An in-depth look at the tools and process design teams use for asset creation, prototype creation, design asset storage, prototype sharing, and challenges in the process.

1. Greylock Partners
Prototyping Process Survey Results
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Chris McCann

2. Survey Background
• 33 participants
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• 40% B2B | 84% B2C*
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• Designer Team Sizes:
3% 1 design team member
31% 2-5 | 28% 5-10
12% 10-25 | 13% 25-50
13% 50+
*companies can list as both B2B and B2C

3. Other
Photoshop
Sketch
Illustrator
Asset Creation Tools
• 50% of designers use more
than one tool, 34% sketch only.
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• 71% of B2B designers using
Sketch
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• 72% of designers are designing
for both web and mobile, 9%
web only

4. Other
Keynote
Invision
Framer
Flinto
Prototype Creation Tools
• 75% of designers use more
than one prototyping tool
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• Framer/InVision is most popular
combo.
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• No set prototyping tool, lots of
designers using Pixate, HTML,
Bootstrap, Avacado, etc.

5. Other
Google Drive
Dropbox
Box
Prototype/Asset Storage
• Dropbox is the clear leader for
storing prototypes and asset
files - 77%
• More sensitive prototypes will
host on internal servers.
• 0% of B2B companies host on
Box.

6. Coding Involved in Prototypes
• Responses are all over the place.
• “Consensus” is very little programming and if so most of it is in the
animations and interactions.
• A few complex or data intensive apps needed more coding involved.

7. Sharing prototypes
• Responses are all over the place.
• “Consensus” is in person or over company communication channels
(Slack, WebEx). Typical is to share the Invision or Framer link. (Check
out wake.io)
• Hard part is collecting the feedback and making changes to the initial
prototype. Much of that is taken in notes, person, docs, etc. (Check out
Red Pen)

8. Biggest frustrations with Prototyping process
• Easily communicate prototype (flow + animations) without needing a lot
of coding.
• Very time consuming. Ex. Framer is great but steep learning curve.
• Difficultly of moving from prototype to implementation, having spec for
engineers. (Avocode)
• Too many disparate tools makes process cumbersome. Asset creation,
flow, and animation should be in one tool.

9. Greylock Partners
Prototyping Process Survey Results
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Chris McCann