Problems with client presentation and prototypes

I am also struggling with transitioning over from using Sketch instead of Invision for client sharing/prototyping. It seems alright for sharing mobile designs, but I do a lot of responsive web design, and for sharing desktop mockups there seems to be much less control over zoom settings. Reading through this thread did help clear up some of the view/zoom settings you can choose that weren’t obvious to me at first, but setting options are still limited. For example if my mockups are created at 1440px wide I have three zoom options, each with their own issues:

  • “Actual size” works well but can be an issue because there is always a chance that clients may have a smaller monitor in which case part of the design would be cut off for them.
  • “Fill width” kind of has the opposite issue, it works well for anyone with smaller screens, however users with large monitors will see the design scaled/stretched way up making it hard for them to tell what actual size is.
  • “Fit” does not work well at all for desktop mockups. Because desktop page mockups are typically very tall, designs are going to display much smaller than 100%.

The ideal setting, which was an option in Invision, would be to display the designs at 100% but never bigger than 100% and then scale down the design if a user had a browser smaller than the design.

The other thing I struggle with is that unless I deselect the toolbar and navigation when sharing prototype links clients can in theory see the entire file when I really only want them to see specific prototypes.

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