Marvel — Design and Prototype

I love this app very much, and I am greatly pleased to give it a 5 stars rating. I encountered myself with a problem once. I spent over 3 hours one night creating images and linking them to create my prototype. Everything seemed to work perfectly fine and it even made it really fun to build a prototype. The major issue happened the next morning. As I woke up, eager to continue my project, I noticed that, although the images were still there, it was not working anymore so I went into the link editing mode and realized that ALL links where moved and resized... I wrote a review, which I have now updated, and reported the bug. It took them 14 hours to send a response. Within the next week a new update came out which fixed the bug. I am quite impressed with the amazing, fast, and efficient service that the people behind this app give to its users. Hope this helped! And keep prototyping!

I usually use another program to prototype and wanted to try this. There's almost zero learning curve - it's so easy to use and the interface is uncluttered so it gets out of your way so you can quickly get down to work. You can play your app back on the screen, or even better, download the app onto your phone and you really get a good idea of how things are flowing. Don't hesitate, give it a try. I haven't used the commenting feature yet, but it seems pretty straightforward as well. You won't be sorry.

Marvel provides the right balance of simplicity and utility. The UI is easy to navigate and very intuitive. Transitions, simple icon library for typical functions and useful templates are all available- even in the free version. My only complaint and is that the web version is a little laggy at times but it’s not horrible. Another great feature is that your prototypes can be designed on the web and then run on your device. A great app/service that is uncluttered and allows you to focus on design.

PRO: So far pretty much the same. Removing the layers in Marvel’s version of <Inspect> which is called <Handoff> is simpler because developers can just click an image and download. I find synching to be pretty fast. A more robust folder creation would be fantastic. CON Handoff won’t support PSDs. My Designers would love to only use Sketch but we have to be flexible. Sometimes our clients send PSDs. PSDs can still be dragged into Marvel for posting but not for capturing specs. Sort of slows things down for Developers.

When using the app, in front if all your templates when viewing them have a purple box, which wont disappear, that obstructs your view from the center off all the screens. Other than that the website version is incredibly helpful. It also has a some bugs like after making a copy of screen “1” when you go back to view screen “1”, it only shows a white page so you have to make another copy and replace the original screen that you copied.