[HN Gopher] InVision design collaboration services shutdown
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InVision design collaboration services shutdown
Author : devgoth
Score : 66 points
Date : 2024-01-04 16:42 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.invisionapp.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.invisionapp.com)
| robg wrote:
| What do you suggest instead?
| TechRemarker wrote:
| Figma is essentially what destroyed InVision so that is where
| most everyone flocked to for collaboration.
| loceng wrote:
| I think Sketch is maintaining a foothold, no? Avoids forever
| monthly recurring fees, even if they've not caught up yet
| offerings wise.
| patchorang wrote:
| They are not. If I was interviewing somewhere (I work as a
| UX designer) and they were still on Sketch, that be a
| pretty big red flag for me. Using Sketch today would be
| like using Illustrator during the Sketch era.
| roldie wrote:
| It's funny, I also consider it a red flag if they're
| still using Sketch. However, personally, I still want
| Sketch to succeed and return to being a viable option
| loceng wrote:
| You work for big corporate or?
| karaterobot wrote:
| Figma. InVision was always doomed, because it suffered from the
| problem that Figma did everything it did, plus a lot more, and
| it did it all better, with no step where you had to sync
| between the two apps, and you could do it with real-time
| collaboration, and...
| webwielder2 wrote:
| To paraphrase Krusty the Clown, "one day you're the hottest name
| in the design industry, the next you're some schmo working in a
| box factory."
| jamestimmins wrote:
| The speed at which Figma replaced InVision was truly something
| to behold.
|
| I'd love to read a behind-the-scenes story of what it was like
| at InVision during this time.
| ayewo wrote:
| IIRC InVision was losing momentum to Marvel app before Figma
| became popular.
|
| Not sure how Marvel app is faring.
| dannyw wrote:
| I remember sketch!
| eruleman wrote:
| the whole Sketch -> Invision -> Figma pipeline was quick --
| never seen incumbents displaced so quickly.
| mikeryan wrote:
| We will always be beholden to Sketch for finally killing
| off Photoshop as a primary app UI tool. Dear god I'm so
| glad the days of Layer Comps are behind us.
| lelandfe wrote:
| I still remember Bohemian Coding from their Fontcase
| days... those guys sure could make Mac apps.
| Animats wrote:
| Is InVision also exiting the forum software area?
| Andrex wrote:
| That's a blast from the past...
| edgyquant wrote:
| This is what I thought it was as well
| istvanp wrote:
| That's a different company (Invision Power Services). This post
| refers to the design collaboration software company
| (InVisionApp).
| codetrotter wrote:
| The most mindblowing thing is that they still exist.
|
| https://invisioncommunity.com/
|
| I thought everyone just installed cracked pirate copies
| ("nulled", as it was called) of IPB. How are they making
| money? Who is paying them for their software?
| throwup238 wrote:
| cPanel most likely.
| Animats wrote:
| It's software as a service now. They host the forums.
| benbristow wrote:
| Running web software without updates from some unknown
| source doesn't sound like a very good idea. Lots of stories
| out there of communities using "nulled" software which got
| hacked because of a backdoor left in.
| paradox460 wrote:
| Can't say I'm sad to see them go. They always felt like a
| glorified power-point deck to me, and I hated getting mockups and
| designs in InVision, because there was no in-built redline like
| Zeppelin and Figma now have, and the designers I worked with
| often "forgot" to add said redlines. Giving me the raw PSD/AI
| file was preferable
| esafak wrote:
| Do redlines here refer to size measurements, or suggested
| revisions?
|
| https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/781354942292031141
| throwup238 wrote:
| Hopefully not the discriminatory real estate practice!
| jwithington wrote:
| so this is invision shutting down right? i couldn't really tell.
| sciurus wrote:
| Yes. From the FAQ at https://support.invisionapp.com :
|
| > InVision will fully shut its doors shortly after December 31,
| 2024
| aethanol wrote:
| Ha yeah same, this announcement is confusing.
| kokanee wrote:
| Don't worry everyone, it's only the design collaboration
| services
| _the_inflator wrote:
| I remember when we managed to add InVision to the internal list
| of approved apps in a bank after years of struggle with CISO, and
| the moment it was available internally, Figma was suddenly the
| hot stuff, and no one wanted to stick with InVision.
|
| InVision was good, but Figma hit hard.
| mooreds wrote:
| Does mean the entire company is shutting down? It is unclear from
| the post.
| sciurus wrote:
| Yes. From the FAQ at https://support.invisionapp.com :
|
| > InVision will fully shut its doors shortly after December 31,
| 2024
| martinald wrote:
| Seems extremely poor they couldn't have built a bulk export tool.
| The FAQ says documents have to be exported one by one.
|
| Surely wouldn't take that long to create one and would make it a
| lot less painful for users who have bug archives of old stuff
| there they may want to keep.
| nerdponx wrote:
| If you were the decisionmaker in this situation, would you
| build it?
| djur wrote:
| Why wouldn't I?
| kstrauser wrote:
| Role-playing their CFO, "because if we had money for
| projects that don't earn us money, we wouldn't be closing
| down."
|
| Role-playing an enterprise customer, "we'll pay you through
| the end of the year if and only if you mail us a hard drive
| of our content. And if not, we'll pay you through 5PM
| today. Sue us if you don't like it."
| kstrauser wrote:
| > _Is there a bulk export option?_
|
| > Unfortunately, a bulk export is not available, so you'll need
| to export each document one by one. Please note that our Support
| team will not be able to export documents on your behalf.
|
| Ouch.
| jcomis wrote:
| As a designer, it was amazing to how badly invision was unable to
| move beyond their original simple prototyping platform. They were
| way ahead of the curve when they began and simply never did
| anything useful beyond that.
|
| What was even more wild was watching them clearly dump money into
| gimmicks and sales over their product. I worked at a large agency
| during invisions heyday and they were constantly pitching all
| levels of employees on whatever their new thing was, typically
| with sales people flying out for in person visits, buying whole
| office lunches, etc. I prob sat through a dozen pitches in a year
| where literally nothing about their product fundamentally
| improved or changed. People who had no idea what a design system
| was would pitch a half baked "design system manager" or similar,
| but were unable to really talk to any depth about design systems
| or answer questions about gaps in their product. It was very
| clear they would not succeed.
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