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UXPin
What Is UXPin?
UXPin is a UI design and prototyping tool that allows users to create interactive prototypes and design systems. UXPin has features for wireframing, prototyping, collaboration, and design handoff. UXPin aims to simplify the design process by centralizing design workflows and enabling teams to build products faster.
Who Uses UXPin?
Web-based and on-premise solution that helps businesses of all sizes create website wireframes and design applications with prototyping, collaboration, HTML imports, data management and more.
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Reviews of UXPin
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The maybe best rather unknown prototyping tool on the market
Comments:
I used and use UXPin for mockups and prototyping. I never felt the need for a tool to support me with wireframes or simple sketches - they are done better on paper or even PowerPoint.
But if you want to picture a digital product at maximum detail before building an actual appication, UXPin should be worth the look.
My experience has been awesome so far. The tool enabled me and my teams to execute extremely successful projects and bring digital product to life.
Pros:
UXPin is quite close to actual web development. As a former developer, I love the many options to build this more or less the same way I would create the real application. They also have best-in-class design system management. I have worked with many others (from AdobeXD to Figma). They all struggle to offer design management the way I would imagine it. You can use it browser-based or via desktop app in a very performant way.
Cons:
It feels a little bit too technical. There are other tools, which have smoother workflows. Still, there are two sides of this coin. This issue also is on the pro side, if you love to create prototypes close to the actual development. It could be a little bit cheaper for the 1-person-starter. In terms of teams, it is ok, but also not cheap. It is definitely very underrated (they do a poor job in terms of marketing or maybe get get negelected, because they are not founded in Silicon Valley). Anyway, this leads to somehow less documentation/community work on the web. If you want to ride the mainstream wave, it might be the wrong tool.
Design prototyping tool
Comments: I use this tool on daily basis in my work. Even though I don't create prototypes directly, I am using them (ones created by design team) to implement solutions. It is immensely useful to have real live examples with documentation and specification at the same time.
Pros:
Material dealing (and other) components built in Easy to use Built in prototypes for devices Easy to share and colaborarte just by sending link
Cons:
It was not easy to navigate through multiple prototype alternatives (in that case for multiple devices) as drop-down seems to be always hidden in the top left corner, but since I discover it I am more cautious.
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too good to be true
Comments: please spend some time to polish the program.
Pros:
design system. We do several projects and some shared the same theme. To have a design system really helps us to come out a prototype to customers easily.
Cons:
design system. why? the key point we choose UXPin is the component of the design system, so we can design several components then use them in projects. And, the idea is, if we change the components, then all the projects should be updated, so we could actually save times. (think about a "submit" button used for 20 pages, and you want to change the color/style of it.) However, UXPin cannot provide enough functions to support this good idea. Whenever we update the components, my teams have no way to know anything got changed, and the system only asks you to pull or push or accept to update, the result is, we totally do not trust this component system, and end up break all components and do traditional copy/paste. And, the other thing is, this program is really slow if you have several pages. In our project, we normally have 40+ pages. It is really slow, that we have to wait for couple seconds (5+ seconds) to switch to other pages. That is really a no-no when you show that to clients.
Intuitive and Surprising
Comments: I've had a great experience creating clickable prototypes and making them look great. So far, I am happy with the work it allows me to create.
Pros:
As a graphic designer who has worked with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for 8 years, it was really easy to adopt UXPin. I really appreciate UXPin's UI and functionality because its keyboard shortcuts, user gestures, and depth feel very familiar.
Cons:
I've been using UXPin for about 8 months, and I do not have any cons yet. I am only a user and not an administrator, so I would not know if pricing could be a con; for that reason, I decided not to rate its value as it relates to price.
UXPin is a great wireframing tool with the user feedback mechanism built right in
Comments: Ability to make instant changes to wireframes and have them immediately incorporated into the interactive wireframe I send to users.
Pros:
UXPin is a great wireframing tool with the user feedback mechanism built right in. The main thing I like about it is that there's no connecting my sketch account to my invision account just to gain some basic user feedback. Additionally, it's easy to get up and running - I created an account and was able to figure out all of the basics that I needed within the first hour - getting me up and running in no time, and collecting feedback from our CEO on a project I'd been trying to push through. All in all, it's a great tool. It also has just the right amount of icons, pre-made shapes, etc. for use in wireframes - without being overwhelming
Cons:
Cons... I'd say it could be a little more user friendly. Some of the buttons / CTAs on the interface are small for my taste. also, I'd prefer it if there was some color incorporated. But these are all relatively small things. It's a solid product and I like 95% of it.
