HotGloo vs. UXPin

HotGloo is well suited to a dispersed team of users who are looking to collaboratively wireframe and prototype their latest web solutions. It's extremely intuitive and comes with a large widget library meaning the newest user can be up and running very quickly. In browser access means it's extremely accessible whether you're working in a room together or across the country at home.

Incentivized

If you're a very simple designer, with very simple requirements UXPin is very good, especially because you can share the designs very easily. If you are an advanced designer with specific client requirements never use UXPin. Don't even get started because you will waste your time. Example is their component feature, it has a lot, but misses very crucial aspects to be functional on a broader scale.

• Elements Library
• Symbols Library
• Interface supports workflow

Incentivized

• Collaboration with teammates.
• Rapid prototyping.
• Design Systems.
• JSON File for content importing.
• Bulk editing via library components.
• Interactions, and micro UX.
• Sharing and requesting feedback.
• Version branching.
• Spec mode for developers (access to assets).
• Automatically produced visual style guide with fonts, colors, and imported assets.
• Imports from sketch while keeping the shapes, colors, and fonts fully editable.
• Boolean Pen (bezzier pen) for vector drawing, and pathfinder.
• Annotation capability via documentation mode.
• Password protect prototypes.
• Upload custom fonts (enterprise, or Pro version is key imho).
• 1,000s of built in icons (iOS, Android, Font Awesome etc).
• Prebuilt design component libraries (Material Design, Booptstrap, iOS).
• Video tutorials in-app.
• Moderate learning curve - UI is familiar, and customizable.
• Copy/paste interactions, and element properties.
• Canvas properties (grids, adaptive screen sizes, scrolling).
• Asynchronous Spell check.
• UXPin's customer support is top tier.

• logical structure of interface objects
• preview view does not scale frame on small screens
• Tool ribbon

Incentivized

• Sometimes, it can be a bit buggy and slow if the prototype is complex with dozens of layers.
• The learning curve can be steep the first time you use it. Or, if you haven't used the app for awhile; I sometimes need to relearn it if I haven't used it for a month or so.
• The loading times can be quite slow where a page gets stuck. It would be great if this didn't happen.

Incentivized

We'll definitely continue to use UXPin. Right now it provides us with everything we need in order to deliver quality projects to our clients. If at any point in time, UXPin doesn't provide us with what we need, we'll start vetting other software out there that may be similar. My guess is that UXPin will continue to make updates and improvements so we'll likely stick with it for quite some time.

Incentivized

As far as I know, my teams have only had to use the UXPin support once. The experience went really well. We just needed a bit of assistance with using the Documentation feature. UXPin's support was quick and helped my team in a matter of minutes. We will definitely reach out to their support without hesitation in the future.

Incentivized

HotGloo is tailored to this use case and therefore considers the right user needs. I think one strength is that it focuses on the main aspect. There are other tools, that have more extensive features. However, those are then more complex and not so well made for the specific work I use it for. Thus, I like HotGloo also because of the element and symbols library. Which has the right depth and detail - no more, no less then needed.

Incentivized

I went through several tools trying to find something that was easy to use and made me faster. Visio was such a pain at creating something reusable to make me faster, too much building. Axure and Balsamiq looked like great options but were too cumbersome for my needs and I couldn't get to the live link fast enough. Moqups was my first choice before I heard about UXPin. I switched to UXPin because the had more built in features, more icons and just an overall better and more usable interface that appealed to my design side.

Incentivized

• Build more wireframes quicker and deliver to client and provide options.

Incentivized

• Saving money by using one tool for lo-fi wireframing, high fidelity wireframing, prototyping, and user testing, rather than four separate tools.
• The ability to create and use team libraries enables us to create visually consistent designs with less effort than creating every single design from scratch, which allows us to save considerable time (and therefore money!)
• In-platform collaboration saves our team a lot of time and energy. With everything in one place (wireframes, prototypes, user feedback, collaboration comments), we can all be on the same page about the design workflow and pinpoint discussion points that are based on up-to-date designs.

Incentivized