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Keynote is hands down the best designed piece of software I’ve ever used. Who the hell crafted that level of care into the UX of a presentation app I do not kno

Keynote is hands down the best designed piece of software I’ve ever used. Who the hell crafted that level of care into the UX of a presentation app I do not know but it is absolutely next level. It is almost _perfect_. I use Keynote all the time and there are exactly two flaws I’ve noticed, which is insane. (One is a bug when clicking the colour palette sometimes deselects the selected object: the other is that you can’t start with a rectangle and change it to a rounded rectangle) If anyone from the Keynote team reads this, I just want to say - you are absolute heroes.

armadsen 1y ago
I’m a Mac developer and when asked always say that my favorite app of all time is Keynote. It’s just so, so well done, and the epitome of a great Mac app. Would that all software had so much care for UX put into it.
abdullahkhalids 1y ago
If you are presenting over zoom, you ideally want to put your full screen presentation on one screen (which is shared), and put the zoom screen on the other. So you know who is talking. Maybe look at chat. Keynote, on a dual monitor setup, will takeover both screens, and will not allow something like the above. No options to disable dual screen usage. 5 years post-pandemic, after millions of presentations given over zoom, probably thousands given by Apple's own engineers, this is still not fixed. Even if I make a presentation in keynote, I export to PDF.
- saagarjha 1y ago
  Pretty sure Keynote will let you run the presentation in a window which you can full screen
- quackzar 1y ago
  And if monitor space is a premium or you don't have a second one you can use something like Deskpad (https://github.com/Stengo/DeskPad https://github.com/Stengo/DeskPad) to create a virtual one a window. This is also practical if you want to have the speaker view up.
- rhubarbtree 1y ago
  Just present within the window, you’ll need to enable that option.
saagarjha 1y ago
I mean it's nice and all but it takes me forever to make presentations in it

armadsen 1y ago

I’m a Mac developer and when asked always say that my favorite app of all time is Keynote. It’s just so, so well done, and the epitome of a great Mac app. Would that all software had so much care for UX put into it.

abdullahkhalids 1y ago

If you are presenting over zoom, you ideally want to put your full screen presentation on one screen (which is shared), and put the zoom screen on the other. So you know who is talking. Maybe look at chat. Keynote, on a dual monitor setup, will takeover both screens, and will not allow something like the above. No options to disable dual screen usage. 5 years post-pandemic, after millions of presentations given over zoom, probably thousands given by Apple's own engineers, this is still not fixed. Even if I make a presentation in keynote, I export to PDF.

saagarjha 1y ago
Pretty sure Keynote will let you run the presentation in a window which you can full screen
quackzar 1y ago
And if monitor space is a premium or you don't have a second one you can use something like Deskpad (https://github.com/Stengo/DeskPad https://github.com/Stengo/DeskPad) to create a virtual one a window. This is also practical if you want to have the speaker view up.
rhubarbtree 1y ago
Just present within the window, you’ll need to enable that option.

saagarjha 1y ago

I mean it's nice and all but it takes me forever to make presentations in it