimited visitors who can edit the boards they have been invited to. This means that as a project manager I can pay for the license for me and one other facilitator, and invite whoever I'm collaborating with that day to join the board with just a link. This is a game-changer, as you don't have to buy a certain number of licenses and constantly shuffle project members around to free up seats.
What do you dislike about the product?
Where it has room for improvement is that sometimes when you invite someone they get stuck in a dark pattern where they are prompted to sign up for Miro themselves or prompted to log in. Guests do not need to log in and it can be a confusing experience that leads to people needing me to help them troubleshoot having signed up by accident. It's enough of a problem that I don't always use Miro if I'm dealing with an audience that is not confident online. That said, this can be navigated with some careful instructions, and once people are in, the guest experience is very smooth.
When exporting, it's not possible (or at least I have not found how) to export things according to a hierarchical or flowchart order. So you need to go into your excel doc and re-order things if, for instance, you were trying to use it to build an information architecture or org chart. This is a feature I hope they add!
When exporting, it's not possible (or at least I have not found how) to export things according to a hierarchical or flowchart order. So you need to go into your excel doc and re-order things if, for instance, you were trying to use it to build an information architecture or org chart. This is a feature I hope they add!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using MSTeams and their whiteboard is not a fantastic user experience. I wanted to use a more intuitive platform for my workshops and collaborations now that we are online so much. Using Miro most of my team members can just jump in and start using it without too much instruction or orientation. I start each workshop with a couple of tasks (zoom in, zoom out, navigate around the board, place a sticky, resize it, change its colour, move it, leave a comment on it). Once they can do that, they are pretty much set.
Visual and live collaboration - all remote
What do you like best about the product?
Having used Miro for a bunch of tasks, from storyboarding to linking to external documents and images, I like the range of visual options and the ability to collaborate with my colleagues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lag - especially working in large teams, and the expensive $$ and difficult process of adding people to access the board, technical mishaps and long tutorials.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working with a cross functional international team of game developers + producers to put together the skeleton of a game. We wouldn't be able to collaborate without it!
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