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InVision Prototyping Tool [Sponsor]

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Thanks to InVision for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week.

The UI prototyping phase of the design process is crucial to get right. It’s about figuring out how your product will work, and ensuring everyone is aligned before moving into building.

InVision is a web-based prototyping tool that lets you paint an accurate and realistic picture that anyone can understand.

InVision lets you design in your tool of choice. It simply requires .jpg, .png or .gif files. Create them however you want. Take your static files and drop them right into InVision all at once. The bulk uploader makes adding files a snap. Then use the web GUI to draw Hotspots and link them up.

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Leaving Flickr

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Flickr sad

This morning, I said goodbye to Flickr.

It’s sad, really. For years, I spent tons of time on Flickr. I added photos, wrote comments, joined groups and made friends.

No one I used to interact with is there anymore. I don’t upload large photo sets anymore. I don’t visit groups anymore, or read comments or favorite things.

I’m not sure why any of this happened. Sure, things like Instagram helped drive the stake deeper into Flickr’s heart, but Yahoo’s lack of concern with what is its best product is unsettling at best.

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Google Analytics On The Go

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I use Google Analytics to track traffic to (and on) this site. I — like most cool indie hipster bloggers — dislike it, but understand that it is the tracking platform of choice for advertisers, etc., so I stick with it.

I used to use an app called Ego to keep an eye on traffic throughout the day. Ego on the iPhone just shows simple stats — page views, uniques and the like — which is perfect when you just want to monitor things.

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iCloud Boasts 100 Million Users

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Matthew Panzarino:

Today at a Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a keynote presentation in which he addressed working conditions at Apple’s factories in China, as well as the product philosophy of Apple.

He also announced that its syncing service iCloud now has over 100M users. Just last month, Cook said that the service had 85M users, making this a growth of 15M users in 21 days.

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App Recommendation: HelvetiCount

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My favorite iPhone apps are usually the ones that are very limited in scope, but not limited in depth.

Today’s app recommendation falls in to that category.

HelvetiCount is a counter app for the iPhone. Fire it up, and your iPhone becomes one of those old-school thumb counter device thingie. You know, the kind you see old ladies using to count people entering a theatre before a play.

It is kind of hard to explain how this app works better than the developer did on the the website:

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