Thank you InVision.

As I sit here embracing the free time I suddenly find on my hands thanks to the simplicity, power and beauty of InVision I can’t help remember the time when InVision was not in my life, the days of presenting mockups in horrid PDF’s, plain boring jpgs which the client would return only with the comment ‘Everything needs to be bigger’ only to find they were viewing at 66% and oh my do I remember trying to explain how things would work.

My ears were flooded with the words ‘thingy thing’ and phrases such as ‘the box next to the left box on the right’. It was some version of hell. My ears today are simply flooded by the beautiful ping of Mail as comments flood through with no sign of the words ‘thingy thing’ and direct on-screen commenting makes directional descriptions a thing of the past.

The silence and absence of obscenities is not what I am most thankful to InVision for. I’m most thankful to InVision for evolving mockups to prototypes. Making it easy and quick to take flat mockups and inject life into the lifeless beasts (no reflection on my design skills intended). Clients can now click expecting things to happen, move from screen to screen without a manual, feel how their application will work, how users will move, interact and successfully use their product. In a business where enthusiasm is key to building great products, you InVision have created an energy pack where fatigue was once a danger. This is what I’m thankful to InVision for.

I Dribbble.

Thanks to @leedriscoll - I am now a player over at Dribbble.