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Apart from being useful for presentations, Powerpoint is still my go-to for mockups - screw Figma, I can achieve 80% of the result in 20% of the time.

placesalt 3y ago
The geometry available and the frankly very subtly good alignment-snapping that it has makes it very useful. Posters, ERDs, I'm sure there are other applications too.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
  I remember being a bit taken aback when a colleague of mine at a large company where design is a pretty big deal showed me some really good wireframes and told me that he made them in PowerPoint. It’s actually quite a good tool for wireframing
- wholinator2 3y ago
  I had to make an academic poster in PowerPoint and it was the single worst experience of my academic career. The program just didn't work. I got a ways into it, saved and closed my work, and opened it the next day. Upon opening, no longer could i zoom or scroll or really do anything without the view freezing. I could see the scrollwheel on the side moving but nothing on screen would change. It would stay permanently in this state until i closed it out or (thank God) entered and exited presentation mode, which took seconds to load every time. Eventually it's crass refusal to do anything even mildly useful taught me the exact set of eggshells to walk on to have a somewhat usable program but the damn thing just wouldn't work. I tried everything, including uninstalling and reinstalling the entire office suite. Nothing changed. My poster was not complicated and my laptop was school issued and more than capable of running a single PowerPoint slide. I know this is a post of a man's passing. The PowerPoint he built worked. I remember PowerPoint as a usable and fun slide making tool that was usually the highlight of relatively tedious school projects. To see the bug ridden landfill of "BI" "features" it is now is sad. I genuinely spent a day trying to download an old version that wasn't running 3 "ai" processes in the background. It was a simply disgusting experience and i will never use it again.
- m_mueller 3y ago
  For exactly this reason we use it even to create Factsheets and other printable reports. Using selection pane the objects in the template can be named. We then replace the dummy content in an AWS lambda running python-pptx using these references. PowerPoints‘ charts and tables are quite powerful overall. Still not bug-free but way way more stable than Word, and every bug I‘ve seen can be worked around relatively simply.
avs733 3y ago
the ability to drag and drop rearrange, and the ability to have a header and then just body text is really useful for lots of mockups. I think at this point, I've used powerpoint (or equivalent) in place of at least: * word processing software * CAD software * pretty much everything adobe * Xcode * photo software and there are probably other's
zhenyakovalyov 3y ago
ha, i have been on the receiving end of such mockups, quite unfortunately (or sometimes excel). just learn figma common courtesy to your colleagues ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
paradox460 3y ago
When I "worked" at a public access TV channel, we used a big PowerPoint deck for most of the unprogrammed roll. It was pretty simple too. A G4 cube would just have a ppt on loop, and output it's video into the switcher. When you needed to update the roll, you just replaced the file over the network, and reloaded the application. You were supposed to do this when the switcher was showing some other program, but occasionally someone would forget, and a video of the OS X 10.1 desktop would go out on the air. Apparently they used hypercard before PowerPoint, but when Apple pulled the plug, they had to move over

placesalt 3y ago

The geometry available and the frankly very subtly good alignment-snapping that it has makes it very useful. Posters, ERDs, I'm sure there are other applications too.

SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
I remember being a bit taken aback when a colleague of mine at a large company where design is a pretty big deal showed me some really good wireframes and told me that he made them in PowerPoint. It’s actually quite a good tool for wireframing
wholinator2 3y ago
I had to make an academic poster in PowerPoint and it was the single worst experience of my academic career. The program just didn't work. I got a ways into it, saved and closed my work, and opened it the next day. Upon opening, no longer could i zoom or scroll or really do anything without the view freezing. I could see the scrollwheel on the side moving but nothing on screen would change. It would stay permanently in this state until i closed it out or (thank God) entered and exited presentation mode, which took seconds to load every time. Eventually it's crass refusal to do anything even mildly useful taught me the exact set of eggshells to walk on to have a somewhat usable program but the damn thing just wouldn't work. I tried everything, including uninstalling and reinstalling the entire office suite. Nothing changed. My poster was not complicated and my laptop was school issued and more than capable of running a single PowerPoint slide. I know this is a post of a man's passing. The PowerPoint he built worked. I remember PowerPoint as a usable and fun slide making tool that was usually the highlight of relatively tedious school projects. To see the bug ridden landfill of "BI" "features" it is now is sad. I genuinely spent a day trying to download an old version that wasn't running 3 "ai" processes in the background. It was a simply disgusting experience and i will never use it again.
m_mueller 3y ago
For exactly this reason we use it even to create Factsheets and other printable reports. Using selection pane the objects in the template can be named. We then replace the dummy content in an AWS lambda running python-pptx using these references. PowerPoints‘ charts and tables are quite powerful overall. Still not bug-free but way way more stable than Word, and every bug I‘ve seen can be worked around relatively simply.

avs733 3y ago

the ability to drag and drop rearrange, and the ability to have a header and then just body text is really useful for lots of mockups. I think at this point, I've used powerpoint (or equivalent) in place of at least: * word processing software * CAD software * pretty much everything adobe * Xcode * photo software and there are probably other's

zhenyakovalyov 3y ago

ha, i have been on the receiving end of such mockups, quite unfortunately (or sometimes excel). just learn figma common courtesy to your colleagues ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

paradox460 3y ago

When I "worked" at a public access TV channel, we used a big PowerPoint deck for most of the unprogrammed roll. It was pretty simple too. A G4 cube would just have a ppt on loop, and output it's video into the switcher. When you needed to update the roll, you just replaced the file over the network, and reloaded the application. You were supposed to do this when the switcher was showing some other program, but occasionally someone would forget, and a video of the OS X 10.1 desktop would go out on the air. Apparently they used hypercard before PowerPoint, but when Apple pulled the plug, they had to move over