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Invision must dogfood their own ui design tools, right? The thought of trying to mock up ui changes to their app within their app cracks me up.

by drewrv 8y ago

Waterluvian 8y ago
I've often thought about how tricky/silly it must be to work in some domains using tools of other domains. For example, I work with cartographic data and the darn mathies and programmers stole all our words. So I end up performing a map on a Map of maps. Or managing vector of vector layers. Naming is hard but this is ridiculous. Using mockup tools to make mockup tools probably has its own set of ridiculous collisions.
hn_throwaway_99 8y ago
It just looks like a remote desktop to localhost so you get one of those "mirrors to infinity" views.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  I get this daily on meetings, when someone screenshares Hangouts viewing their screen.
- travisjungroth 8y ago
  This is probably a joke, but you can avoid this by having a pretend application for your mockups instead of the real one. So it would go InVision app > InVision mockup > pretend app.
d0m 8y ago
I think most great products have that recursive iterative cycle.
joejerryronnie 8y ago
My favorite recursive entity is the Stanford Academic Senate’s Committee on Committees. I imagine the inaugural meeting, called to order some time in 1957, is still ongoing to this day.
Umofomia 8y ago
It's not too different from having a C compiler written in C. Once you bootstrap[1] the first version, you can create subsequent versions from the first one. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29
- drewrv 8y ago
  Sure I get that. It's just visually I know that when I'm taking screenshots of app windows, and I have said windows open, I confuse myself sometimes. If I were trying to mockup a mockup app I'd want to use a different, visually distinct, tool.
- mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
  Yea but be careful, I checked out coffeescript years ago (technically a "transpile" to JS). I changed the language then built a new compiler with it. However I apparently added some error in the language and the compiler was then broken, so I couldn't make my fix and re-transpile without checking out a clean version of the repo :D

Invision must dogfood their own ui design tools, right? The thought of trying to mock up ui changes to their app within their app cracks me up.

by drewrv 8y ago

Invision must dogfood their own ui design tools, right? The thought of trying to mock up ui changes to their app within their app cracks me up.

Waterluvian 8y ago

I've often thought about how tricky/silly it must be to work in some domains using tools of other domains. For example, I work with cartographic data and the darn mathies and programmers stole all our words. So I end up performing a map on a Map of maps. Or managing vector of vector layers. Naming is hard but this is ridiculous. Using mockup tools to make mockup tools probably has its own set of ridiculous collisions.

hn_throwaway_99 8y ago

It just looks like a remote desktop to localhost so you get one of those "mirrors to infinity" views.

TeMPOraL 8y ago
I get this daily on meetings, when someone screenshares Hangouts viewing their screen.
travisjungroth 8y ago
This is probably a joke, but you can avoid this by having a pretend application for your mockups instead of the real one. So it would go InVision app > InVision mockup > pretend app.

d0m 8y ago

I think most great products have that recursive iterative cycle.

joejerryronnie 8y ago

My favorite recursive entity is the Stanford Academic Senate’s Committee on Committees. I imagine the inaugural meeting, called to order some time in 1957, is still ongoing to this day.

Umofomia 8y ago

It's not too different from having a C compiler written in C. Once you bootstrap[1] the first version, you can create subsequent versions from the first one. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29

drewrv 8y ago
Sure I get that. It's just visually I know that when I'm taking screenshots of app windows, and I have said windows open, I confuse myself sometimes. If I were trying to mockup a mockup app I'd want to use a different, visually distinct, tool.
mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Yea but be careful, I checked out coffeescript years ago (technically a "transpile" to JS). I changed the language then built a new compiler with it. However I apparently added some error in the language and the compiler was then broken, so I couldn't make my fix and re-transpile without checking out a clean version of the repo :D