Yes, it was unbearable for me to use. They need to concentrate on the performance aspect before anything else.

I wish they'd stop touting it as the world's most powerful screen design tool. Sketch kicks its butt—and Illustrator outperform both of them. "Most powerful" isn't the same as "most usable". Sketch figured that out. Figma too.

They really haven't earned that level of hyperbole yet—from almost any homegrown product (prototyping was amazing circa 2015 and has since languished behind feature creep and thirsty roadmap).

I truly wish you guys luck in figuring this out but you kind of dug your own grave here (Not to be outdone I suspect the team behind Phase has the same over-hype problem, btw)

For me, a major design tool needs to be around for a few years before I even consider using the thing. I don't know how else to navigate this flooded landscape.

I used Invision for years to prototype. Long sessions were generally laggy somewhat. I expect much the same, if not worse for Studio.

Figma though...

Studio is as bad as their web services for me. Not a real surprise.

Hey Ryan! Bummed it’s so laggy for you! We are working crazy hard on Studio’s performance. What machine are you running it on? I would love to connect you with someone from our Studio team to dig into the issue. It so important for us that Studio is crazy fast.

Kris with InVision

This is totally understandable.

Like the other fake/web-based "apps" f.e. figma, framer, the performance is the issue. The problem is with the BRIDGE constantly processing information back and forward (especially animations), so when you are dragging something (like the artboard - OMG!), the whole calculations are done in the js side. After the processing is complete the data going to the native site via the BRIDGE. This is happening for every FPS. So you should feel that the apps are slower, and also less responsive. This is the primary concern of the technology, so don't expect they will fix that in near days/weeks ;)

This is why I don't use design software based on the web technology (If I don't have to), it looks excellent on marketing images, but in the real world scenario, it's unusable. I have tested all of them using MacPro (trashcan), hi-end MBP and many iMacs (not the iMac Pro tho), same results. If you are ok with the performance FLAWS, God bless you :) those are great apps.

Have you ever wonder why those companies/products like Framer, inVision Studio always making "presentation events" and not releasing the product itself to the public? (to us, designers to evaluate right away the product). That is why they need to persuade decision makers, team principles, you by sales talks (face to face). They acquiring industry faces to promote their products, etc. Marketing. Otherwise, everyone would shape their opinion based on firs feel, and that would be the end of those products.

Just imagine, how awesome those apps would be as a native app (SWIFT for the macOS), that would be amazing considering what those apps can do.

Slack (similar technology) is also slow and shitty, but you are not using it so heavily as you would use the design software (sketch, photoshop, etc.), so it can be slow. This technology is excellent, but for the right cases.

Hope in the near future those CRAPs will perform as they should (I wish that will finally happen!). And I know there are fantastic people behind those apps (the team of inVision, and Framer - love them all), they can do that! We need to give them time and wait for the better times.

So no, you don't need a better mac, you need to wait a bit until the technology is more mature ;)

Peace!

Studio is the laggiest design software I've ever used. By far. It is completely unusable.

They are pitching their "design platform" / API but nobody will use a product this slow and unreliable.

100% can barely do anything in it. Opened it up for the beta and immediately closed it when I experienced this. Haven't opened it since.

I have the same problem. Animating the most simple shapes everything ends up laggy and jumping around on a MacBookPro from late 2015 that shouldn't happen especially when sketch and other programs work so much smoother. I want to use studio but the laggy-ness kills my workflow and productivity.

Oh for sure. I won't use Studio for that exact reason.

I was so excited for Studio, I went to the demo in Amsterdam and waited quite a time for my invite to come in. And when it finally came in, I experienced all of this. Opened it a few times after that, still mostly the same. Never really used it either because of this. This is on a fully specced out MBP 15" 2017.

Hey, Ryan. It sucks that you're having this experience with Studio. What you're describing sounds really bizarre—dragging a simple shape shouldn't be lagging.

Could you tell me more about your system and the version of the app you have installed? Does this happen every time you create a new file or with a specific document? Maybe this can help us decipher what the problem could be.

We started a Facebook group where the team and the community using Studio is pretty active responding to questions. Maybe you wanna share your story there too.

Yeah it's been very bad lately. What is most frustrating that it is lagging on my iMac (2011), but it is working. On my Macbook Pro (2017) it does not load at all. I just stare on the loading thing forever.

You know what doesn't lag for me?

The Adobe Suite.

whistles

Pros and Cons: I really love this product since it made my animation practising easy. Most of the time I feel the product is bloated. Auto Link Layers in the animate window is not working since my last update. When I try to import file from Sketch It doesn't support blur and blending mode values. Prototypes are showing more latency while running in the app previewer.

Added Feature: Currently animation within a component cannot be done but adding such feature would greatly help for micro interaction where the animation doesn't have to rely at artboard levels(this feature is available in Principle app)

It's a beta program. What do you expect?

It's a WIP product, more than the others are. What I usually do: check if there are any new updates to the Studio, make some artboards, animate them, see the current situation and close. And that's all. Check where's the progress on their work. At least they didn't do as Adobe did with XD. Make it official, something that can't really be used in production work.

It's not just classical lags but just very low fps when moving around artboards and dragging elements. And low fps lead to a lower speed of user inputs (as the user adapts to slow software), making it just inefficient no matter the clever features it has.

It was built with Electron, which has very unsteady performance on macOS. Hopefully, they can build it with native completely, like Sketch.

What hardware are you using?

I used Studio for one fairly complex project on a 2015 MP Pro with no performance issues at all, found the whole experience to be pretty good. Missed some of my sketch plugins but that's about it.

Yep, really badly. I also get a strange blackout when flipping windows, which means I have to close and reopen the app (it happens a lot). Additionally, I get strange bugs on selecting elements, and the undo doesn't always work.

Obviously, it's still in Beta, so it's going to happen - they need to progressively smooth out the creases. For me though, it's too buggy to use as my primary prototyping tool, so I'm sticking with Sketch.

I had occasional performance issues a while back (the app cranked up the fans on the MBP) but it seems to be much better since then. Fired it up today with no lag at all on a 2015 MBP.

Running fine for me on a 2015 Macbook Pro. I might just be used to objects lagging behind my mouse because its like that in sketch too.

Yes absolutely, performance is very low of Invision Studio. The software looks really good, especially the dark interface which I personally prefer. But overall its difficult to perform simple tasks.

For example: I created a group of layers and turned that into a symbol, but then I wanted to ungroup it and add some other details. The software completely distorted all the layers once I ungrouped it.

I just exited the software after that.