Hey Folks,

Here we are in a new year. We ate far too much food over the holidays (per usual) and all got sick (per usual). Thankfully we're all better now and our immune systems are a little stronger? Hopefully? Hope you all had a restful holidays!

Thinking Too Hard

Last week InVision shut down it's collaboration services. While it's probably time (I haven't used InVision in a looooong time), there was a pang of nostalgia with the announcement. There was a time where InVision prototypes were THE THING. Sharing web designs with clients in the early 2010's was sometimes difficult. I had several conversations where a client would open a PDF at full zoom and be like:

InVision prototypes solved that problem by forcing the client to view things at the correct sizes in the correct context. There was also a brief period where the Sketch automated-upload-to-InVision workflow made design sharing nearly seamless... But then it felt like nothing changed for awhile, and when Figma came out we all left and never looked back...

🪦 RIP InVision, I will remember you fondly.

Interesting Web Bits

• AudioEye drops it's suit against Adrian Roselli
• Matthias takes a look at what he considers the most useful CSS features of last year
• Jake explores the SITE vs APP dichotomy and gives us some alternative classifications
• I learned of the existence of this product: Be My Eyes along with someone’s experiences using their new AI features
• This week I learned that you don't actually have to close HTML void elements. I've been closing img tags for yeeeeeears...