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Craft Prototype, from InVision — Design, prototype, and collaborate seamlessly
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@clarkvalberg: Impressed by balance of velocity and thoughtfulness you and your team demonstrate with each new product. InVision is bit like Motown between '59-72.
Founders: InVision's product strategy is a masterclass case study in what happens when you understand your market better than everyone else and can move on those insights with speed and precision.
@dankaplan You're too kind sir... also your allusion to motown inspired by to crank some Michael McDonald tunes while wrapping work today. :)
I mostly use Craft for syncing with Invision and the library to always have the last update for the colors and text styles of our style guide. It's really useful, and I can't complain except when it makes Sketch suddenly crash. At first, I thought this was a Sketch problem, but after looking into it, I learned that Craft could be sometimes instable. Still, it's worth the risk 😉
Pros:Really easy to update screens on Invision directly from Sketch. The library feature is also great!
Cons:Sometimes makes Sketch crash and that can be both annoying and scary.
Today we’re thrilled to share the latest from Craft—meet Craft Prototype, your tool for prototyping directly inside Sketch.
When your designs are right at your fingertips, you can make faster, smarter decisions about your prototype. With Craft Prototype, we’re bringing a new level of context and continuity to your workflow. That means better products—faster.
Now, just add hotspot to any layer in your Sketch project. Then, link it to an artboard with a desktop or mobile gesture and create transitions by fading, sliding, rotating, and more. You’ll instantly get a bird’s eye view of how your screens are connected.
Sync your screens to InVision with Craft Sync and with just a click, you can preview your work, share with your team, and collaborate in real time. We can’t wait to hear what you think!
@clarkvalberg congrats on all the great work the inVision team are doing with Craft. This is brilliant news, looking forward to giving it a go. Is there any thought around implementing transitions at the layer/object level in addition to screen transitions? Would definitely be handy for higher fidelity prototypes. Thanks!
@jonnymiles Hey Jonny- we're continuing to explore and push the envelope here. Right now this is screen-to-screen which mirrors well on the sync side with our InVision prototypes. That said were always trying to push the limits and layer/object level transitions is certainly something we've been exploring. The key here in all things is to keep the experience light, simple, and fast. Hit us up if you have any other questions and feedback! Thanks!
Here is my review and walkthrough of Craft Prototype article, but to be honest there is a lot of missing features from beta version not shipped into this public release.
https://medium.com/minitheory-de...
But those core function of InVision prototyping is working very well. If your company or organization are heavily using InVision as your primary design workflow, this is very helpful and fast to make a quick prototype, compare to using the browser to draw the hotspots. I definitely have high hope on InVision team and the future version of Craft Prototype in Sketch! ⚡️ Hope you guys enjoy reading and learn! 😁
And thanks @clarkvalberg! 🙏
Doesn't work after updating.. :(
Update: Now it work after removing any trace of the old version.
Anyway, good luck with this one, do you have any release estimations for your "Motion" feature?
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I've struggled getting Invision incorporated into my workflow in the past. With it's direct connection to Sketch, it just *works*. Magic!
Craft is a real time saver and has made Invision my defacto tool for rapid prototyping. For me, its key feature is being able to sync to Invision right from within Sketch.. that little drop down to select different projects is super efficient. This new ability to link screens should be phenomenal. I just updated my Craft, and am rearing to go. Thanks for your ingenuity and great work!
Am a recent convert to Sketch + Craft, and the connection to InVision raises productivity dramatically. Large files with lots of artboards/hotspots still face issues synching up, though, which is a bit annoying.
Pros:Speeds up workflow dramatically
Cons:Hotspot synching still has issues
Super! Look forward to using it for bringing the designs alive! Beta version I was kinda lost on how to make full use of it, any tutorials to make the most of this?
Invision has finally surpassed themselves! looks very promising tool will surly use it! :D
@theolmstead I was playing around with Prototype and I couldn't seem to find the input feature, did you guys remove it? :(
I've been using Craft since early Beta versions, and my favorite feature is auto-generation of names and easily pulling in images from the web. Along with other features as well, Craft serves to empower designers to continue the design process without anything holding us back and making our lives easier. Great tool @clarkvalberg and the entire team!