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How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#11
I'm gonna be quite pedantic, nitpicking and killjoy-y here, so don't read on if you'll be annoyed by that

>"The entire french community"

seems like a huge exaggeration. input/output is i/o, not io. while that's a relatively small difference, it's enough that without context I'd never read io as input output. also I'd question how much of the French [presumably design?] community at large has even heard of or seen i/o as a symbol for input/output

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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post #12

Magical ass or not, you offer no trial and $94/file -1 file with up to 50 artboards. $124/file - 1 file with unlimited artboards. Hard no from me and my team.

Hard agree. I like the converter idea, but having used similar tools in the past (Avocode and others), there are always some kind of minor but annoying issues. Having a preview or a trial would be good to have to avoid surprises later.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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post #15
post #12

Magical ass or not, you offer no trial and $94/file -1 file with up to 50 artboards. $124/file - 1 file with unlimited artboards. Hard no from me and my team.

Hard agree. I like the converter idea, but having used similar tools in the past (Avocode and others), there are always some kind of minor but annoying issues. Having a preview or a trial would be good to have to avoid surprises later.

Appreciate the honest feedback. We get that a lot actually, if you reach out to our customer support team we can convert a small file for free for you. Our converter literally almost everything, prototyping, components and what not. Maybe we should add a free trial tho.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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post #10

Your site is quite nice and responsive, made me think of Stripe's interface. May I ask what frontend you've built this on? Or really any details of your process of frontend rebuild you'd like to share? The French-speaking populace can take jokes like this, so you're safe. :)

Heya, we've build the site in NextJS using FelaJS and xState. I really can't recommend xState, but we're really happy with NextJS and Vercel in general. Our designer works in Figma and thats were we build the designs first.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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post #15
post #12

Magical ass or not, you offer no trial and $94/file -1 file with up to 50 artboards. $124/file - 1 file with unlimited artboards. Hard no from me and my team.

Hard agree. I like the converter idea, but having used similar tools in the past (Avocode and others), there are always some kind of minor but annoying issues. Having a preview or a trial would be good to have to avoid surprises later.

I have a gripe with all the design tools that don't offer interoperability. You can import Sketch file in Figma, but you cannot export to Sketch.

I understand the reasons behind this decision-making process, but all of this "silo" mentality is pushing me to use more code and less design tools for my clients DS.

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