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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

#81

So what? Italian automobile giant Fiat recently turned "FCA", which is the Italian equivalent of "PSSY" It's fine, people joke and then move onto the next TikTok video.

You know this SUV, the Pajero? IIRC they changed its name for the chilean market, because there "pajero" is well established slang that translates roughly to "wanker", but with extra connotations of laziness and weakness.

I presume pajero is slang because “hacer la paja” or “hacer paja” is slang for masterbate. The FCA example is “fica” in Italian? Similar to “figa” in Spanish?

As a foreigner in Spain I really enjoyed learning slang and then speaking inappropriate double entendres[1] - acting innocently as though I had made an honest mistake - entertaining whoever I was talking to.

Or honest mistakes too: I remember being laughed at for saying I was being followed around by a bunch of little penises when I meant to say little chickens.

[1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/double_entendre “The phrase has not been used in French for centuries and would be ungrammatical in modern French”

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#83

My colleague and I are laughing so much right now, thank you very much. I'm in tears. "Tant que ça fait pas de la merde" he just replied, meaning "as long as it's not outputting shit". This is amazing.

well they did say it can transform to any format.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#85
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't mean that type of ass.

double entendre : "A phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo."

The innuendo doesn’t work in French.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#86

Oh don't worry about that. As a Frenchman, I will definitely be delighted if I get my boss to pay for a Cul Magique. If the product is good, it will not matter. Better, we will make jokes about it and say stuff in the scrum meeting like: "today I will work on magically fucking myself. Someones has to do it." Plus you get plausible deniability :)

  today I will work on magically fucking myself
That is Magiculer

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#87
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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.

I think most concerns come a lot from the point of view of trust that the converter does the right thing. If I take a designer XD file, convert it to Figma and give it to a developer for implementation, I want to be sure that they don’t waste billable hours making a wrong gradient or battle some odd masking issue. As a consulting shop, we tried some tools, for example Avocode - but ultimately cancelled it. Tools were usually 95% correct, but because of the remaining 5% we’d end up still paying for the zoo of Figma/Sketch/Adobe/Invision. Oh, and still needed those cause designers would forget to mark assets as exportable and Zeplin can’t pull assets unless that’s done. :)

Sooo, a preview or a trial or some recourse like easier refunds (even back into credits) would be to improve the perception

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#89

There are in fact 2 types of asses that I know of. So, is it a mammal that's magical or a body part?

Forgot: there is a third, but I suppose that's more an english colloquialism than something inherited from some other romance language.
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