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Clark Valberg

Freehand 2.0, from InVision — A whole new way to collaborate creatively from InVision

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Clark Valberg
We created Freehand to give everyone on your team—designers to developers, copywriters to key stakeholders—a way to collaborate that’s flexible, powerful, easy, and fun. Now, Freehand is a core part of the InVision platform—and it’s better than ever. Your Freehands live alongside your prototypes and Boards, bringing all your digital product design creative exploration together under one roof. As we’ve been refining Freehand over the last several months it’s quickly become a critical part of our workflow—not just for our design team, but for every department in the company. We hope it’s just as powerful for your team. I can’t wait to hear what you think!
Bent Stamnes
@clarkvalberg Excellent stuff Clark, digging into it now :)
David Ryan
@clarkvalberg an infinite design surface with sync to source files? That's pretty awesome. Well done to the team!
Hoan Do
Can we add multiple line textbox or comment note on image in this version? It’s one of bad part in our Freehand workflow
Dun
Love it, but does that mean only designer in the team can use it, or other members like PM can use it too?
Stephen Olmstead
@huangdun Everyone can use it including multiple designers and any other stakeholder! In fact, thats the intent- grab ANYONE on your team and get everyone in one spot reviewing and collaborating. :)
Stephen Olmstead
Here's a few fun ways we've been seeing folks use Freehand to date... Wireframing - Internally we’re using it for ALL of our wireframing these days. Shape detection is the killer feature here enabling you to create perfect lines, rectangles, and ovals simply by holding the 'option' key while marking. Its crazy quick, meaningfully constrained, and 100% collaborative. https://twitter.com/TheOlmstead/... Design Feedback - Check out Dann Petty's excellent use case as he reviews the equally excellent Grabient on his show from this week! https://youtu.be/mFR_FiflXJI?t=423 Team Standups & Critiques - Many teams are using the Craft Freehand plugin to quickly drop in their Sketch or Photoshop art boards for quick design crits with stakeholders (bonus tip: this means your devs won't need to have Sketch/PS installed to collaborate!). https://www.invisionapp.com/craf... Redlining & Annotation - Jon Moore expounds on how Freehand has completely changed his redlining process when working with his team. https://medium.com/ux-power-tool... Digital Sketching - We’ve even seen some great digital sketches popping up including this amazing one by Jason Roache. https://twitter.com/Jroache1/sta...
Rasmus Brushoj
Looks like an amazing product! It would definitely add value to our team. Can it be used on any device, or do you need to have an Ipad or Macbook?
Paul Martens
So, on your product page I see a graphic with an iPad and Apple Pencil...yet it isn't mentioned in the video...are we going to see an update to the iPad app for freehand 2?
Prashant Mahajan
I am loving how Invision is coming up with Products, from inspect, Craft and now Freehand. Great work guys.
Wes Merrill
I much would have rather seen the Motion announcement today. Is that still in the works? Regardless, excited for this new feature! :D
Nachum Kligman
And the best just keeps getting better! Love that you are always innovating and not resting at the top. #Inspiration
Steve Messer
Ah wow, I think this could really work for me and my colleague. He works from home but I prefer to come into the office.
pdl-geek
Congrats on the new 'feature', but I feel freehand is so MS Paint while you can have pre-made components to sketch https://blog.mockflow.com/wirefr... ;-)
Jonny Sandlund
@pbramtech "good enough" faster, easier > "great" slower, harder in many cases. Especially in the prototyping phase where the essence of a design idea / assumption can often be communicated just as effectively on a whiteboard as a pixel-perfect mockup. If I had to guess a foundational principle of this product is enabling collaboration between stakeholders of varying "design" bg's. In which case a req is meeting the needs of the lowest common denominator. Otherwise, collab will suffer. @clarkvalberg and team, congrats on the launch! Stoked to give this a go!
Louise Columelli
Nice tutorial to get acquainted with your product ! I like the smooth transition between my own drawing and the squared shape ! Will keep an eyes on this
Jaz Blakeston-Petch
Looks awesome! Currently getting a "Oops" message at the moment though :(
Tomas Jasovsky
@jaz_blakeston_petch Are you getting "Oops" message when trying to create new Freehand at https://freehand.invisionapp.com... ?
Tomas Jasovsky
@jaz_blakeston_petch I'll DM you with few more questions and I'll make sure to get it fixed and running
Hillel Fuld
Such a legend. Such a legend!!
Larry Zimbler
Congrats on the newest InVision launch 🚀
Rom Shiri
Keep up the great work! 🎉