TrustRadius Insights for Craft are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Sync Feature: Users have praised the seamless functionality of Craft's 'Sync' feature, which flawlessly syncs their artboards to Invision. Many reviewers appreciate that once the plugin is set up, they can forget about tinkering with settings and trust that it will work seamlessly.
Library Feature: The 'Library' feature in Craft receives positive feedback for its ability to generate style guides from design documents. With just one click, users can create succinct documents to share with teammates and other teams, making collaboration easier.
Data Feature: Multiple users express satisfaction with Craft's 'Data' feature, as it effectively approximates real data into static designs. Reviewers find it helpful for validating rough designs using actual content approximation, eliminating the need for manual data entry.
It was used only within the digital department to manage the roadmap of the banking app. It was used to document high-level requirements and prioritize features.
Pros
User story mapping feature allows users to easily ensure features are not missed.
Screen design annotations inbuilt into feature document.
Product roadmap can be sliced and diced in different ways.
Cons
Wish there was a way to export a graphical view of the story map.
Sometimes the side navigation panels get in the way.
Likelihood to Recommend
Useful to keep a centralized repository of all requirements. Ensure you have clear product ownership in place.
We were using Craft.io to organize some of our games in a more product-focused way. We were using Craft to map the story mapping for our games and to understand and prioritize all the features that we wanted to release in some prototypes. After some time using the tool we changed for a more traditional project management tool.
Pros
Craft is built to digital products developers, so its workflow is great.
It has a very nice interface and is a beautiful tool.
Cons
It has a great workflow, but it is very little customizable.
The tool is not so easy to use, so you have to take a time to get to know it.
Likelihood to Recommend
Craft.io is well suited for medium to large digital product teams that have some experience with the tools and features of the agile and lean models. Users that are new to those methodologies can have some difficulties understanding the platform. It is less appropriate for small projects too. It's a great tool but I think you can shape a project management tool to your needs in theses cases and it will work better.
We use craft in many ways, but we primarily use 'Craft Sync' as a way to sync our work from Sketch to Invision, but also as a way to share design work to other departments that might be stakeholders in the projects. It helps solve a significant gap in collaboration by instantly allowing for both sharing of life designs, as well as feedback through Invision by the other stakeholders. We also use 'Craft Library' as a way to quickly generate brand guidelines and share symbols libraries and sticker sheets.
Pros
'Sync' usually works flawlessly in syncing my artboards to Invision. Once you set up the plugin, I can easily forget about tinkering with any of the settings - it just 'works'.
'Library' is pretty great for generating a style guide from my design doc. Clicking one button makes magic happen, and creates a super succinct document for me to share between teammates and other teams.
'Data' also works wonders when trying to approximate 'real' data into a static design. It turns the painful job of having to fill in designs with 'real-world' data a piece of cake. It helps me validate rough designs using an actual approximation of real content.
Cons
Craft frequently crashes - either the plugin for Sketch, or Sketch itself. Sometimes I have to turn off the plugin completely in order to be of sound mind that things won't crash. But frequent updates usually take care of any short term issues here.
The 'Stock' option is great to grab a quick image for a design, but I would love to see the functionality in here expand to even more options, more services, and more filters so I can get what I need even faster and more accurately.
'Library' works great in its own ecosystem, but updating symbols and the like is somewhat manual and time consuming. I have to constantly ensure everything that needs to be in-sync, stays in-sync.
Likelihood to Recommend
Craft is really well suited for any size design team - I have used it within a team of 3, and within a team of 30.
It helps with collaboration within the team, and between external teams through 'sync' with Invision.
It increases efficiency of using Sketch with things like 'data', 'duplicate', and 'stock'. These tools not only make designing faster, but also more realistic, allowing us to 'test' our designs sooner.
