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by jpxxx 5049 days ago
I like this quite a bit. I had some goofy thing done and upon FB, Twitter, and .PPTX in ten minutes.

It's best described as [Distillate of Keynote: iPad Edition]. The auto-license Creative Commons image siphoner is brilliant. It all looks good without effort. Theme swapping is effortless.

My criticisms as a nobody: the "doodle font" on the overlays showing you what does what is too jaunty and busy for me to read quickly. I had multiple sluggard-hangs on the Deck chooser (iPad 2, ios5) that left me with dead UI requiring a restart. And the first launch experience is just a little too busy to take in. Nothing fatal at all, but I don't feel in control when things are happening with every touch. It feels weird when I can manipulate the screen when the explanatory help overlay is on.

This is really good work, and it has succeeded in making Keynote look fussy. Thank you!

2 comments

Thanks, glad you like the image search (it was a lot of work!) :) Sorry for the issues on the deck chooser, I've been meaning to re-write that for a while and will bump it up the list. I actually just added in a new first-launch experience, and I'm cleaning up a bug with those overlays, will be available in the next update.
Overall nice.

"Me too" on the multiple hangs requiring restart. Also seemed to have trouble making the help overlay go away: no tapping/swiping/pinching seemed to work; if it's timeout based it's too long.