Frontify Reviews

It's an easy-to-use software, self-explaining and almost endless option to use. The content are easily maintained, changes and updates are done immediately. The management of the user groups, user rights and the targets are very smart. It's a great software for all the needs of a brand portal: for guidelines as well as icon, media and document libraries. And it's perfect for all those who have multiple brands to manage.

Some functionalities in the presentation of the content can be improved, e.g. using tables

There are many departments in my company that need a lot of banner designs, so I made templates that are easy to use and saves me a lot of time. My colleagues are very happy with this and it gives them the freedom of making their own banners when they need it. Also with the approval feature, I can check if the brand guidelines are respected.

Hopefully one day we could be able to implement Adobe illustrator files instead of sketch. Our company uses a lot of vectors and illustrations, so it would be nice to be able to change/edit those in the publisher.

That anyone on the team can use the software to update guidelines, control the CMS system, and deploy updated content.

There is a bit of a learning curve, especially on the admin side.

With our Brand Portal (frontify), we have one global platform for everything around our brand and its design. The platform has been implemented in August 2019 and is globally available for our 30k employees. They have access to all style guides, an asset library with more than 60k assets, as well as many other important brand topics and elements. The platform is managed by our global Brand & Corp. Design as well as UX team. Maintaining, adapting and updating the platform is as easy as 123. The system is pretty self-explanatory, easy-to-use and to navigate.

At the moment, we're only using the Style Guides and Icon Library products. Both products work very well and comply with our expectations and needs. The two products Publisher and Media Library are currently tested and reviewed. Compared to other products in the market, the Publisher feature from Frontify is not as sophisticated as expected though. Other than that, we're really satisfied with the products and service from Frontify. Also, we've received fantastic feedback from all around the world - our regional and local Brand & Design team are very happy with the platform.

Frontify is very easy to set up. In no time we had our structure for our product design system up and running. It's very easy to switch between edit and view modes. The text formatting options and the blocks offered make it very simple to create the specifications for components and share them with the development team.

What I am missing is a way to collaborate in real time with others on the same page in Frontify. I would also like more block options to help explain more detailed interactions in a more visual way (for example I really like the Dos and Don'ts block and would like more options like that). A comment function would also be interesting as well as more sub-navigation options within pages.

User-friendly and looks current! Not getting complaints from agencies.

Unable to upload all types of files, but there's a good selection that works.

Frontify helped us to better organise our brand materials throughout the company. It's a platform easy to use that alows you centralize all your content virtually.

It has been a great experience so far. No problems at all.

Ease of use and then sharing across thousands of staff and external contractors across a large geographical location.

Nothing stands out at the moment as problelmatic

Super easy to create the source of truth for your orgs branding and share with others. I plan to continue to use or encourage using Frontify in all of my future workplaces, as every place needs structure and organization for their design systems.

I wish there was a way for users who aren't admin members to invite others within their organization to their style guides. It makes it tough when only one person has admin access and you need to request everytime you want to add somebody.

Frontify is a great tool for any company, it has a great UI, this makes it very easy to use for beginners. But Frontify has a lot of functionalities which also makes it great for advanced users.

I can't think of anything that I dislike about Frontify. Never experienced any bugs.

Setting up a site to manage and control access to our brand guidelines was extremely simple with Frontify. It took very little training to be able to utilize the features in our package, as well.

I suppose there might have been some limitations around some of the core platform's templates but that didn't necessarily impact our use of the tool.
I tend to think brand management software like this is typically more important for B2C companies than B2B ones but our use of Frontify was definitely successful, especially after going through a brand refresh and needing to ensure adherence to new corporate standards.

That it manages several aspects of a brand and keeps them in one place, in a neat and good looking way that's easily accessible and editable.

Some of the minor user interactions aren't completely smooth and there are some minor bugs.

It makes our brand looks consistent and accessible in all the organization. Have everything that we need to control our brand identity and share it with other also externally. 
I love the support of the team and how they listen to our needs. This is so important to me.

The fact that some times there are small bugs (ex. downloads of some templates), but they are fixed really quickly.

The best functions that we use with this platform are the digitized brand manuals as well as the media library, both fully functional and very easy to use.

Other aspects that could be improved: include other languages or improving / updating the tutorial videos as well as the statistical reports of the platform.

It's very easy to use and the usability is great. The employees get on very well with Frontiy and no major instructions are needed. It simplifies many processes and is very helpful when working with partners. It saves a lot of time to maintain guidelines and assets on the plattform. The support is very fast an reliable. Frontify is very responsive to customer requests.

The integration took a little more time, but that was mainly due to our previous solution. But Frontify was able to solve it very well.

Frontify really supports me as a designer and helps me and my company to preserve and improve our corporate design guidelines and brand awareness. Although the product was great from the beginning they are constantly adding cool new features and functionality to make the product even better.

Since Frontify introduced the DAM module I have no cons anymore :-), before it was quite a task to manage all the digital assets and keep them up to date

The image database and the style guide help our zoo enormously to have an overview of the different designs and also to be able to check again and again in the team how everything was defined in the CICD. The image database is huge for us, but thanks to good keywording it is still easy to use.

Simple and straightforward to understand, usable without much introduction - even for users without much prior knowledge.

easy to use, very flexible, new and required features are coming up very quickly

could have more APIs for 3rd party creative tools

Frontify is a great brand and digital asset management software. It's very clear and easy to use for designers and non-designers.

There are no obvious cons to using Frontify.

Involves the entire organization: In order to create an on-brand presentation, users need the template, images, icons, font etc. That's how Frontify sneaks into the daily business of all employees.

It is not fully mature. Some features are not fully integrated, functionality does not allow granular configuration. Some processes are not (yet) fully thought through.

Ability to access all information for all brands in one platform.

Trying to utiize for content reviews in the same manner we have today - but system enhancements are coming that may allow this functionality.

It's very easy to learn and to understand. Further, you can easily share the content with others and you even find the needed topic very quickly. The software is very handy and enables the possibility to explain the brand in a good way. And I'm sure, we still do not use every option Frontify has on offer.

There is nothing to mention. I am very happy with it. What I could mention is that we do not use every feature and we should really change that.

atomic design principle, version history of layouts, easy handling by drag & drop feateures, easy annotating, customization, easy style guide options.

I like the easy usability of this software.

The most difficult point was the preparation of a legally compliant processing contract under Article 28 of the basic data protection regulation

This software is very fast and easy to use.

There's nothing I don't like. Whatever I have suggested, Frontify has been eager to dig into and solve most of it.