Personas are a fundamental part of a UX designer's toolkit-and they help design teams make decisions knowing that they're solving the right problems for the right person. But are they as useful as we think? Do personas create a false sense of security?

So, you've got an idea, and you want your team's feedback. You definitely don't have time to worry about perfect pixels, organizing a beautiful deck, or spot-on colors. You just need to get the ball rolling.

Resources like Facebook's iOS 10 GUI and our suite of plugins, Craft, have been game changers for time-strapped designers looking to supercharge their process. That's why we're so excited to share that Facebook's iOS 10 GUI is now available for Craft.

We recently released Inspect, a free tool that supports your team's design to development workflow like never before. Inspect lets you and the developers on your team generate code with a click, gather key information like font names, hex codes, image specs, and dimensions, and a lot more.

Over the last 3 years, I've worked as a UX design intern at 2 independent advertising agencies and a famous product company based in Australia. As a passionate and young beginner, I learned how to be open to different perspectives-and how I actually didn't know anything at all.

Syncing your design files should be drop-dead simple and lightning fast. That's why we're excited to share a new tool that accelerates your design-to-prototyping workflow, making it even easier to bring your ideas to life. Introducing Craft Sync beta , your fast, simple way to send designs straight to InVision -directly from inside Sketch.

While sitting in a cafe, I notice a really tall guy making his way through the outside area. He's at least 6'6, but he doesn't have to duck under the roof beams. It's interesting how the beams were designed to account for his height, and how everyone's sitting in a chair that fits their back, and they're drinking from cups that fit their hands.

Muzli is a much-loved tool in the design community, used by more than 100,000 designers-including our own!-to inform and inspire them every day. That's why we're beyond excited to share we are welcoming the Muzli team to our InVision LABS family. LABS, our in-house innovation incubator, is behind some of our best tools, like the award-winning Craft plugin suite.

Love Slack? Thank Victoria, BC-based MetaLab, the company that designed the web's most popular corporate chat client from the ground up. They're also known for building TED Connect, Notarize, and many more beautifully designed, highly functional products and apps. We couldn't be more proud to have them as part of the InVision community.

Sketch 39 is here-with a major new feature that'll change the way you approach your design work in Sketch: Group & Symbol resizing. In the past, resizing a group or symbol meant just stretching it out or scaling it up, but now we have 4 different choices for how the layers within a group can behave when the group itself is scaled.

"I want my website to look like Apple." Ever heard a client say something like that during the early phase of a project? What most people don't realize is that companies like Apple employ huge design teams that work with nearly unlimited resources.