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InVision Blog
blog.invisionapp.com · Company blog · on HN since 2014
InVision, a design collaboration company, blogs about product design, design teams at companies like LinkedIn and Zapier, and its own tools.
What HN saysHN commenters mention its Craft plugin for Sketch helping with pattern libraries. Its Zapier interface redesign was also discussed on HN.
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Most-shared posts
- 1A look inside Design at LinkedIn2 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 2Designing an effective sales page2 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3Redesigning Zapier's Interface2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 4InVision for JIRA–Design and development come together2 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 5Library from InVision – Cloud-connected design assets for your team2 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 6Jaco – Creating a tool that records user interactions1 people · 50 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Pull live sites into InVision for development feedback1 people · 9 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
- 8LiveShare PS: Collaborating in real time from inside Photoshop1 people · 9 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
- 9Improving UX with Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling1 people · 7 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 10WeWork’s Bobby Ghoshal and Roee Adler: Scaling Design to Meet Rapid Growth1 people · 7 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Designing Your Life1 people · 7 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12"We design for screens so we need to think on screens." Inside design at Xero1 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 1313 Impressive statistics on user experience1 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 14Designers shouldn't code – they should study business1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Muzli joins InVision LABS1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
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redbonsai · 2016-05-25
Embarking on a similar process at my company, and hit a similar wall using symbols in Sketch. They're great, but are a pain to maintain for a pattern library project.
We had a breakthrough last week when InVision updated their Craft plugin for Sketch to include Library [1]. Well worth a look, we've tried poking holes and it's held up. Syncs seamlessly across Dropbox/etc and allows for on-the-fly updates that go out to the team "magically". Requires education to make sure our junior designers aren't accidentally updating styles cross-team, but outside of that works as advertised. Very impressive for a v1!
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http://blog.invisionapp.com/cloud-connected-design-assets-library/
mikeknoop · 2016-02-01
Zapier co-founder here.
This is seriously the biggest change to our product since launching the company. We've been working on it for a year (including a beta w/ several thousand users) and are very excited to finally release it. Before, Zapier only supported 1-to-1 integrations which limited it's power. Multi-Step Zaps open up a huge array of new power...
- transforming data (like dates, string manipulation)
- executing JS code in between steps (can do manipulation, extra API calls, etc.)
- looking up data inside other apps
- if an item isn't found when looking it up, create it
More details in our release notes: https://zapier.com/blog/workflow-automation/
How we built this: http://blog.invisionapp.com/redesigning-interactive-editor/
I know a ton of folks in the HN community use Zapier. Thank you so much for your support. I can't wait to see what you build now!
brikis98 · 2016-01-23
> I'm quite surprised by this, since to me there's little to disagree about. A "minimum viable product" seems like a very simple description to me.
I've found a lot of confusion about the term. Just a few of the many examples I've read: https://hbr.org/2013/09/building-a-minimum-viable-prod/, http://tynerblain.com/blog/2012/09/11/why-do-products-fail-incomplete-… http://paulkortman.com/2012/11/21/the-problem-with-a-lean-startup-the-… https://medium.com/@maxdunn/when-the-minimum-viable-product-is-not-eno… http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/minimum-viable-product-and-minimal-ma… http://www.svpg.com/minimum-viable-product, http://andrewchen.co/minimum-desirable-product/, http://www.startupblender.com/minimum-viable-product-vs-minimum-deligh… http://blog.invisionapp.com/minimum-viable-product-mutants/, https://validately.com/leancustomerresearch/death-minimal-viable-produ…
Note how many of the articles above try to redefine the phrase to reduce confusion, such as "Minimum Delightful Product" or "Minimum Marketable Product." There is confusion about every part of MVP: what "minimum" means, what "viable" means, and what "product" means.
> If it's not the smallest viable product then how is it a minimum viable product? If it's not a viable product, again, it's not an MVP.
How do you do know if it's "smallest" or "viable"? Walk me through your process.
> If people are going to use the…