Wanted to try it out but its still Mac only :( Figma is perfect for what we do but wanted to try the animation feature set.

I use Studio for InVision Studio production work :D

I’m Charles, a designer on the Studio design team. (Designer designing designs for designers)

To give an update on a few themes here...

Performance We have huge, huge updates to the overall performance of Studio. Our team have worked some engineering magic over the last week, the app feels buttery smooth with these updates that are in the upcoming releases. We work directly with people that have unperformant files and it’s been a massive help to our team, so thank you for sending them over to us.

Bugs Where!? Find them. Kill them.

Our team are churning through bugs and all of the feedback that we’re picking up from all of you fantastic people. We really are listening and paying close attention to everything you’re saying and experiencing. We’ve put our all into this product and it’s getting more and more polished by the minute thanks to everyone’s involvement in this early access period.

Here’s to a solid v1 launch. Thank you all!

I love you.

My DM’s are forever open @charlespattson

InVision Studio is in better shape than XD was when Adobe opened it to early access, but it's still not ready for production work.

I dont think its a good idea to get started with IS for production since the application is still in production. For time being i am using Sketch. Adobe XD can also be a good alternative.

While they are definitely making progress on Studio, I would not yet recommend using it for production work. There are certainly some kinks that need to be worked out first. Don't design anything in Studio that you're not prepared to lose or redesign.

I'm hoping it's ready for production work sometime this summer, though. :)

It feels like there are tons of core features missing. Sketch e.g. was already kinda bad at typography features, but Studio isn't even there yet. A lot of workflow enhancements are simply not there (I don't know how detailed I can go here, given the NDA) and some design choices seem not yet to support the claim to be the best design tool there is. I hope it's getting there, I've been fanboying since the first announcement ;-)

However, it's not ready for productive use. I've been giving it a shot today again (after the update) and it felt like the Adobe XD previews: I want to do something, but the tools seem to be missing or just don't work as smooth as in Sketch or Figma (using both here). I know, it's early access... but I am pretty disappointed by everything else than the prototyping features. That's a core feature, sure... but if it takes me twice the time to build what I want to animate it just doesn't work out. Maybe the team can elaborate on something like typography, layout/grids etc. ...

Nope, but I made a cool button that switches from green to grey.

Wait until not in early access. Don't forget the NDA the current form has.

Seeing as though I still can't figure out how to use it, no. Also, I can hardly see any of the icons because the contrast and font sizes are so small, so it takes like three times as long to do anything that I could do in Flinto or Framer.

It would be very stupid to do so, considering how unusable it is at the moment. But, if you have a lot of internal patient, do it ;) it is just a tool, shitty so far, but only a tool. good luck mate!

Nope, I opened it for 5 minutes and I could just tell its not stable at all yet. Haven't opened it since. Maybe experiment with it but nothing else.

Hey Dino,

We are using Figma and Haiku combined and it’s amazing.

Our studio was purely Sketch, Zeplin, After effects based, but now Figma & Haiku massively speed up our workflow.

Both are way more friendly as you can get JSON, React code.

Hope that helps!

Stu

nice jk mate

Have in mind that Studio is still in early access and has to prove its worth. Also, I'm not sure how keen are design teams to switch their workflow (again) in the last few years.

As long as this battle of design tools rages on, me (personally) and design team I'm currently a part of isn't really hyped much about any of the tools right now.

Just waiting for the right one to emerge :)

Nope. Cannot trust it in it's current state - far too unstable, have had a couple of crashes. Stick with your current flow and come back to it in a few months.

I echo the sentiment of the other people commenting here, I will use it just for fun projects or to prototype an interaction that is part of a larger sketch project.

I'm testing it right now for a small internal project at November Five. I think there's great potential but at the moment it's lacking some essential and basic features which prevent me from using it for larger projects. Mostly because i can't keep track of text styles or the fact i'm struggling with the 'component' feature (='Symbols' in Sketch). Besides that it's also pretty buggy at times.

Being the 'Most powerful screen design tool' is a pretty cool tagline but there's still some work to do to live up to that. Let's hope they do because i'm curious how this 'all-in-one design tool' thing will turn out and if it can really help us be more effective, save time and simplify handover to development.

Currently not. There is still much to do, workflow wise. Some Shortcuts are not working also no bool selection for now. Also no SVG export which is a no go. I wouldn't recommend to use it for production. It might be ready in a year, maybe more then a year...