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?
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
#12Hey 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 in CSS.
5. Lean some JavaScript for animation and visualization/charts etc...
Is this a decent path? What software tools/books do you recommend for a new self learning student?
Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F
#13$100M ARR and fully remote!
Is inVision Opensource? How do they prevent source code leak if everyone works remotely?
Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F
#14Their main application is down right now. Bad timing, I guess. (https://status.invisionapp.com/)
Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F
#15Hey 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…
She could probably do #1 on paper or in step #3. I'm using Figma in step #3 recently and like it a lot. Step #2 is critical and ongoing and would be a much longer list of books, I'd think.
Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F
#16Hey 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…
100% not MS Paint or Paint.net...
Tell her to download Adobe XD, it's free right now and that's the standard in the industry.
#3, I wouldn't call that dragdrop but at this point, it'd make more sense for her to learn a vector program for the things that Adobe XD can't do. That would require Illustrator and would be a better use of her time.
For #4 you will have to have a good understanding of HTML to be able to do anything with CSS- that has to be the foundation before she learns CSS.
Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F
#17Random 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?
Well currently their main application is inaccessible, so you have the issue of downtime making it impossible to see anything you've made. Collaboration is cool but even mature applications like GitHub have downtime sometimes that seriously interrupts operations at downstream companies. Always consider this before relying on a service for something core to the business.
Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F
#18Hey 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…
Would suggest learning some usability as well. Don't Make Me Think is a good one. Also, read up on Nielsen Group's publications
Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F
#19I've used invision multiple times for university courses. It's really great how they made an extension to photoshop to render out artboards to generate the screens. My support experience is also quite pleasant. Even just with a single free prototype, it takes a lot of hassle out of making interactive demos when I'm exporting straight out of what is essentially mockup material
Re: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F
#20Random 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.