What is it?
Alloy is an AI-powered solution that shows you possible prototypes based on your website and its layout. Its purpose is to quickly give you insights into how your app would look with additional components or different layouts, saving you countless development hours. Alloy’s concepts can then be shared with your team, with over 20 app integrations facilitating both idea accumulation and prototype sharing.
How It Works
The entire Alloy system integrates into your browser with just a few clicks. From there, it can scan your website or app, taking note of the overall visualization and architecture. Once it has your style and components down, you can prompt it with instructions regarding new features via a generic AI input box. Alloy will then show you what your new feature would look like when integrated into your existing product, making your prototyping faster and project management easier.
Moreover, you can integrate Alloy with over 20 development industry-relevant solutions, including Slack. Alloy will then capture ideas, insights, and customer requests from these solutions, making further prototyping a breeze. The prototypes, while showcasing your potential product, do not include any code.
Highlights
- Integrates with your web browser for lightweight usage.
- Prompts do not have to be specialized; plain language suffices.
- Prototypes can instantly be shared with your team.
- Feedback from team members and customers can be shared with the AI.
- The AI can learn from existing documentation, including chats in Slack and tickets in Jira.
- It can be integrated with over 20 solutions to capture feedback and insights.
Use Cases
Are you a product manager who wants to prototype quickly? Have Alloy scan your website and feed it your ideas, insights, customer requests, and prompts to seamlessly showcase possible improvements to your product.
Do you want to get a new client by showing them possible product improvements? Simply add Alloy to your browser, visit their website or digital app, and have the AI produce prototypes. You can then share these with your team, integrate your team’s feedback, and send the potential client a strong offer.
Are you a designer with no coding knowledge? Take an existing website along with its styling and have Alloy create prototypes of different new appearances. Evolve the latter with additional prompts and push your prototype closer to your vision.
Accessibility and Developer Options
Conventional Alloy users cannot see the code and files that are generated for prototype visualization. However, you can contact the team behind Alloy, and they will help you get further insights. Insights can also be acquired from direction integrations with Slack, Jira, Notion, and other team and ticket management solutions.
Compatibility
Alloy does not rely on any specific operating system, since the entire solution is hosted in your Chrome browser. You can, therefore, use it on your preferred device, even mobile ones. Moreover, macOS and Windows have dedicated desktop applications, with iOS and Android soon getting their distributions. But that is not all! The solution can also read correspondence and take tickets as well as customer insights into account. However, the solution currently is not compatible with Figma designs, which are being integrated at the time of this review.
Company
The company behind Alloy is called Index, with some of its leading members being Simon Kubica, Leo Denham, Christian Iacullo, and Leosha Trushin. These are also the people that you will most likely interact with when reaching out for special deals or developer integrations.
