^ This!!!

EDIT: Just saw the Inspect-link. Guessing this will be what we're hoping for.. Yay!

Hey Dominic! We're really excited for the release of Inspect. We're very actively working on this here internally (in fact we currently have 1000+ folks participating in a closed beta as I type this). Completely agree that this one represents a huge opportunity to further tighten the end to end workflow for designers.

Appreciate your kind comments- very grateful for this community as well, the feedback has been invaluable in helping us determine where to focus.

Joel- would we get to have a trendy power couple name if this happened? SketchVision? InSketch? ;)

All kidding aside- happy to take on a blunt question. As you probably know we’re big fans and users of Sketch. Pieter and the whole team at Bohemian Coding have built an amazing product that has made so many design workflows better. If something like this were ever to happen in the future I think creative independence would be the key.

We’re looking forward to doing even more together around Craft. There’s so much good still to be done with regards to tooling in our shared space.

Hey Chris - Looks like things are lining up for sometime this summer, thanks!

Hey Grady!

Regarding Version Control: we do have an existing 'history' mode within InVision which we're working on a revision to now (how meta is that?). Excited about that as I think it will take this to the next level. Version control is a tricky beast, there are many complicating factors that make it a hard one to nail. I think its in our customers' best interest that we continue to be relentless with our pursuit of refining our syncing controls/systems. Ensuring that these work with as little friction as possible with services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc is a subtle, but high-impact focus that everyone benefits from.

Regarding Slack: Definitely! We love Slack, we use it to run our entirely remote team every single day. Have a couple refinements in the pipeline right now that I think you're really going to like.

Regarding Craft Style Guides: Wouldn't that be great... wouldn't it... its almost as if that would be the perfect fit. ;)

Regarding User Testing: So glad you're enjoying the Lookback integration, we'd love to do more here. Definitely on the radar and would love to see these sort of offerings deepen.

PS- Big fan of Ghostery! Nice work!

Hey Aubrey- good to hear from you my friend!

1) To say were stoked for Craft 2.0 is an understatement. Aby and Andrey built an incredible product in Silver and we’re very excited to have it integrate with InVision. And if the update I just got from the Silver Flows team is any indicator, its going to be much sooner than you might think. We’ll be rolling out a few phases of betas very soon so the community can help us work up to the major point release.

2) We like you too. :) It was awesome getting to meet you in person a couple months ago. And honestly that sort of interaction is the perpetual key towards us staying in sync with the community. Please continue to challenge, question, encourage, and keep us accountable. That passion helps us ensure were working on the most important things.

Hey Jay, I’d love to have you chat with Charles Pearson , (one of our excellent researchers here)- super important that we capture this feedback and look for growth opportunities. I'll have him reach out.

Regarding the uploading specifically, I believe you may have stumbled upon a bug there - it’s meant to let you instantly work with your local images (both as a thumbnail and in the editor) if they are taking some time to upload. I’ll contact support about this, thanks!

Hi Jay. I'm following up on Billy's note -- if you want to chat you can email me at charlespearson .at. invisionapp.com. It'd be great to connect! [And this goes for anybody else who might read this. If you want to chat all things InVision or really, interaction design, reach out!] Thx.

Remote Work Culture - We now have folks all over the world: Prague, Taiwan, Serbia, London, Argentina, Canada, the US and elsewhere. Being a remote company allows us to hire the very BEST people regardless of location. We find that working remotely gives InVision team members authorship over their lives. We place emphasis on outcomes, not physical presence. We use Slack, Google Hangouts, and yes, InVision (dog-fooding is delicious!) to drive our day to day communication here internally.

Design Disruptors Very excited about Design Disruptors. We're currently in the process of producing the musical score for the film and its shaping up nicely. I saw a cut of the film last week and my jaw dropped- the level of quality is seriously high.

Design+ - This event series is such a kick. Our goal has been to facillitate discussion around the most important topics in design today. We've had these events in San Francisco, New York, Austin, and next month will be having one in London. Additionally we've been spinning up Design+Drinks social events all across the world. Our goal is to make these available for everyone in the community to participate regardless of physical location. Its so great to get face-to-face time with one another.

LABS - Our very first LABS release, Craft, went over well. So well, in fact, that its taken on a life of its own. That's exactly what LABS was intended to do- allow us to dream up lofty ideas that are unattached to anything else we've built already and take a stab at producing free, forward-looking solutions. We have several more releases lined up that you'll see hitting under the LABS moniker in the future.

Podcast - Love the idea of this. Its a natural fit for us and we've entertained it for some time. I could see us potentially moving in this direction in the future.

Hey Saul- yes have definitely heard this one before. Continuing to play with concepts around this. I'll have the research team reach out to you if you're game to help provide us with more feedback on what you're looking for here. Shoot me an email at stephen[at]invisionapp.com, and I'll loop you in. :)

Hi Kieran, thanks so much -- it's so fun to take part in this. :)

My expectations and goals for InVision have always been centered around up-leveling creative workflow for product design. That began with us pioneering the rapid-prototyping space, because frankly thats what I needed for my workflow as a designer. Next we moved on to collaboration, because again, we needed tools for better collaborative work as a team.

Every subsequent move has been, in one sense, very organic because our approach has remained the same from the day we started. We ask ourselves "What are the biggest frustration and opportunities facing product teams today?". Then we ask "How can we create a solution that's not just marginally, but fundamentally better?". The acquisitions and partnerships you've seen so far today are a natural way for us to continue addressing these problems at increased speed and creativity -- and there's much more to come :)

We’re trying to push the boundaries in Sketch + Craft everyday. Would love to hear about how you think we could improve the Duplicate tool in Craft. Shoot me an email at billy@invisionapp.com, I’ll even let you keep Rory Jr. :)

Hi Miroslav,

With Macaw, we learned a lot about code-automation. That knowledge will certainly work its way into InVision’s products. With regards to Inspect (InVision’s upcoming code extraction tool), our efforts are currently aimed at helping developers extract code manually, which gives them exactly what they need when they need it. However, that’s just the first step. We see a lot of opportunities to help with the design to dev hand-off and we're exploring things like styles guides and automation. How far we take that really depends on user needs.

So really… What are your needs? What do you hope to see?! ;)

Hey Toby- excellent questions (and tough ones too- I like!)

We are focused on continually evolving the InVision platform into a cohesive suite of tools that drive your entire design workflow. This unending pursuit to better ourselves and our platform only works if we are listening to our customers and taking action accordingly. We have learned a lot (both things to do and things not to do) and will continue to learn from those who have come before us.

Our industry changes so fast. That makes the '5-7 years down the road’ question a difficult one to answer. We believe the BEST companies are adaptable. It’s all about embracing the pivot. As we evolve as designers, the tools should do so as well.

That said, more immediately we’re excited about the release of Motion (better tooling for microinteractions), Inspect (better tools for dev handoff and file speccing) and the evolution of Craft (pushing the boundaries tooling inside your screen design tool of choice). Workflow also represented a significant step forward for us with team collaboration, and theres much more coming on that front. Responsive is always on the radar. Its one of the many reasons we were so pumped to welcome Tom and his team to InVision. They 'get' this aspect of design at the deepest of level and are bringing this perspective/experience to our future endeavors here.

We’ve got a very packed out pipeline that we can’t wait to share with you. Promise we'll continue to drip it out in the coming weeks. :)

Hey Jared - This is a feature rolling out in InVision's Craft Prototyping (formally Silver Flows). I too am excited for this!

Hi Henrique,

Thanks for the question. We're working on a big leap to help manage Sketch and Photoshop files with Inspect. However, there are plenty of other ways we can improve collaboration around a file. It sounds like you may be asking for version control. Is that a fair statement?

Managing design assets has always been a tricky beast and no one has quite nailed it yet. That being said, it's certainly an area we're thinking about as more and more source files are uploaded to the platform.

Any thoughts on what you'd love to see?

Web or native is one of my favorite debates, so thanks for bringing it up!

While I don't have a hard stance on one or the other. I think that we're at an interesting point in the evolution of the browser where functionality that was typically owned by desktop software can now be reproduced in the browser. We're going to continue see desktop apps making a leap into the browser and I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with that transition. It is my belief, however, that certain types of tools benefit most when they exist outside a standard browser.

Performance is the case usually backing native apps and it's certainly one of the most important when supporting intense, creative workflows. However, I think there are tremendous UX benefits that browser-based apps miss out on as well. If you're building an application that people need to have in front of them at random yet extensive intervals throughout their day, your software probably benefits from being on a dock. I look at the browser as a junk drawer and tabs as items in that junk drawer. I throw a ton of junk into it. So does my wife and my daughter and it all gets shuffled around over the course of weeks. Some tools work well in a junk drawer – like a bottle opener. Some tools – like my phone – do not. I need it all day, every day. My phone doesn't go in a junk drawer; it goes in my pocket for quick recall and extended use.

Most of InVision's tools are in the browser because they're centered around collaboration and encourage a rapid workflow. Ideally we get you in and out as quickly as possible, so you can get back to your day. So, I think it really boils down to how a product can you best serve its users. Sometimes things align in the browser. Other times it requires a purely native or even a hybrid solution.

We love Photoshop and Sketch, iOS and Android, Windows and Mac and we continue to strive to support as many platforms and configurations as possible. That said you have to start somewhere and rather than wait for complete parity across platforms we’ve chosen to push out what we have ready as soon as possible. We’re pretty aggressive about building and releasing as fast as possible. We believe designers appreciate those daily/weekly updates with incremental changes vs monthly/quarterly updates with big drops.

You're not alone Tony! Desktop prototypes own a sizable space in InVision. I think we're seeing a larger number of mobile prototyping tools surface because of the importance of micro interactions when designing for mobile (which is also the reason we're building our Motion feature).

We see desktop projects contain a much larger set of screens as the flows tend to be telling a much fuller story, whereas mobile projects are usually focused on just a few interactions.

Appreciate the kind words Nakkeeran!