RIP InVision
https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/invision-design-collaboration-services-shutdown/ I remember being a little baby intern making InVision prototypes from Sketch imports back in the day before the integration. Then having to use Zeplin for annotations and Abstract for version control. Using Principle for animation prototyping and tried my hand at Framer and Origami. Pretty much the only relevant things left are Figma and to a lesser extent Origami for really complex prototyping. I know some folks are still ride or die Axure but I haven’t used it in years and years. Framer has completely pivoted. Even Miro is struggling because of Figjam, although I think Miro is the better product, two of my last companies stopped Miro licenses because of better rates just using Figjam. Only a matter of time until other companies shut down because of Figma.
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InVision was Stone Age compared to Figma. Especially Sketch to InVision. All those pngs. Also neither of those companies made any significant improvements or advancements that users actually wanted. Good riddance.
Origami never really fully caught on either, I’m sure that’ll be folded in a couple years. I’ve seen more people moving to ProtoPie over the last few years. If/when Figma adds a bit more prototyping features the LOE needed to move to another tool just won’t be worth it anymore.
I’m not sure Origami will fold any time soon. Lots of people still use it for very complex mobile prototyping with sensor and haptics and stuff. It’s very strong, and it’s not really meant to make money, either. It’s mostly a Meta tool. But maybe it will be deprecated if/when Figma gets better. Very robust prototyping is honestly one of the last real frontiers for Figma, so I think it’s only a matter of time. They’re probably working on it right now, and I’d imagine Protopie may get its lunch eaten just because of the enterprise scale of Figma.
Yea that was what I was getting at, if Figma adds more advanced prototyping tools like Origami and ProtoPie would be less necessary. I guess I also view origami and axure in the same category in that they are so niche that Figma might not even bother to replace their capabilities anyway.
I dated someone at incision and she cheated on me!! F em!
> I remember being a little baby intern making InVision prototypes from Sketch imports back in the day before the integration. Then having to use Zeplin for annotations and Abstract for version control. Using Principle for animation prototyping and tried my hand at Framer and Origami. Holy shit. That really brought me back. And then there are industry veterans that remember doing this all on photoshop!
Yeah photoshop and illustrator. When sketch came around we thought that was a great improvement with no barrier to entry like Axure. Now I think with Figma it’s the best it’s ever been for teams to collaborate and move design along through customer and stakeholder interactions.
I feel the same and although it sounds like decades ago, but Sketch + InVision + Principle was still the thing around 2017-2018, when I first got into the industry. It’s crazy how things evolved so fast in just a couple of years.
It’s crazy how 2017 was already 7 years ago. Time really flies away from us.
Invision lacked vision. What a useless product it was with shitty animations and so many limitations.
It’s sad that a company who made products for users whose job it is to design for customer needs never focused on design for its customer needs.
They lost their head of design a couple months ago, this makes perfect sense. InVision wants to be something totally different now.
👍🏼 feels the same. Figma truly has disrupted the industry though and they actually listens to their users