After selling their Freehand tool to Miro in November last year, InVision have just announced they'll be shutting down at the end of 2024. It's kind of crazy to see how quickly the rise and fall of a company like this can happen. They had a valuable of over $2billion just a few years ago, I remember when you basically couldn't move in the design world without seeing InVision everywhere. It's not surprising, Figma basically took all the utility away from InVision - and even Sketch has it's own prototyping too these days (but who still uses Sketch anyway?) Still, I think InVision played a big role in modernising design collaboration, so it's kind of a shame we won't see anything else from then again. If you wanna read a bit more, you can check out the announcement from the CEO

This month’s Product Bookclub book is Decisive by Chip & Dan Heath. I'm pretty obsessed with the psychology of decision making, so I'm really looking forward to diving into this one. The book is a deep dive into the process of decision making, exploring common pitfalls and biases that sneak into how we make decisions, and helping you to address them and improve your decision making abilities! _________________________ What’s Product Bookclub? _________________________ As you might have guessed, it's an online bookclub for the members of Product Synthesis - each month I’ll announce a new Product book that I’ll be reading throughout the month, and anyone in the community is welcome to read (or listen) along with me! If you’re like me, and love reading, but don’t have enough people to discuss what you’re learning, then this’ll be perfect for you! We’ll do a mid-way check-in call to discuss our findings, and then I’ll do a live summary where we’ll go deep on the entire book, discuss and reflect on what we’ve learned together. ______ You’ll find the calls scheduled in the Calendar, I’m looking forward to seeing some of you there soon! And, If you’ve got any questions - just drop ‘em below! Cheers, David P.S. Hope you've all been enjoying reading Continuous Discovery Habits - I'm working on the summary right now, looking forward to sharing it later this week!

I had a whole week for reading the book. I didn't even open it. What happened? Like newly awakened patient after a coma I now have three days to finish the book. better get started. 😅😱

Hi friends, so 3 weeks later, here's weekly synthesis #2! 😅 In this one I talk about; - The Figma Micro Keyboard - Some interesting Products from Forbes 30 under 30 - A really exciting AI Framework I can't wait to play with! Still getting to grips with the schedule for this community, so we'll see if this winds up being weekly or not - but in the mean time, have a watch and let me know if you have any feedback or thoughts in the comments below! Have a great week! 👊

Just saw this thing announced on Linkedin. Cool video: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/figma_cmd-g-ctrl-g-your-shortcuts-introducing-activity-7140344800485990400-htX3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Store page: https://store.figma.com/products/figma-creator-micro-keyboard As an owner of an Elgato Stream Deck for triggering macros etc. I'm not sure I see the point though unless this thing can be used for more software than just Figma. Very interesting that the product page has like zero specs, I get that it's a preorder page but come one, what am I really pre-ordering here? What's your take on this?