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InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Post by whytaka »

InGodsName wrote: post #12

Hey UI/UX experts, I am wondering how should you go about mastering UI/UX of mobile app/web app. I've a girlfriend who wants to start in this area but is pretty clueless. Can anyone please provide a path to follow? Is this good: 1. Learn UI design in Paint.net/MS Paint 2. Read book on color theory, typography, whitespace 3. Design in dragdrop software like photoshop/illustrator 4. Learn CSS and recreate your design i…

My advice is to skip 1 and 2.

She should learn Photoshop/Illustrator (or equivalent software) and recreate famous interfaces. (Facebook, Google Docs, Gmail, etc.) If she can get them to be pixel perfect, she has enough technical skill and can start exploring.

She should work on industry tools right away. She should skip theory - she'll learn more from doing. She can go back to theory if she feels like she's missing something.

Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Post by porker »

etimberg wrote: post #20
reneherse wrote: post #11

Random question for anyone who uses InVision, as we're considering making it central to our process. Is it easy for frontend devs to recreate the designers' prototype in code? What pitfalls should we look out for?

If the designs are uploaded correctly, you can see CSS snippets for different UI elements. Definitely helps to recreate it faster.

Then none of the ones I've worked on have been uploaded correctly. They were always static PNGs of the design.

Now I start to understand why people like InVision! I've always preferred Avocode

Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Post by jdhn »

InGodsName wrote: post #12

Hey UI/UX experts, I am wondering how should you go about mastering UI/UX of mobile app/web app. I've a girlfriend who wants to start in this area but is pretty clueless. Can anyone please provide a path to follow? Is this good: 1. Learn UI design in Paint.net/MS Paint 2. Read book on color theory, typography, whitespace 3. Design in dragdrop software like photoshop/illustrator 4. Learn CSS and recreate your design i…

1. Don't use anything Microsoft, use Figma or XD. Figma is free for individuals, and XD is part of Creative Cloud.

2. This is a good start, but if she wants to get into UX she should start by reading articles at Neilsen Norman[0], UX Planet[1], or Interaction Design

3. See #1, although frankly it pays to do wireframes on paper before even touching a mouse/trackpad.

4. I would say at this point that HTML/CSS is a "nice to have" skill. I believe that Figma now contains a basic interaction design suite (i.e. tap, swipe, scroll) that lets you go between different screens.

5. I'd say to stick with learning how/when different charts should be used rather than trying to jump into something like HighCharts or D3.

[0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/

[1] https://uxplanet.org/

[2] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature

Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Post by bpicolo »

InGodsName wrote: post #13
jeremiahlee wrote: post #2

$100M ARR and fully remote!

Is inVision Opensource? How do they prevent source code leak if everyone works remotely?

Remote or not, you typically have to trust employees to not leak your source. Most SaaS companies don't have an issue with employees trying to sell trade secrets to competitors, so they don't need strict controls.

Code exfiltration for trusted employees is as easy as an SCP, an email, whatever. Very few companies have extreme controls around these sorts of thing.

That said, typically remote-only companies will send you a laptop specifically for work that they have control over.

Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Post by jdhn »

reneherse wrote: post #11

Random question for anyone who uses InVision, as we're considering making it central to our process. Is it easy for frontend devs to recreate the designers' prototype in code? What pitfalls should we look out for?

Kind of. My workflow is whiteboarding to Sketch to Invision, and you have to manually select assets for export in Sketch in order for it to show up in Invision. However, this is only or elements such as icons. For elements such as text, you can simply click on it in Inspect mode to view the font family, style, etc. You can also toggle whether you want to view the code in CSS, LESS, SASS, etc.

Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Post by jbob2000 »

reneherse wrote: post #11

Random question for anyone who uses InVision, as we're considering making it central to our process. Is it easy for frontend devs to recreate the designers' prototype in code? What pitfalls should we look out for?

> Is it easy for frontend devs to recreate the designers' prototype in code?

No. The designers have to build the designs in a very particular way in order to get anything useful from invision. Good luck telling your design team that the way they build their sketch files is all wrong.

I have used invision professionally for 2 years now, it is a glorified screenshot host. It's biggest pitfall is that you have to use it in a very particular way, otherwise it's totally useless.

Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

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Post by pixelpp »

jdhn wrote: post #26

If I were Invision, I would either invest in or buy out Figma, and have it replace Invision Studio. Figma is on the up and up, and from what I heard Invision Studio looked good, but the execution was poor.

Yep, it is a fat client with lousy performance. They tried to build Sketch + Principle in the same tool. Both those tools are super complicated software products. They should have created separate tools which complement each other.
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