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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 anongraddebt »

warent wrote: post #10
jeremiahlee wrote: post #2

$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…

Is there a company, equivalent (or larger) in size to InVision, that is an example of a remote work org.? $100M ARR isn't anything to scoff at, but I'm not sure InVision's success (so far) puts the nail in the coffin to the idea of a non-remote work org.

I'm young and still find it invaluable to be able to walk over to Jane in engineering or Bob in marketing to hash things out in-person.

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

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Post by travisjungroth »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #9
drewrv wrote: post #6

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.

This is probably a joke, but you can avoid this by having a pretend application for your mockups instead of the real one. So it would go InVision app > InVision mockup > pretend app.

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

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Post by warent »

anongraddebt wrote: post #51
warent wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Is there a company, equivalent (or larger) in size to InVision, that is an example of a remote work org.? $100M ARR isn't anything to scoff at, but I'm not sure InVision's success (so far) puts the nail in the coffin to the idea of a non-remote work org. I'm young and still find it invaluable to be able to walk over to Jane in engineering or Bob in marketing to hash things out in-person.

Elastic (ESTC) is another example off the top of my head, and they're public.

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

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Post by drewrv »

Umofomia wrote: post #50
drewrv wrote: post #6

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's not too different from having a C compiler written in C. Once you bootstrap[1] the first version, you can create subsequent versions from the first one. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29

Sure I get that. It's just visually I know that when I'm taking screenshots of app windows, and I have said windows open, I confuse myself sometimes. If I were trying to mockup a mockup app I'd want to use a different, visually distinct, tool.

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

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Post by zackmorris »

Can someone please create Series as a Service (SaaS) to facilitate connecting startups with funding?

InVision is cool and everything, but these funding rounds are on the order of 1000 times larger than what a couple of indie devs need to create similar functionality. I would like to live on a beach, or in a cabin in the woods (preferably both, seasonally) and create software remotely. I also need to be left alone for a year so I can create the next-gen tools in the spirit of Firebase, Elixir etc so I can focus on the work instead of the minutia/infrastructure surrounding it.

Unfortunately after writing this, I realized it's all about the customer base so never mind. Actually, can someone create Customer Base as a Service (CBaaS) to facilitate connecting startups with customers?

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

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Post by daleco »

jbob2000 wrote: post #29
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…

From UX perspective, it's one of the best tools for managing the design process. 1-click to update / push mockups from Sketch. Ability to do light interactive mockups, commenting, and CSS specs.

We've been testing most of the tools on the market (Zeplin, UX Pin, Avocode...). InvisionApp beat all of them.

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

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Post by daleco »

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…

There are two aspects, the tools and the knowledge. What people recommend above will just teach UI (How to build), but not UX (why to build it this way and how to approach the problem).

For the tools, it's like in software engineering, you need pick the your "stack" (which wil depends on the goals and deliverable). Do NOT use Paint / Photoshop to build mockups, you will waste your time and hate your job. Get a Sketch License, find a good tutorial online (Udemy and co).

To master the field, study the fundamentals: cognitive sciences, human factors, cognitive ergonomics and design patterns, the goal is to understand how the brain works, perception, memory, decision making, limits...

Basic computer science is going to give an edge.

Basic knowledge in experiment design will be necessary to test your design with rigor (UX Researcher).

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

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Post by mehblahwhatevs »

Umofomia wrote: post #50
drewrv wrote: post #6

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's not too different from having a C compiler written in C. Once you bootstrap[1] the first version, you can create subsequent versions from the first one. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29

Yea but be careful, I checked out coffeescript years ago (technically a "transpile" to JS). I changed the language then built a new compiler with it.

However I apparently added some error in the language and the compiler was then broken, so I couldn't make my fix and re-transpile without checking out a clean version of the repo :D

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