How to create an interactive demo for desktop apps

An Interactive Demo captures a real product flow and turns it into a clickable walkthrough. By recording your entire screen instead of a browser tab, you can build that walkthrough from a desktop application such as Slack rather than a website.

Why use it

Plenty of the workflows worth demoing happen outside a browser. Recording the entire screen means desktop tools get the same treatment as web apps: the flow is captured once, then edited into a demo viewers can click through at their own pace.

How to record a desktop application demo

1. Go to the Floik homepage and click Create new.
2. Select Interactive Demo, then click Continue.
3. When prompted to choose what to record, select Entire screen, choose the screen, then click Share.
4. In the recording pop-up, click Start recording.
5. Switch to the application you want to record and perform the actions you want to capture. Floik records the full flow.
6. When you're done, return to the Floik tab.
7. In the recording pop-up, click Finish and save recording.

Your recording is ready to edit within a few seconds. From there, add elements and interactions to build out the demo.

Best practices

• Walk through the flow once before you record, so the captured click path stays clean.
• Close notifications and unrelated windows first. Entire screen recording captures everything on the screen you select.
• Pause the recording if you need to set up the next part of the flow, instead of stopping and starting over.
• Keyboard entries aren't captured, so add any typed input manually while editing.