Behance – Creative Portfolios Reviews

by Parisa 9521

I changed my adobe I’d password today, and now this app won’t let me login.
Using Behance truly tests my patience as it is super slow, the platform is nice and there are many artists to follow here but Behance lagging at literally everything is making it hard for people to keep using it. I don’t understand why developer isn’t taking care of this matter. Here we are ranting with all our might yet it’s falling to deaf ears. Also, projects don’t load, artist’s pages don’t load either. If I’m lucky then maybe, otherwise not. Moreover, uploading a project became too difficult as the buttons for publish and preview were dead.
I’m very annoyed at this point.

by Appmasta

Behance is a complete joke - without a doubt one of the worst and most useless app designs I’ve ever used. It’s designed like Instagram - to try to hook you with stories and other features that work great for them, but are completely useless for a site that helps people discover creative work. The discover and search sections page are hidden in Behance !

The sad thing is that the old app was great. This team must be completely asleep at the wheel. Advice: look at the other reviews that say the same thing - this is the worst product ever released- then delete Behance project. Revert it to the old version. Then let whoever thought this was a good idea go.

by T_todd

The old product was much more useful. I could easily browse projects and not feel overwhelmed with these new stories and a social feed.

This isnt instagram. This is a place to dive deep into high quality work and discover artists and designers. Completely copying Instagram’s UX makes no sense in context of what myself and many others use this app for.

Some constructive design feedback: 1. use a 2 column grid for projects. It used to be much easier to browse multiple projects at once. 2. Get rid of stories. This shouldn't be an app to post ephemeral content. 3. Why is posting a project the main call to action?? This could significantly reduce the quality of the the posted projects. this app will become just like Dribbble which is not a good thing.

by Omfgus

The community is great, but some things in Behance could really improve.

The collections are sorted in a seemingly random way, so whenever I want to save a project to a collection I have to go through my whole list of collections to find it, and they’re always in a different place. I’d prefer if it were in alphabetical order, or if I could chose the order that they appear.

I can’t seem to clear notifications. No matter what I do, opening the notifications, deleting them... whenever I open Behance it shows that I have new notifications, which are always the same.

by Nergon

Behance would be fantastic if not for the fact that when watching any of Adobe’s live streams, the video refreshes every several seconds, causing the feed to go blank and a couple seconds later reappear, causing a few seconds of sometimes valuable information to just be lost. Opening a live stream in a browser as an alternative works until you sign in to the chat at which point you are redirected automatically to Behance and therefore the buggy video feed. So the best experience is just on a desktop in a browser in order to avoid Behance. If this bug could get fixed, the experience would be about perfect. So much really great content.

by Aforadultery

Behance has potential to be good. It really does!
Just a few weird things I have found so far:
When you’re browsing through the search function, you can’t just “like” something unless you go to the creator’s profile and find the project. I get that everything is split into projects with multiple items within each, but I guess there was an easier way to interact with creator’s pieces.
Also, I cannot check my notifications. It keeps telling me I have two notifications, but when I select the notification bell, it prompts me to upload a project. Completely glitched out. I’m going to try to reinstall, but not hopeful

by Jessibravo

I gave you three stars today because, your app is great but I find the community stale and not all the great, and I think that it’s not the community’s fault but the developers. If Behance was designed in more of an Instagram style (and I know it’s a professional app but still) maybe some smaller artist could get some more recognition along with some bigger graphic designers and others. The layout is a bit overwhelming and hard to follow. I don’t like the way you have the page set up for the art and that could be fixed. Please fix this

by 3mm3 82

I would use Behance a whole lot more if the user experience wasn’t this bad. If I see project I like while I am scrolling down, I would expect to simply click on it and open. No way. By the time I reached the bottom of a page (where the other projects are), the project I am in shuts down, so I have to do the whole process all over again, up to 3/4 times, just to be able to open something I had previously noticed. I am sure this can be fixed!
It would be so worth it

by Angel Alesse

I love Behance, however Behance performance is an issue. I’m always experiencing the difficulty to access a certain creative field or finding conceptualists in experiential projects. Rather the website at choice but it is less functional than the this app app. I see that searching for things on app brings up most of photography, I have to spend a lot of time trying to dig for content or a certain demographic no matter who I follow. Behance also tends to move in slow motion on to blank, freeze and cut off at a certain amount of time of scrolling for those fields at any given time. The works me to move through and up keeping through my appreciations which drives me nuts no matter how much Behance has me on a love hold .

by Astrid User

I feel like Behance has a lot of potential.

But I’m not sure I understand the home tab. It feels like a regurgitated version of the search tab. On the home tab, I’m looking at works that don’t even interest me. The feed are a collection of accounts I don’t follow or are even interested in. Is there not a way to curate this feed?

And normally I would just over look this if I can access a list of accounts that I have followed, but appears that I can’t even do that.

Then I thought, I’ll just use the moodboard feature but now I’m discovering that I can’t remove projects, only add.

I was hoping Behance would be a place of inspiration tailored specifically to my interests but instead I’m looking at projects that are tagged with hashtags that sometimes have no business using that hashtag. I’m not against a tab for discovery, but a hint of personalization would go a long way.

So this is why I rarely use Behance. It’s possible that I’m using Behance all wrong but I hope you see where I’m coming from.

by Kastriot Qerimi

Cant see a couple of my projects, Behance crashes for some reason when watching those same projects time and time again. Issue still persists even after a couple of updates.

I don’t recommend anybody to edit their projects on Behance . Do that on the web as it deleted a lot of my projects. All i did was just delete some text and after i pressed “publish” (there wasnt a “save” option like on the web) half of my projects got deleted.

by BronzMan1

this app has been such a great work place for me. It's given me the wonderful and authentic experience to display my work, as well as influence. I've met people who are kind and helpful. There are endless amounts of ideas out there and this app gives the platform to share. However as of recent Everytime I attempt to go to my portfolio of any portfolio Behance crashes. Why? I don't understand. I can't look any projects and is frustrating. I've logged off, undocked it, deleted it and restarted and NOTHING!

by Sage Callisto

I have been a member of this app and using it since it was created. Also been an adobe fan since the dawn of time.

I love this network, but Behance could use two very small improvements in my opinion:
1. I don’t like having to scroll up to add a project to my collection. How would I know if I want to add it to a collection before I’ve scrolled through it?

2. I don’t like having to tap done on the phone after choosing which collection it goes in. iPad solution to this is better tap tap and then tap off of it. Could do something similar with swipes on the phone.

In general, I think all like, add to collection, follow, etc should be at the bottom (maybe as well as the top) as it makes sense in the flow of how you use it.

Other than that, love the redesign and thanks for your work on the network and app.

by Juan Crescimone

If you born in the 90’s or after, you couldn’t imagine how tough was being a creative before those years, but if you born in the 80’s like me or before, you are really going to appreciate the existence of a virtual place like this app.

this app is not only a social media for designers or professionals of the creative disciplines, this app is a democratic place to share knowledge. For the first time in history, they create a this app way to show a project, a storytelling, and a way to curate like in a “virtual art gallery”.

Thanks Adobe to buy this app and have invested in those Spanish guys who transformed the way of creatives lives.

by @qrioart

I had the chance to visit Adobe a handful of times in past years and it always amazes me how these individual programs and business units all work so seamlessly together. It’s all so cohesive.

Adobe, you are a brilliant brand and company. And this is a great app as expected. I especially love/d this app on the AppleTV and would like to suggest you maybe offer the ability to use it as a screensaver at some point.

Thank you for keeping us inspired!

by Kayla0725

But Behance has never worked properly. Every time I click a notification it goes to the page but will not load it. The post remains blank. Then I have to go to the main feed and the post disappears unless I take the work to search for it, but sometimes I can’t recall the exact wording of the post or which blog it’s on and can’t find it.. happens every time.

by AkiraPatten

I have just downloaded Behance and decided to create an account with my Facebook account. I went through the process and it said everything worked. I was able to check out everyone’s work but it wouldn’t load my profile at all and said there was an error. Thinking I could just log out and log back in, it still didn’t work so I chose to create one with my email- still didn’t work and it did the same thing.

by Nobody Who

The latest version of the this app mobile app is pretty trusty and reliable. My only complaint about this version is that animated gifs don’t play correctly in Behance , as they do in a browser. You have to click and expand to get them to play, which means the user has to know its a gif in advance or be interested enough in the image to expand.

Hopefully this will be fixed in future updates.

by Great App!! Really Cool!

I love this app soooo much.

My number one place that shows me unique artists work and inspiration when I have an idea. Sometimes I get an idea, or a feeling and I want to put it in an art project but I don’t know how to do it or what to do so I search for a topic on this app and there’s hundreds of amazing art that inspires me to do better and hundreds of ideas that I can implement in my art.

My downside is that sometimes it lags, and crashes but it’s probably because of my iPhone 7 sooo i don’t know. When I watch a live stream, it crashes after 2 minutes of watching.

Other than that, I really enjoy this app on my iPhone when I’m on the go or the web version when I’m on my pc.

Thanks so much adobe for inspiring me to do better and help Express my self.

by LisaMuro

I love this app, it a wonderful platform and great art community. The pop up that you have to rate this app in my iPhone & iPad is not giving enough time for those who would like to rate. It took me many tries to select rate now. I thought you would want to know in case the ratings are down, it’s likely people need a little more time :)

by P29468

The giant tiles make trying to look through a feed of projects much worse. Being able to look and survey many projects all at once, like on the website, was one of the key reasons for having Behance . The ability to have access to all of those resources on the fly was valuable. Now Behance is pointless, especially when this app has a separate app that does a better job at showcasing your own work. Overall terrible UI update, it should have at least brought with it the option for larger or smaller tile view

by Kohakoa

Everything the person said before me was spot on. I love this app I live and love everything about this app. So it pains me to rate it 2 stars. But I rate it 2 stars because since the update I haven’t really been using Behance because I always get stuck in a piece of artwork. And since I’m not using it as often as I would, considering I post art work nearly everyday. It can’t be 5 stars. Everything else it great. But those issues the review posted before me we spot on. Please fix this. We need it ASAP.

by Kitkatsplash18

Love Behance except when I follow someone, the follow button shows “followed” and then reverts back to “follow.” When I return to that person’s page it’s no longer says followed. I can’t keep track! Also, when I click the “like” button on a project it registers and then disappears. So if I return to that page, I can’t tell if I’ve liked the project. Every update helps but this issue is never corrected.

by JTR Gaming

Awesome app, not familiar with any features to build my portfolio on here thought. Have to go on desktop version which isn’t always available to me as I am on the move often.

Also have had some glitches happen when I try to share content I find and Behance ends up crashing. Aside from that, great app.

P.S. is there a job search feature on here like the desktop version or LinkedIn? That would be good.

by PixStunnr

Used to love layout of this app. Straddled the line between a buffet and a curation. Now they adopted this new UI trend of big round boxes and the experience is kinda ruined. Because it’s one project per screen instead of two - I put in the same effort to go through half as many projects. Its like I have to be engaged with that project when really I just want to survey them and engage with ones that pique my interest.

by NastyNate501

I really enjoy this app for the sheer fact that you can find and discover such an array of amazing artwork that spans many genres. It also offers established and new artists a platform to display their art and receive thoughtful and constructive feedback from their peers. The ability to watch Adobe Live is also a huge plus. Keep up the great work with Behance!

by DiFF_Proj

Really like the mobile app comparing to desktop. But now in the project the gif becomes still image unless you view it in the slideshow mode. Will this lost feature come back? Can the gifs auto play in project layout again? Please let me know if this is just my phone.