I have personally tried using InVision and Indigo Studio tools for the purpose of quick review.
InVision
InVision is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of website or application. This is how it works:
- You design the UI first via Photoshop or any other photo editing software
- Link all the images together
- Send the prototype to anyone. Then you can click on a particular area, a Comment section will appear (just like in Facebook) then leave feedback on the page.
- The Comments or feedback is delivered instantly to the inbox. Notifications will appear on InVision app. Again, just like Facebook.
- By default, comments will be delivered to other collaborators via email in an instant as well.
- You can collaborate inside/outside the company because there is a feature where you can conduct live web meeting to talk and walk through designs, whiteboard together, and have group instant messaging.
So, InVision is really cool not only for the presentation of the pages but for collaboration purposes. And since, we are uploading image files, the user can already see what the pages are going to look like. The color, font sizes etc.
Indigo Studio
Indigo Studio ($495), on the other hand, is more on the rapid prototyping side. You don’t work on ready-made images. There are available common controls you can just drag here and there. And then, with just some clicks of the mouse, you can make the pages interactive. You can also get the HTML code generated by the prototype. Its collaboration feature is not as cool as InVision, though. All you can do is add an annotation to specific areas. I could not make it work though if I am the “user”. Just when I am in the role of a designer.
Conclusion:
If you want to easily present your designs and require constant collaboration with clients or other team members, you should use InVision. For rapid prototyping of individual screens without giving importance to the ease of collaboration, use Indigo Studio.