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I'm curious, what reasons would lead a company with $100M ARR to seek a funding round for close to their ARR? Are there no other avenues for securing capital that are close to you ARR?
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?
Building a large project feels like building a house of cards. I often run into small but infuriating UX issues inside their app. One example of this is uploading artboards from Sketch using the InVision Craft plugin. Uploading a new artboard that has the same name as a previously uploaded artboard overwrites the original without asking or telling you what happened. I spent way to long trying to figure out why one of my artboards wasn't uploading, and then it took me even longer to figure out where it ended up once I realized the problem. When you have hundreds of screens in a project every upload from Craft starts to feel scary.
These little interactions are all over the app and the amount of frustration they cause becomes exponential over time, like a repetitive strain injury.
I've been an InVision user for a long time and it seems to me that the core features have not improved, but have actually degraded over time. I assume because they put all their resources into Studio.
I hope they use some of this money to improve their core offering. Sketch users aren't going away and I think it would be wise to try and keep as many of them as possible using InVision.
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 "nic…
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.
[edit] Sorry, I typed "Figma" for some reason when I meant to type "Principle."
I know this will sound trite, but this is NOT a startup, and I dont know why the editors techcrunch cant seem to figure that out. > nVision, the startup looking to be the Salesforce of design, has officially achieved unicorn status with the close of a $115 million Series F round, You are no longer a startup when you are on series F
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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.
Worse, they tried to accomplish this not with a Cocoa app (as Sketch and I believe Principle are), but in a heavy Electron app. [edit] Sorry, I typed "Figma" for some reason when I meant to type "Principle."
https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...
Invision must dogfood their own ui design tools, right? The thought of trying to mock up ui changes to their app within their app cracks me up.
It just looks like a remote desktop to localhost so you get one of those "mirrors to infinity" views.
$100M ARR and fully remote!
This is definitely worth highlighting. Why so many businesses are still deluding themselves into thinking that work is better done when cramming people into an office is beyond me. Remote work is still the minority. My hypothesis is that it's actually just covert ego/power/distrust at play because founders and executives like to be able to say they have an office, and they like to see their employees "working." This…
Invision must dogfood their own ui design tools, right? The thought of trying to mock up ui changes to their app within their app cracks me up.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29