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I could tell you stories about how remote work has made my team exponentially more productive, but what would it matter? Anecdata is cheap.

Sounds like you’ve been making the wrong hiring decisions, honestly.

I visited the Ainu Museum in in Hokkaido about five years ago, and at least in that modern day setup they did not treat the bears well. There were two bears in small cages, and for 100 yen tourists could feed them "crackers" through a long metal tube. It was heartbreaking to see.

Hi-Ten Bomberman 8 years ago

I was OBSESSED with this game when I was a kid. Always bummed that it was never ported to anything else, the design style was a lot of fun.

Fun fact: Billy West (Fry from Futurama) did some of the voice acting for this game!

Turtletoy 8 years ago

How are you translating the sketches into files that work with Axidraw? I have one as well and would love to do the same!

Embarking on a similar process at my company, and hit a similar wall using symbols in Sketch. They're great, but are a pain to maintain for a pattern library project.

We had a breakthrough last week when InVision updated their Craft plugin for Sketch to include Library [1]. Well worth a look, we've tried poking holes and it's held up. Syncs seamlessly across Dropbox/etc and allows for on-the-fly updates that go out to the team "magically". Requires education to make sure our junior designers aren't accidentally updating styles cross-team, but outside of that works as advertised. Very impressive for a v1!

[1] http://blog.invisionapp.com/cloud-connected-design-assets-li...

I love this! I could see this being a HUGE timesaver with my workflow.

Question for you: Is working with prototypes offline in your roadmap? I have limited connectivity where I work, and playing with your app has been troublesome.

Thanks!

Definitely agree. My company has been switching over to a centralized version of Bootstrap for our internal applications (over 300 in total, maybe 40 use Bootstrap so far). I oversee the upgrade process, and quickly/easily doing so remains a hurtle I have yet to gracefully overcome.

The best solution I've been able to cook up is adapting their changelog into a step-by step tutorial for developers to use when upgrading, though I'd love to hear any suggestions on improving that process!